Porteños 0 - 1 albeazul (390969672)

The crowd of 14444 turning up at Enzo Francescoli today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Pier Federico Campitelli was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Wiesław Kowalewicz and Gilles Juppé. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Porteños. The following players took the field: Landaeta - Akselrod, Cruz, Tróccoli - Martínez, Tinoco, Cusihuallpa, Hoskyn, Kleibeuker - Helisz, Filimoniuk.

albeazul started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Feola - Knoller, Puppola, Paro, Calderón - Pinto, Jedidi, Mereles, Reyna - Sánchez, Losada.

Many thought A. Martínez ought to have been awarded a penalty 11 minutes into the game, as he went down trying to dribble around O. Feola after a determined run through the middle. Some great play up the middle by Porteños led to a chance for A. Helisz to score after 16 minutes, but the shot hit the crossbar. O. Reyna spent most of the time in a heap on the ground today, his normally rapid movement hindered by the slippery pitch. Porteños had a good opportunity to take the lead as G. Tinoco came up the left side, but he struck the ball weakly and it went straight into the arms of O. Feola. J. Landaeta looked great 26 minutes into the match after stopping a shot from the middle of the penalty area from the visitors' M. Losada. 0 - 0 was the halftime score. Possession in this half belonged to Porteños, who controlled the ball 59 percent of the time.

73 minutes had elapsed when a great chance for Porteños to take the lead after a good cross from the right found M. Akselrod alone with the keeper, but he chipped it to the wrong side of the post. 81 minutes into the game, J. Cusihuallpa had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came I. Câmara. The visiting J. Mereles was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 83 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 0 - 1 was the score. albeazul claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 52 percent.

Most important Porteños player was K. Filimoniuk. G. Tinoco turned in a dismal performance, however. M. Losada performed admirably for albeazul. On the other hand, J. Mereles's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 1.