surfli 1 - 2 PALMINHA (386334138)

18839 spectators arrived at Oliveira Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Konsta Witting was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Radolph Kleiss and Saturnino Necochea. surfli started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Bergen - Montes, Kravianský, Nogues, Boffi - Marquier, Pieniak, Romero Gutiérrez, Picchi - Uliano, De Brabandere.

PALMINHA had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Iordan - Cardeira, Gadelha, Marchante - Marchel, Mleczek, Poccis, Menegatti, Oconnor - Bratsberg, Barbarà.

Today, surfli's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. The wings were the focus of most of PALMINHA's attacks today. Attacking on the wings was the choice for PALMINHA, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. The guests took the lead 21 minutes into the match, after a right-side attack resulted in T. Gadelha scoring to make it 0 - 1. 36 minutes into the game, PALMINHA worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. surfli's M. Boffi put his head to a well placed ball, lifted in from the left, and scored to make the score 1 - 1 with 38 minutes showing on the scoreboard clock. PALMINHA's M. Poccis was shown a yellow card after 39 minutes for slicing down an opponent. PALMINHA had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. It was 1 - 1 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by PALMINHA, with 60 percent of the ball.

After 64 minutes, the surfli coach wanted to see a new face on the pitch, waving P. Romero Gutiérrez off the field. V. Slunksnis took his place. As the 70 minute mark approached, the surfli coach decided it was time for a substitution. T. De Brabandere reluctantly made way for M. de Lima on the pitch. J. Marquier would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise. Ó. Marcelo entered the game for surfli as the match clock showed 71 minutes. Many thought W. Picchi ought to have been awarded a penalty 72 minutes into the game, as he went down trying to dribble around P. Iordan after a determined run through the middle. 74 minutes of the match played, and a comedy of errors by the home side gave the visitors a chance at the lead, but D. Oconnor, after finding himself dashing down on goal from the left with only the keeper to beat, sliced his shot horribly wide. 1 - 2 was the score with 75 minutes played, after M. Poccis cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for PALMINHA. With 80 minutes of the game having been played, M. Boffi received a blow to the hip in a collision and was unable to continue. surfli, with no available replacements, now faced the prospect of finishing the game with a reduced number of players. Possession in this half belonged to PALMINHA, who controlled the ball 69 percent of the time.

surfli's best player was K. Kravianský. J. Montes was a disappointment, however. Most important PALMINHA player was L. Marchante. However, D. Oconnor made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 1 - 2.