C.A.Real_Copita 3 - 1 Playeros (391222667)

32663 punters turned up at EL Copihue, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Stefan Hansson was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Bertil Jonassen and Kent Ahlblad. The derby had been the talk of Metropolitana all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for C.A.Real_Copita. They fielded: Dänzer - Songur, Verbeke, Goovaerts - Weijns, Llanos, Sánchez, Alessandro, Mota - Mallo, Illia.

Playeros tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Hoegl - Penabad, Camus, Schwachhofer - Tant, Di Politto, Ubink, Brdak, Unger - Otaiza, Araya.

C.A.Real_Copita mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. They were singing the praises of I. Illia 31 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 1 - 0 to C.A.Real_Copita. What was D. Goovaerts thinking? That's what everyone wondered when, for no apparent reason, he shot a cross pass over his own penalty area, giving M. Unger an extra chance, but unfortunately for Playeros, he didn't get the shot right. 1 - 0 was the halftime score. Possession in this half belonged to C.A.Real_Copita, who controlled the ball 56 percent of the time.

After 47 minutes, C.A.Real_Copita's R. Verbeke found the back of the goal with a beautiful free kick. 2 - 0. 70 minutes in, Playeros's A. Otaiza received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The home side's I. Illia came close to extending the lead 71 minutes into the game. His shot came in from the right hand side but C. Hoegl managed to save it with an unbelievable reaction stop. It was obvious that team C.A.Real_Copita had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings. Cheers filled the stadium as R. Verbeke broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 3 - 0 to C.A.Real_Copita. Playeros were desperate to get a goal back and pushed forward through the middle 78 minutes into the game. After a scramble in the box, the ball dropped to K. Brdak, who smashed it home to make the score 3 - 1. C.A.Real_Copita had most of the ball, with 59 percent of possession.

G. Llanos performed admirably for C.A.Real_Copita. On the other hand, A. Mota's play was disheartening. Playeros's best player was A. Otaiza. U. Penabad turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 3 - 1.