Pata 3 - 3 PUNISH (391210178)

Dark skies made the crowd of 55000 at Dinamita Juniors Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Ou Yang Yet-Weai was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Karsten Fig and Umberto Tinaglia. Pata had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players took the field: Lambarri - Kaša, Marco, Mimica - Sotomayor, Alcaíno, Cardaveras, Boonen, Basay - Galindo, Maravillas.

PUNISH started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. Starters: Aukenthaler - Casale, Woyna - Bugge, de Kam, Nielsen, Benmbarek, Avrahami - Valdivia, Constantino, Astorga.

PUNISH tried to focus their attacks down the middle. Always quick and a menace to his opponents, K. Bugge was very close to getting through after 7 minutes, but he could only put the ball into the keeper's arms. With 9 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. R. Valdivia put the ball away for 0 - 1. With 10 minutes played, J. Marco of Pata fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. 15 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 2 as R. Valdivia finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. I. Alcaíno did everything he could to get one back for his Pata, but keeper H. Aukenthaler denied him with a spectacular block. After 30 minutes, an incisive pass through the middle gave R. Valdivia a chance to increase the lead for PUNISH, and he did not disappoint. The score was then 0 - 3. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for R. Valdivia. After this, you could see that the players of PUNISH were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Pata's G. Maravillas got the home crowd going when he finished off a left wing charge, reducing the away team's lead to 1 - 3. PUNISH's N. Nielsen was shown a yellow card after 35 minutes for slicing down an opponent. 1 - 3 was the halftime score. Pata claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 58 percent.

The home side worked hard to get through the middle and as a result, had a good chance of getting one back as E. Sotomayor tried lifting the ball over keeper H. Aukenthaler. Unfortunately, the ball went just over the bar. A penalty kick was awarded to Pata 60 minutes into the match, and J. Kaša expertly put it away. 2 - 3. After 66 minutes, G. Maravillas made a dash down the middle past the away team's defenders to score the goal that made it 3 - 3. Possession in this half belonged to Pata, who controlled the ball 59 percent of the time.

G. Maravillas performed admirably for Pata. However, J. Basay made a disastrous appearance. PUNISH's best player was R. Valdivia. M. Casale turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 3 - 3.