Frimens 4 - 0 real#1 (388052312)

Clouds darkened the skies at Frimens Arena as 12000 spectators turned up for the match. Mika Mannermetsä was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Aksels Dudarevs and Mircea Sandu. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Frimens. Starters: Bondarenko - Kirichenko, Koperzhynskiy, Podorin, Kolobaev - Chelnokov, Parakhin, Sobol, Pushkarev - Lesnov, Chyryev.

real#1 tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. They fielded: Ezerskiy - Pavlyk, Malkov, Chubko, Serebrennikov - Kobzar, Tyurin, Cherepovskiy, Logunov - Suhina, Vubuyzub.

4 minutes into the game, E. Suhina had a great chance to put his team ahead, but his kick from the left went wide. real#1's I. Tyurin was shown a yellow card after 17 minutes for slicing down an opponent. 29 minutes were showing on the scoreboard when real#1's I. Tyurin received his second yellow card and was sent off. With 31 minutes played, Frimens's well-worked indirect free kick caused havoc in the penalty area, and when the ball eventually fell to D. Chelnokov he gleefully slotted the ball home to make it 1 - 0. N. Malkov of real#1 was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. Frimens solidified their lead at the 36 minute mark, as T. Koperzhynskiy dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 2 - 0. 2 - 0 was the score after the first half. Possession in this half belonged to Frimens, who controlled the ball 65 percent of the time.

V. Lesnov should probably have put his team up another goal after 49 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by D. Ezerskiy kept the visitors in the game. After 58 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by D. Chelnokov might have resulted in another goal for Frimens. However, D. Ezerskiy made a spectacular save. real#1's I. Kobzar refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 66 minutes. Frimens showed their counterattack skill 68 minutes into the match by breaking through the middle, with V. Lesnov scoring uncontested for 3 - 0. Cheers filled the stadium as S. Podorin broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 4 - 0 to Frimens. The players of Frimens now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Frimens, with 65 percent of the ball.

The most dominating Frimens player was without a doubt S. Podorin. On the other hand, M. Bondarenko's play was disheartening. real#1's top performer was clearly I. Vubuyzub. However, D. Ezerskiy made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 4 - 0.