Clear skies welcomed the 58827 spectators who had made their way to
Orenteam Arena.
Rodolphe Murat was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Alejandro Rubio and
Balthasar Schaus.
Orenteam started off with a 3-5-2 lineup.
The following players took the field: Anderland - Smutje, Olmos Ribas, Alexandrov - Kapović, Savinov, Delplanque, Firsov, Galán - Eulash, Cavedoni.
A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for shurff.
Lineup: Fillipov - Kudimov, Vergara, Palachev - Lapko, Burdeyniy, Presnov, Durigon - Miskov, Petrushov, Kabitov.
shurff clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle.
E. Alexandrov caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 15 minutes. This gave Orenteam the 1 - 0 lead.
Cheers filled the stadium as
S. Olmos Ribas broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 2 - 0 to Orenteam.
The referee showed shurff's
L. Presnov the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.
Orenteam's
S. Olmos Ribas increased the lead to 3 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 34 minutes.
Confident in their lead, Orenteam's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it.
It was 3 - 0 at the break.
Orenteam had most of the ball, with 71 percent of possession.
Orenteam increased the lead as
S. Olmos Ribas struck to make the score 4 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper.
This third goal completed a hattrick for
S. Olmos Ribas.
Orenteam managed to extend their lead to 5 - 0 when
A. Delplanque cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper.
After 81 minutes a well-practised indirect free kick routine by Orenteam was easily anticipated by the defenders. The players forward were so well marked, they were left with few viable options.
Orenteam were given a gift! The ref dubiously awarded them a penalty 84 minutes into the match, which was neatly put away by
M. Eulash. 6 - 0 for the home side.
Possession in this half belonged to Orenteam, who controlled the ball 70 percent of the time.
The most dominating Orenteam player was without a doubt
B. Cavedoni.
On the other hand,
H. Smutje's play was disheartening.
shurff's best player was
D. Miskov.
N. Kudimov was a disappointment, however.
The match ends 6 - 0.