Buchholz 2 - 3 Dresden (384481974)

Clouds darkened the skies at Estadio da Luz Buchholz as 17835 spectators turned up for the match. Andrea Bleve was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Lorenzo Meccio and Sil Drieman. Buchholz started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. They fielded: Priest - Wimpassinger, Daniel, Gyllenander, Orloff - Spoerr, Sirgo, Revheim, Bellmann - Goldfuß, Pingel.

A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Dresden. The following players took the field: Giger - Vedel, Cortés - van Oers, Meerfeld, Petrowski, Le Gouic, Evert - Palacín, Blackwell, Anisimov.

It was an obvious ambition of Buchholz to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. Dresden tried to focus their attacks down the middle. 17 minutes into the game, Buchholz seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to passable. Attacking on the wings was the choice for Buchholz, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. With 31 minutes played, the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as K. Pingel flipped the ball in after a cross from the right. The head of J. Blackwell connected with a corner kick after 32 minutes, and the ball ended up with Z. Petrowski of Dresden who blasted the ball into the net, making the score 1 - 1. After 33 minutes, Dresden's P. Le Gouic made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 1 - 2. After 34 minutes Dresden nearly put themselves up another goal from a penalty taken by F. van Oers, but the keeper made an unbelievable save. After 38 minutes Dresden's G. Giger had to be carried off on a stretcher in agony. B. Zineder came in to replace him. 1 - 2 was the halftime score. Buchholz enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 58 percent of possession.

Despite his frustration resulting in the smashing of a few teacups, the coach of Buchholz was able to get his message across, and raised Buchholz's organisation to solid. After 49 minutes, F. Spoerr got through on the right and was very close to equalising for the home side, but didn't get the shot away. After 50 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as Buchholz found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to passable. Buchholz's D. Orloff placed the ball right at his teammate's feet after a corner, but N. Daniel couldn't finish. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defence 72 minutes into the match, an alert H. Bellmann bagged the ball for Buchholz, levelling the score to 2 - 2. A mistake by the home side's central defence after 82 minutes allowed J. Palacín to score for Dresden. The scoreboard now read 2 - 3. Dresden's M. Vedel refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 86 minutes. Buchholz had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

The most dominating Buchholz player was without a doubt K. Pingel. F. Priest turned in a dismal performance, however. Dresden's top performer was clearly J. Blackwell. However, Z. Petrowski made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 2 - 3.