Taranakie 0 - 8 Brownsburg (391476122)

7312 fans braved the pouring rain at Taranakie Arena. Jacob Sierra was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Hauke Hutwelker and Anders Hyfeldt. Taranakie started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Coulthard - Godbout, Rivergate, Sensitivo, Zepeda - Saint-Laurent, Clarke, Dembowski, O'Connor - Soulières, Florczak.

A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Brownsburg. Starters: Amezcua - Giannotti, Nilsen, Precopio - Valdrighi, Fuchshuber, Håkansson, Ðalović - Hamel, McCloud, LeBlanc.

The rain made it hard for players like F. Valdrighi to show their technical control of the ball on this soggy day. After 10 minutes, Brownsburg put themselves up 0 - 1, as D. LeBlanc finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. The referee showed Brownsburg's M. Precopio the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Some fine movement on the left led to a Brownsburg goal after 31 minutes, making it 0 - 2. D. LeBlanc was noted down as the scorer. Confident in their lead, Brownsburg's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. With 40 minutes played, Brownsburg put themselves up 0 - 3 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was D. LeBlanc. This third goal completed a hattrick for D. LeBlanc. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. Brownsburg claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 71 percent.

With 50 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed M. McCloud of Brownsburg to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 4. J. Rivergate of Taranakie was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. The home crowd was not impressed when D. LeBlanc came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 67 minutes. Brownsburg were now up 0 - 5. The visitors' D. LeBlanc took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 68 minutes into the match. 0 - 6 for Brownsburg. M. McCloud received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 72 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 7. The Brownsburg fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. 73 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 8 as C. Fuchshuber finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. Brownsburg enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 74 percent of possession.

Taranakie's top performer was clearly T. Florczak. R. Coulthard turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating Brownsburg player was without a doubt D. LeBlanc. However, C. Fuchshuber made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 8.