ksg 4 - 1 GUNNERS (387334248)

The crowd of 22807 turning up at ksg sa Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Daniel Antunes was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Vestas Ajutis and Franklin Liles. ksg started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Labarca - Lauman, Sillberg, Insinga - Szozda, Robinstein, Konecko, Orbek, Braidotti - Szarata, Bruins Slot.

GUNNERS tactics involved an interesting 2-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Nonato - Safatli, Błazik - Sinapoy, Urbański, Danik, Panchenko, Gawryszewski - Paris, Izutarregui.

Today, ksg's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. Some great play up the middle by ksg led to a chance for J. Szozda to score after 8 minutes, but the shot hit the crossbar. 11 minutes into the game, A. Safatli had a great chance to put his team ahead, but his kick from the left went wide. They were singing the praises of M. Orbek 12 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 1 - 0 to ksg. After 19 minutes GUNNERS's B. Paris contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game. 20 minutes into the game, GUNNERS had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to passable. It was a bad day for the usually speedy B. Paris. The mud seemed to slow him down. A great save by keeper I. Nonato after 26 minutes kept the visitors in the game after H. Konecko struck from the left with a real cannonball. The corner kick from H. Konecko was powerfully met by the head of T. Sillberg to make the score 2 - 0. 2 - 0 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by ksg, with 59 percent of the ball.

During the break, GUNNERS's coach went through the team's tactics yet again, getting them up to solid organisation. The boggy pitch disrupted the game, especially for technical players like J. Danik. 56 minutes into the match, GUNNERS replied and reduced the lead to 2 - 1. J. Danik scored on a marvellous cross pass coming in from the left. After 61 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as GUNNERS found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to poor. ksg's F. Braidotti increased the lead to 3 - 1, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 63 minutes. With 64 minutes played, B. Paris of GUNNERS fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. After 70 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by W. Szarata might have resulted in another goal for ksg. However, I. Nonato made a spectacular save. ksg put themselves up 4 - 1 when T. Bruins Slot broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. After this, you could see that the players of ksg were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. ksg had most of the ball, with 62 percent of possession.

ksg's best player was D. Insinga. T. Bruins Slot on the other hand, had a terrible day. B. Urbański performed admirably for GUNNERS. J. Danik was a disappointment, however. The match ends 4 - 1.