PasionAzulgrana 0 - 13 Olimpia (386841076)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 12000 at LA TRINCHERA today. Florian Lebeau was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Björn ''Muppa'' Knutsson and Gian Piero Genovesi. PasionAzulgrana tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Starters: Millan - Heurich, Alegre, Sandoval, Osorio - Ramoa, Seisdedos, Pineda, Candia - Lamas, Maidana.

Olimpia decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players took the field: Lõvi - Riesco, Ayachi, Hölsö - Lepiller, Neumer, Falagiani, Lovera, White - Aranda, Manciu.

Today, Olimpia's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. 0 - 1 was the score with 13 minutes played, after D. Lovera cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for Olimpia. Players in Olimpia heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. M. White of Olimpia took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 19 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 2. Confident in their lead, Olimpia's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. S. Manciu increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 3. PasionAzulgrana's G. Heurich left the field after 23 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was I. Da Silva. A drive down the left side allowed H. Ayachi to get in close and score another goal for Olimpia after 24 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 4. The corner kick from H. Ayachi was powerfully met by the head of F. Neumer to make the score 0 - 5. Olimpia made it 0 - 6 as S. Manciu got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to A. Hölsö who whipped a low drive in off the far post. Some fine movement on the left led to a Olimpia goal after 41 minutes, making it 0 - 7. H. Aranda was noted down as the scorer. It was 0 - 7 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Olimpia, with 74 percent of the ball.

Attacking on the wings was the choice for Olimpia, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. The home crowd was not impressed when I. Riesco came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 59 minutes. Olimpia were now up 0 - 8. The coach of Olimpia was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 67 minutes, E. Alberdi came on for D. Lovera. After 70 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed M. Falagiani to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 9. With 73 minutes played, M. White of Olimpia fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. 83 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 10 as F. Neumer finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. C. Lamas of PasionAzulgrana was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. 85 minutes into the match, Olimpia's M. White demonstrated his famed speed as he raced past his marker and passed the ball to H. Aranda who chipped it in for 0 - 11. 86 minutes into the game, Olimpia were awarded a penalty and H. Ayachi was able to increase the visitors' lead to 0 - 12 rolling the ball in by the right post. Olimpia increased their lead after 88 minutes when H. Aranda broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 13, much to the home crowd's dismay. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for H. Aranda. Olimpia claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 80 percent.

PasionAzulgrana's best player was I. Da Silva. On the other hand, M. Sandoval's play was disheartening. Olimpia's top performer was clearly S. Manciu. E. Alberdi turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 0 - 13.