The Mentes 0 - 1 Ovallito (391278465)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Flor de Caña Arena saw a crowd turnout of 28270. Stephan Vugolle was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Tom Håkansson and Dor Naim. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for The Mentes. Lineup: Grajales - Lucero, Bruggink, Rosnes - Arturo, Vollmers, Zapasnikas, Negovanski, Masuren - Paulus, Gerželj.

Ovallito had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Seymour - Sall, 尔嘉 (Erjia) , 维礼 (Weili) - Días, Rivière, Lohne, Talaverov, Sáenz - Miguéis, Krätz.

The Mentes were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. Ovallito had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 2 minutes in when I. Días came up alone against E. Grajales who managed a block. With 4 minutes played F. Masuren almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. An opportunity to take the lead after 9 minutes was wasted as Ovallito's M. Sall missed a penalty, firing wide of the mark. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, A. Negovanski got himself booked. The manager of The Mentes was not happy. The visiting 郭. 尔嘉 (Erjia) was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 22 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 0 - 1 was the score. 0 - 1 was the score after the first half. Possession in this half belonged to Ovallito, who controlled the ball 61 percent of the time.

A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from F. Miguéis after 47 minutes, and prevented Ovallito from going up another goal. E. Grajales got a fingertip on A. Sáenz's shot from the left 65 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal. Ovallito had most of the ball, with 64 percent of possession.

Most important The Mentes player was I. Gerželj. On the other hand, K. Zapasnikas's play was disheartening. C. Krätz performed admirably for Ovallito. A. Seymour on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 1.