marine 10 - 0 blacks@hikaru. (386938276)

Dark skies made the crowd of 39084 at marine nerima stadium a little nervous, but the rain held off. Petri Äyrälä was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Peter Öhrsjö and Gatis Kazenieks. marine decided to use a 4-5-1 set up. Starters: Anami - Kuajara, Keehner, Kronbeck, Li Lai - Yew Ho, Janis, Polito, Bachhuber, Oivanen - Grabatin.

blacks@hikaru. tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. They fielded: 有光 (Arimitsu) - 立石 (Tateishi), 坂元 (Sakamoto), 片渕 (Katabuchi), 佐野 (Sano) - 竹田 (Takeda), 添田 (Soeda), 小川 (Ogawa), 西口 (Nishiguchi) - 明石 (Akashi), 隅田 (Sumida).

The home side put themselves ahead 1 - 0 after 13 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from E. Polito, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. blacks@hikaru.'s 秀. 隅田 (Sumida) was shown a yellow card after 21 minutes for slicing down an opponent. There was concern in the stands when, at the 25 minute mark, marine's N. Bachhuber hit the ground hard, but he refused the attention of the trainer and rejoined his teammates on the pitch. After 26 minutes, H. Grabatin put marine ahead 2 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. A well-executed free kick by C. Keehner after 27 minutes made it 3 - 0 for marine. By now, the players in marine felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. marine's R. Kuajara increased the lead to 4 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 30 minutes. marine increased the lead as W. Yew Ho struck to make the score 5 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. It was 5 - 0 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by marine, with 89 percent of the ball.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. H. Grabatin squirmed through their central defence after 48 minutes, increasing the lead to 6 - 0. H. Grabatin should probably have put his team up another goal after 66 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by 一. 有光 (Arimitsu) kept the visitors in the game. Cheers filled the stadium as E. Polito broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 7 - 0 to marine. marine managed to extend their lead to 8 - 0 when B. Janis cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. marine's H. Grabatin proved that he's been around on a football pitch before, when he took advantage of a few moments of confusion in the opposition's defensive line and elegantly scored for 9 - 0. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for H. Grabatin. After 89 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and B. Janis gave the marine supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 10 - 0. marine claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 90 percent.

The most dominating marine player was without a doubt E. Polito. E. Oivanen on the other hand, had a terrible day. 秀. 隅田 (Sumida) performed admirably for blacks@hikaru.. On the other hand, 優. 片渕 (Katabuchi)'s play was disheartening. The match ends 10 - 0.