It had rained all day, but 24131 hardy fans still made it out to
Faxe tribunen.
Antti Viia was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Mick Drew and
Mauno Erkkilä.
bif started off with a 4-4-2 lineup.
The following players took the field: Senis - Snogdal, Battiato, De Koninck, Bloch - Askgaard, Caillet, Naranjo, Lyse Hansen - Spataro, Pennoni.
drengerøve had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation.
Starters: Schrøder - Thuesen, Kristiansen, Lihn, Ørnstrup - Sahlholdt, Halkjær, Lindby, Dam - Mørk, Mousing.
L. Spataro caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 25 minutes. This gave bif the 1 - 0 lead.
After 33 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and
T. Snogdal gave the bif supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0.
After several obvious shirt pulling incidents,
P. Lindby got himself booked. The manager of drengerøve was not happy.
After 39 minutes,
T. Snogdal put bif ahead 3 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing.
A. Naranjo of bif received a yellow card after 40 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour.
Things were deteriorating for the away team as bif scored another to make it 4 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for
L. Spataro after 41 minutes.
Confident in their lead, bif's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it.
It was 4 - 0 at the break.
bif enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 62 percent of possession.
Y. Caillet was having a great game - if anything the pouring rain seemed to be spurring him on!
A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in bif's
L. Spataro increasing the lead to 5 - 0.
That made three goals for
L. Spataro and he was marked down for the hat trick.
bif increased the lead as
V. Askgaard struck to make the score 6 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper.
The referee showed drengerøve's
J. Mørk the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.
L. Spataro unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide.
T. Snogdal increased the lead for bif to 7 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it!
At that,
T. Snogdal was noted down for a hat trick!
bif claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 66 percent.
The most dominating bif player was without a doubt
L. Spataro.
A. Naranjo turned in a dismal performance, however.
drengerøve's top performer was clearly
K. Mousing.
On the other hand,
K. Dam's play was disheartening.
The match ends 7 - 0.