Gerlafingen 0 - 3 Egluse (384983984)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 14186 had shown up at pickpay for the match. Rumen Velchev was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Henning Anders and Hakký Çanga. Gerlafingen started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Starters: Yiğit - Parisod, Jončas, Duvillard, Lavatelli - Landert, Socher, Gregorio, Nareyka - Ottolini, Martinho.

Egluse tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Geider - Zarpas Payá, Freihofer, Lanata - Åhskog, Staicu, Pappaert, Callejas, Price - Drakstedt, Bellazzini.

Gerlafingen immediately set off using their skill at pressing their opponents. Egluse's L. Staicu managed to lose the defenders as he advanced down the right wing and scored, putting the visitors ahead after 3 minutes. 0 - 1. Egluse increased their lead after 6 minutes when D. Pappaert broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 2, much to the home crowd's dismay. After this, you could see that the players of Egluse were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. 19 minutes into the game, L. Staicu had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came T. Timmins. With 25 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed E. Drakstedt of Egluse to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. 0 - 3 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Egluse, with 59 percent of the ball.

A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from D. Pappaert after 48 minutes, and prevented Egluse from going up another goal. There was concern in the stands when, at the 60 minute mark, Gerlafingen's P. Gregorio hit the ground hard, but he refused the attention of the trainer and rejoined his teammates on the pitch. Gerlafingen's ability to press all over the field frequently paid dividends. M. Bellazzini was, after 73 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the centre, but the home side's keeper N. Yiğit made the save. Egluse enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 60 percent of possession.

Gerlafingen's top performer was clearly T. Socher. On the other hand, N. Yiğit's play was disheartening. Egluse's best player was E. Drakstedt. O. Geider on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 3.