nampu 4 - 1 Invictus (389578251)

The 12000 spectators at Barbourfields were in for an afternoon of sunshine. Vaggelis Apisteftakis was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rolf Ruud and Rafinha Longo. nampu had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Starters: Cardoso Dias - Thorsgaard, Dichmann, Soares - Anioł, Eichendorff, Luz, Vaz Pereira, Labari - Pedrosa Silva, Soares.

Invictus started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Araújo Rocha - Póvoa, Almeida Pinto, Brito - da Silva, Matos Teixeira, Pinho, Saraiva, Morgado - Couto, Domingos.

Invictus mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. nampu's A. Soares refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 2 minutes. Invictus's M. Couto could have put the guests one up after 6 minutes after chasing a through ball from the right, but A. Cardoso Dias was as fast as a snake, grabbing the ball from under his nose. Some great play up the middle by nampu led to a chance for F. Eichendorff to score after 15 minutes, but the shot hit the crossbar. K. Dichmann gave nampu the lead with a beautiful free kick after 16 minutes. 1 - 0! Some things can only be learned through experience, and V. Póvoa should take his lesson to heart after nearly gifting nampu a goal with 19 minutes of the match played. K. Dichmann should probably have put his team up another goal after 24 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by J. Araújo Rocha kept the visitors in the game. Things were deteriorating for the away team as nampu scored another to make it 2 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for F. Eichendorff after 25 minutes. It was 2 - 0 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by nampu, with 57 percent of the ball.

nampu's J. Vaz Pereira got himself booked for a foul. S. Saraiva was the unlucky victim and couldn't continue the game, so Invictus's J. Lourenço had to come off the bench. After 62 minutes, Invictus raised their score by one when V. da Silva's dangerous low cross was cleverly tucked in at the near post by S. Domingos. 2 - 1. As usual, J. Lourenço tried to use his strength and hard work for the benefit of the team, but the heat hit him hard and he couldn't keep pace at all. R. Thorsgaard increased the lead for nampu to 3 - 1, 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! Confident in their lead, nampu's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. J. Vaz Pereira unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. After 76 minutes, J. Pedrosa Silva put nampu ahead 4 - 1 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. Possession in this half belonged to nampu, who controlled the ball 62 percent of the time.

nampu's best player was R. Soares. A. Cardoso Dias turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating Invictus player was without a doubt V. da Silva. J. Lourenço on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 1.