Nieuwe 8 - 0 brkic (388668977)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 21439 had shown up at De Tempel-ier for the match. Arnaud Aufrère was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Mickaël Belaud and Juan Izubejeres. Nieuwe tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. The following players had been chosen: Skandalidis - Tamagnone, Livoti - Orenstedt, Fontaine, Baudart, Kerkhofs, Kamin - Roš, Balestiero, Voytekhovskiy.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for brkic. The following players took the field: Pairault - Clinckspoor, Kabbaj, Roppe, Schoubben - Souffriau, Thiaw, Léonard, Huyghebaert - das Neves, Denoodt.

Nieuwe took the lead 3 minutes into the game by 1 - 0, as P. Orenstedt elegantly received a long range pass through the middle, finishing off with a half-volley shot just below the bar. Nieuwe increased the lead as R. Voytekhovskiy struck to make the score 2 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. With 23 minutes played, Nieuwe put themselves up 3 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to A. Livoti, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. The players of Nieuwe now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Nieuwe put themselves up 4 - 0 when D. Kamin broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. Halftime score was 4 - 0. Possession in this half belonged to Nieuwe, who controlled the ball 88 percent of the time.

Things were deteriorating for the away team as Nieuwe scored another to make it 5 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for T. Balestiero after 53 minutes. T. Clinckspoor looked to be heading one way when he unexpectedly passed the ball to N. Huyghebaert. The move caught everyone off-guard, including his teammate, who panicked and kicked the ball out of play by accident. A lovely run by brkic's V. das Neves left his markers for dead and should have resulted in a goal, but the finish went just wide. L. Roppe behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 74 minutes as he gave the ball away to R. Voytekhovskiy. Lucky for him though, there was no goal. T. Balestiero increased Nieuwe's lead to 6 - 0 with a penalty spot cannonball. P. Orenstedt could have increased the lead after 82 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park. 83 minutes in, brkic's T. Denoodt received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave R. Voytekhovskiy from Nieuwe a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 84 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of Nieuwe to 7 - 0 as D. Kamin finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. Nieuwe managed to extend their lead to 8 - 0 when R. Voytekhovskiy cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. Nieuwe claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 90 percent.

Nieuwe's best player was M. Skandalidis. On the other hand, A. Livoti's play was disheartening. The most dominating brkic player was without a doubt T. Clinckspoor. T. Pairault was a disappointment, however. The match ends 8 - 0.