hu-n 1 - 4 taiheita (386936097)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 27644 had shown up at hu-n Arena for the match. Kirill Veselkov was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Konrad Sitkiewicz and Jonas Tegby. hu-n decided to use a 2-5-3 set up. The following players had been chosen: Correa - Szolnoki, Chasco Lafuente - Epifani, Manasco, Campara, 山田 (Yamada), Leue - 井上 (Inoue), 加藤 (Kato), Makino.

A 5-4-1 alignment was the formation of choice for taiheita. They fielded: Mota Souza - Sunesson, Christiansson, 鈴木 (Suzuki), Luciano, Halberstad - Depotter, Liukkonen, Ahonen, Araujo - Meléndez.

Today, hu-n's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. The wings were the focus of most of taiheita's attacks today. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave E. Meléndez from taiheita a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 12 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! With 19 minutes played, the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as A. Makino flipped the ball in after a cross from the right. 春. 鈴木 (Suzuki) hit the corner kick straight to the keeper, but it was mishandled, giving taiheita's J. Ahonen an easy chance to knock it in for 1 - 1. This was a good period for the visitors, with several opportunities to take the lead, particularly when 春. 鈴木 (Suzuki) slipped through the defence on the right to come up alone against L. Correa, but the home side's keeper showed his lightning reflexes. Players in taiheita heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. With 35 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. T. Christiansson put the ball away for 1 - 2. The visitors nearly scored again after 38 minutes, but a superb save by L. Correa kept M. Liukkonen's free kick out of the net. The referee showed taiheita's M. Liukkonen the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. A loud groan was heard from the fans of hu-n, as L. Correa left the pitch in too much pain to finish the match. 康. 山崎 (Yamazaki) took his place on the field. It was 1 - 2 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to taiheita, who controlled the ball 53 percent of the time.

With 60 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed T. Christiansson of taiheita to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 1 - 3. taiheita's D. Depotter was shown a yellow card after 63 minutes for slicing down an opponent. The player down was G. Manasco. The hu-n bench looked worried for a while, but in the end he managed to get up. After 67 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for M. Liukkonen who increased taiheita's lead to 1 - 4. A. Makino tried to get a goal back for hu-n but despite all his hard work down the right, he just couldn't complete the move. A. Makino charged down the left and looked sure to score for hu-n 79 minutes into the game, but his shot went just wide. taiheita enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 55 percent of possession.

hu-n's best player was 勇. 井上 (Inoue). 康. 山崎 (Yamazaki) turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating taiheita player was without a doubt E. Meléndez. R. Mota Souza on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 1 - 4.