palangana 3 - 3 C.A.B.C (390894418)

The 38048 spectators at monumental lapalan were in for an afternoon of sunshine. Bastien Huynh was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Cesare Mocella and Maciej Czerwiński. palangana had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Telem - Demirsoy, Żwidziak, Andie Jensen, Thongsuthi - Jensen, Rachuta, Cauldwell, Karjalainen - Vermelho, Sansone.

C.A.B.C started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players took the field: Fagalde - Pivert, Héder, Fieri - Kirchhoff, Ranguin, Buva, Povolotskiy - Raffa, Buscemi, Hwang.

C.A.B.C saw most attack opportunities on the wings. Attacking on the wings was the choice for C.A.B.C, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. With 26 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. A. Ranguin put the ball away for 0 - 1. It was obvious that C.A.B.C had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. With 36 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed J. Raffa of C.A.B.C to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 2. The home team's supporters got excited again when R. Karjalainen broke through the visitors' central defence and caught their keeper off guard, making it 1 - 2. S. Żwidziak's technique was perfect on this sunny day and led to some breathtaking tricks that bamboozled the defence. With the crowd on their feet chanting wildly, some great moves down the right hand side after 41 minutes gave palangana a wonderful opportunity to level the score, and G. Jensen stepped up to the challenge. 2 - 2 It was 2 - 2 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to palangana, who controlled the ball 65 percent of the time.

C.A.B.C's J. Buscemi gave the visitors a 2 - 3 lead after 48 minutes with a superb strike from the right. M. Demirsoy charged down the left and had a wonderful opportunity to score the equaliser for palangana, but the shot went well wide of the goal. palangana tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. With a shot curled in from just outside the middle of the penalty area after 63 minutes played, G. Jensen of palangana made the score 3 - 3. M. Demirsoy didn't pace himself at all, and after a series of daring offensive runs he was too tired to help out in the defensive play. With 74 minutes played P. Thongsuthi almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. palangana had most of the ball, with 68 percent of possession.

palangana's top performer was clearly G. Jensen. M. Demirsoy on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating C.A.B.C player was without a doubt J. Buscemi. However, A. Povolotskiy made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 3 - 3.