n00bz 6 - 3 Fighters (390246142)

Dark skies made the crowd of 59525 at Camp N00B a little nervous, but the rain held off. Kornelius Gottberg was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Xabier Delage and Crépin Fares. People from all over Noord-Brabant had joined up for the derby. n00bz tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: Fedon - Brandt, Thomassen, Cereo - Tettelbach, Bissattini, Matterne, 贵芳 (Guifang), Subbaraman - Erlebach, Cambra.

Fighters had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Boogert - Tolun, Alberts, Vossius - Hoeflaak, Rijnveld, Boote, van Soerland, Gerards - Companjen, van Beem.

n00bz took the lead after 3 minutes as a result of M. Erlebach's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. 16 minutes into the game, n00bz were awarded a penalty that T. Thomassen turned into 2 - 0 without a problem. 20 minutes into the match, the visitors reduced the lead to 2 - 1 as a free kick by B. van Beem slunk past the home side's goalkeeper. n00bz's T. Thomassen was shown a yellow card after 27 minutes for slicing down an opponent. After 35 minutes, the visitors levelled the scores after R. van Soerland made it through the middle and struck home to make it 2 - 2. n00bz took the lead 38 minutes into the game by 3 - 2, as C. Bissattini elegantly received a long range pass through the middle, finishing off with a half-volley shot just below the bar. It was 3 - 2 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to n00bz, who controlled the ball 52 percent of the time.

The visitors refused to give in and, after 58 minutes, H. Rijnveld evened things up as he finished off a perfect pass from the right. 3 - 3 The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to J. Brandt, but the n00bz player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 4 - 3! n00bz's C. Bissattini increased the lead to 5 - 3, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 63 minutes. Fighters's B. van Beem got himself booked for a foul. 75 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as P. Cambra broke through, making the score 6 - 3 for n00bz. Confident in their lead, n00bz's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. 77 minutes in, n00bz's C. Bissattini received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by n00bz, with 52 percent of the ball.

n00bz's top performer was clearly M. Erlebach. On the other hand, X. Cereo's play was disheartening. Fighters's best player was B. van Beem. B. Hoeflaak was a disappointment, however. The match ends 6 - 3.