Linxboy 3 - 2 squadra (390184528)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 29816 had shown up at New Trafford for the match. Riccardo Muscas was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Bohuslav Kasper and Morten Nygaard. All of Dakar was shut down for the day, as fans of both clubs came to the derby. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Linxboy. The following players took the field: Brandt - Schlinger, Nobbe, Rogue - Amöneburg, Polizzi, Suslyakov, Provst, Vilep - Lapalus, Møller Nielsen.

squadra had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Thijs - De Herrera, Ramos, de Almeida - Mäenpää, Agostinho, Sánchez, Curry - Erşan, Gangue, Rolfsson.

squadra mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. Priding himself in being an active coach, the Linxboy manager gave new instructions to his players after 1 minutes. With the match clock at 1 minutes, Linxboy modified their style of play a little bit. H. Vilep's early cross saw the defenders caught out of position and the alert J. Lapalus was able to pounce and roll the ball past the hapless goalkeeper to score for Linxboy. 1 - 0. 14 minutes into the match the visitors levelled the score at 1 - 1 as E. Rolfsson struck home from a rebound off the crossbar, following a shot from the right. 1 - 2 was the score with 17 minutes played, after S. Erşan cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for squadra. With a shot curled in from just outside the middle of the penalty area after 24 minutes played, E. Møller Nielsen of Linxboy made the score 2 - 2. squadra players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead. squadra had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 35 minutes in when E. Rolfsson came up alone against L. Brandt who managed a block. J. Nobbe gave Linxboy the lead with a beautiful free kick after 37 minutes. 3 - 2! Linxboy's P. Provst saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 38 minutes. The teams went for the halftime break at 3 - 2. Linxboy claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 60 percent.

P. Provst should probably have put his team up another goal after 56 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by A. Thijs kept the visitors in the game. The bench was restless, and with 68 minutes passed squadra's coach gave A. Dibo the opportunity the player had been hoping for. H. Curry reluctantly left the field. Content with how the game was proceeding, the Linxboy coach let M. Satomaa replace H. Vilep after 74 minutes. The home side's A. Rogue came close to extending the lead 74 minutes into the game. His shot came in from the right hand side but A. Thijs managed to save it with an unbelievable reaction stop. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, squadra's C. Agostinho was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 79 minutes. N. Gandega was given a chance to change things around. After 79 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by E. Møller Nielsen might have resulted in another goal for Linxboy. However, A. Thijs made a spectacular save. Possession in this half belonged to Linxboy, who controlled the ball 63 percent of the time.

Most important Linxboy player was E. Møller Nielsen. On the other hand, L. Brandt's play was disheartening. squadra's best player was H. Ramos. A. Thijs was a disappointment, however. The match ends 3 - 2.