Olympique 0 - 0 Seeland (384881963)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 35927 to Stade Olympique. Ben Schwengeler was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Bujor Oancea and Hortencio Hermosillo. Olympique had chosen a strategic 5-4-1 formation. Lineup: Pelliccia - Guissani, Debuyser, Schaffner, Piltonen, Heuscher - Grassmann, Virpiranta, Broos, Albicker - Thurnherr.

Seeland tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Kometter - Junghans, Reineck, Adler - Clavuot, Mendenau, Calmy-Rey, Glassner, Abbt - Leobruni, Autenrieth.

For their match strategy, Olympique had decided to use their ability to counter-attack whenever possible. After 11 minutes, following yet another great corner, G. Thurnherr's flick on at the near post reached A. Albicker, who was just wide with his snapshot - the ball went out for a goal kick. Seeland had to make a substitution after 14 minutes. A. Junghans limped off the field and was replaced by P. de Diesbach. 0 - 0 was the halftime score. Seeland claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 51 percent.

60 minutes into the match, the referee signalled for a Olympique substitution. N. Rohner came on for G. Thurnherr. Some great play up the middle by Olympique led to a chance for N. Rohner to score after 67 minutes, but the shot hit the crossbar. At 84 minutes played, N. Rohner came in from the right with the intention of giving Olympique the lead, but his rocket of a shot rattled the crossbar. Possession in this half belonged to Seeland, who controlled the ball 53 percent of the time.

Most important Olympique player was N. Rohner. H. Debuyser on the other hand, had a terrible day. Seeland's best player was E. Autenrieth. However, P. de Diesbach made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 0.