Dark skies made the crowd of 24820 at
Hexenkessel a little nervous, but the rain held off.
Nand Verhage was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Florentin Vieru and
Maxime Fix.
mirdochwurscht had chosen a strategic 4-3-3 formation.
They fielded: Ðorđević - Schmidt, 翊霖 (Yilin), Hefel, Vrkić - Borenitsch, Ernst, Fromm - Lorenz, Franz, Trimmel.
A 5-3-2 alignment was the formation of choice for 1.blau.
The following players had been chosen: Park - Kummer, Unterweger, Seibt, Madlener, Kulovits - Hirzer, Schleimer, Zechner - Reder, Schrøder.
mirdochwurscht clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle.
1.blau were relying on their ability to counter-attack.
J. Ernst gave mirdochwurscht the lead as he successfully challenged the guests' central defenders, then slotted the ball into the bottom corner, giving the keeper no chance. 1 - 0
mirdochwurscht had a magnificent opportunity after 11 minutes as
M. Hefel hit the ball hard from the edge of the penalty box. However, the shot went wide.
I. Vrkić was the first to reach the corner kick, but his header was blocked by the keeper. However, mirdochwurscht's
A. Fromm managed to get hold of the rebound and tucked the ball into the empty net. 2 - 0
mirdochwurscht's
D. Schmidt had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 32 minutes having been played.
O. Nyúl was the replacement.
After several obvious shirt pulling incidents,
R. Franz got himself booked. The manager of mirdochwurscht was not happy.
It was 2 - 0 at the break.
mirdochwurscht claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 66 percent.
Things were going to get worse for the visitors.
S. Lorenz squirmed through their central defence after 69 minutes, increasing the lead to 3 - 0.
After 69 minutes, the mirdochwurscht players received new instructions from their manager on how to keep in control of the game.
Confident in their lead, mirdochwurscht's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it.
A great save by keeper
W. Park after 80 minutes kept the visitors in the game after
R. Franz struck from the left with a real cannonball.
80 minutes into the match
罗. 翊霖 (Yilin) put mirdochwurscht ahead 4 - 0 with a truly marvelous free kick.
1.blau's
F. Schleimer got himself booked for a foul.
Cheers filled the stadium as
S. Lorenz broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 5 - 0 to mirdochwurscht.
A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in mirdochwurscht's
M. Hefel increasing the lead to 6 - 0.
mirdochwurscht enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 69 percent of possession.
mirdochwurscht's best player was
R. Franz.
However,
J. Ernst made a disastrous appearance.
The most dominating 1.blau player was without a doubt
B. Hirzer.
On the other hand,
G. Zechner's play was disheartening.
The match ends 6 - 0.