Tygers 6 - 0 Baxter (390331660)

14622 spectators had found their way to Felidae ArenA, despite the heavy rain. Jörn Düsterhäft was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Matej Hatiar and Ciro Trapolino. A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Tygers. They fielded: Felgueiras - Detmering, Kolomenčikovas - Vakkila, Nesset, Wallenstein, Ferrarini, Zambruno - Gusparo, Pacco, Cortazzo.

Baxter decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Lineup: Woertman - Remzi, Vakıf, Nordland - Willems, van der Grift, Délpy, Heming, de Hooge - Branaś, de Leeuw.

Today, Tygers's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. The wings were the focus of most of Baxter's attacks today. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave P. Wallenstein from Tygers a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 3 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! Tygers were very close to putting themselves one up after 25 minutes as T. Vakkila got through on the left, but failing in concentration, he shot the ball wide. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to J. Detmering, but the Tygers player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! Tygers's S. Cortazzo increased the lead to 2 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 36 minutes. Tygers increased the lead as T. Pacco struck to make the score 3 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. After this, you could see that the players of Tygers were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Halftime score was 3 - 0. Tygers had most of the ball, with 69 percent of possession.

R. Kolomenčikovas behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 53 minutes as he gave the ball away to F. Branaś. Lucky for him though, there was no goal. With 61 minutes played, Tygers's J. Detmering almost extended the lead, but his shot from the left glanced off the top of the bar to fall behind the net. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Tygers scored another to make it 4 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for A. Ferrarini after 66 minutes. Things were going to get worse for the visitors. S. Cortazzo squirmed through their central defence after 83 minutes, increasing the lead to 5 - 0. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of Tygers to 6 - 0 as M. Zambruno finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Tygers, with 70 percent of the ball.

Tygers's top performer was clearly R. Kolomenčikovas. On the other hand, S. Gusparo's play was disheartening. F. Branaś performed admirably for Baxter. However, D. Woertman made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 6 - 0.