rotterdam 9 - 1 Buffalos (390479994)

Dark skies made the crowd of 23657 at het kasteel 1888 a little nervous, but the rain held off. Romeo Ciocoiu was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Leo Adriaenssens and Naiden Filipov. rotterdam decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. Starters: Boertien - van Alkemade, Frizzera, Gruber-Veit, Cornaglia - Bennes, Rupar, Comadira, Abbema - Nosowicz, van Raamsdonck.

Buffalos started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. They fielded: Medkouri - Govaert, Procee, Heemskerk, van Uffelen - Gulpen, Struikman, Santegoeds, Heikes - Bar, Kropman.

rotterdam saw most attack opportunities on the wings. rotterdam took the lead after 2 minutes as a result of M. van Raamsdonck's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. N. Bennes should probably have put his team up another goal after 22 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by J. Medkouri kept the visitors in the game. Things were deteriorating for the away team as rotterdam scored another to make it 2 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for M. van Raamsdonck after 23 minutes. The referee showed rotterdam's B. Nosowicz the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. rotterdam's X. Comadira increased the lead to 3 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 29 minutes. After 41 minutes Buffalos's D. Heemskerk had to be carried off on a stretcher in agony. L. Robbers came in to replace him. As the captain was no longer on the pitch, E. Kropman took over the role of being the Buffalos captain. 44 minutes into the match R. van Alkemade put rotterdam ahead 4 - 0 with a truly marvelous free kick. Confident in their lead, rotterdam's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. rotterdam solidified their lead at the 44 minute mark, as M. van Raamsdonck dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 5 - 0. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for M. van Raamsdonck. rotterdam's S. Gruber-Veit left the field after 44 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was S. van der Wel. It was 5 - 0 at the break. rotterdam had most of the ball, with 90 percent of possession.

The rotterdam players could smell victory in the air. M. Rupar wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for R. Altimira after 60 minutes. R. Altimira acted foolishly after 60 minutes, giving the ball up to Buffalos's S. Heikes who had no trouble finding the back of the net. 5 - 1. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of rotterdam to 6 - 1 as B. Nosowicz finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. The coach of rotterdam was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 70 minutes, V. Dam came on for M. van Raamsdonck. S. van der Wel became the new rotterdam captain. Cheers filled the stadium as F. Frizzera broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 7 - 1 to rotterdam. rotterdam managed to extend their lead to 8 - 1 when B. Abbema cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. Things were going to get worse for the visitors. B. Abbema squirmed through their central defence after 87 minutes, increasing the lead to 9 - 1. Buffalos's M. Bar was shown a yellow card after 87 minutes for slicing down an opponent. R. van Alkemade couldn't finish the match after being injured, leaving rotterdam a man down. rotterdam claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 92 percent.

rotterdam's top performer was clearly N. Bennes. R. Boertien turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating Buffalos player was without a doubt E. Kropman. However, G. Procee made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 9 - 1.