marseille 1 - 3 barcelone95 (384947373)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 24588 to LE BASTION e LA BOMBANERA. Mikko Korhonen was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Raoul Meijers and Martin Tungström. marseille tactics involved an interesting 4-3-3 combination. They fielded: Greenfeld - Hubli, Conceição, Kaibinger, Inderkum - Gisi, Boari, Estrader - Häuselmann, Kreider, Antenen.

barcelone95 decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. Starters: Pasteur - Nawrath, Marin, Mañas, Hoogstraal - Leszczuk, Rossbacher, Ilyin, Sáez Gutiérrez - Garofalo, Maillinger.

Counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of marseille. With 33 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. G. Maillinger put the ball away for 0 - 1. Some fine movement on the left led to a barcelone95 goal after 35 minutes, making it 0 - 2. G. Maillinger was noted down as the scorer. After this, you could see that the players of barcelone95 were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. I. Hoogstraal of barcelone95 received a yellow card after 37 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. The home team's supporters got excited again when L. Boari broke through the visitors' central defence and caught their keeper off guard, making it 1 - 2. 1 - 2 was the score after the first half. marseille had most of the ball, with 51 percent of possession.

A. Leszczuk neatly controlled the ball after a short corner, and knocked it on to R. Ilyin who had the whole net open before him, but only managed to hit the post. After 63 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Ó. Sáez Gutiérrez who increased barcelone95's lead to 1 - 3. barcelone95 had to manage with a reduced squad after 71 minutes, as G. Maillinger got sent off for a needless foul away from the game's action. G. Kreider tried to get a goal back for marseille but despite all his hard work down the right, he just couldn't complete the move. Neither team were able to dominate possession this half.

marseille's best player was G. Kreider. L. Greenfeld on the other hand, had a terrible day. A. Marin performed admirably for barcelone95. P. Pasteur was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 3.