Pastillas 4 - 3 Zuripanta (390908239)

21625 spectators arrived at reposo de la 20, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Valerio Trucillo was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Marko Vuolama and Corvin Jonathan Ruth. Pastillas started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players took the field: Thausing - Jambirbayev, Riusech, Karakoç - Richard, Jurštík, Zalazar, Ronconi - Lim, Dhondt, van der Vlis.

Zuripanta tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Borges - Levis, Dillenberger, Bonilla - Haller, Figueroa, Montesarín, Santa Cruz, Morup-Jensen - Simone, Baldessarini.

Zuripanta took the lead after 10 minutes making the score 0 - 1. P. Bonilla placed the ball out of reach for the home side's keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left. P. Bonilla could have put his team up another goal 12 minutes into the game, after a rush down the left, but his closing shot hit the post. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, L. Dhondt got himself booked. The manager of Pastillas was not happy. 0 - 1 was the halftime score. Pastillas claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 55 percent.

M. Montesarín wanted to play on, but the Zuripanta coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 56 minutes into the game by W. Bedla. After 59 minutes, Pastillas sent a free kick in high over the penalty box. In what looked like a well-rehearsed move, the ball was headed backwards and reached J. Riusech, who had plenty of space to place a well aimed shot - 1 - 1. Pastillas's L. Dhondt showed his experience, anticipating the outcome of the opponent's defensive clearance and positioning himself perfectly to volley in an unstoppable shot from the edge of the box. 2 - 1. Pastillas solidified their lead at the 63 minute mark, as L. Jurštík dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 3 - 1. 68 minutes into the match, Zuripanta's C. Baldessarini popped up from nowhere, cheekily stole the ball off an opposition player and scored. 3 - 2. After 71 minutes, P. van der Vlis put Pastillas ahead 4 - 2 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. The visitors' right side was dangerous today; C. Baldessarini made the home team's keeper look foolish as he easily reduced the lead to make it 4 - 3 74 minutes into the match. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Santa Cruz from Zuripanta a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 79 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! L. Jurštík could have increased the lead after 81 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park. Possession in this half belonged to Pastillas, who controlled the ball 52 percent of the time.

Pastillas's best player was H. Lim. M. Richard on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Zuripanta player was without a doubt M. Borges. On the other hand, F. Dillenberger's play was disheartening. The match ends 4 - 3.