ramirez222 1 - 7 Siempre (391482454)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 12000 to ramirez222 Arena. Ortlieb Penn was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Hermann Mathes-Schmidt and Giancarlo Mazzone. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for ramirez222. Lineup: Wongchalerm - Compton, Pomerleau, Cunha, Roumelos - Brown, Pimentel, Szurlej, Cuevas - Kappos, Aubry.

Siempre started off with a 4-5-1 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Malevolti - Lesage, Kranich, Kiash, Thacker - Duhamel, Housar, Magnin, David, Papineau - Bogdalik.

Siempre demonstrated their creative tactics on the field. Some quick footwork on the left side of the field 4 minutes into the match left Siempre's L. Thacker completely free to score. 0 - 1 for the visitors. After 23 minutes, A. Housar made a complete fool of himself when he presented the ball to the feet of A. Kappos who smashed it into the open goal for ramirez222. 1 - 1. With 31 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. L. Thacker put the ball away for 1 - 2. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, M. Kranich got himself booked. The manager of Siempre was not happy. With 33 minutes played, seemingly due to lack of experience, R. David needlessly tripped an opponent just outside the penalty area, but the free kick that followed didn't succeed. The home crowd was not impressed when L. Thacker came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 34 minutes. Siempre were now up 1 - 3. At that, L. Thacker was noted down for a hat trick! Siempre increased the lead to 1 - 4 as A. Housar scored from the penalty spot, putting the ball in near the top left corner. The players of Siempre now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. It was 1 - 4 at the break. Siempre had most of the ball, with 68 percent of possession.

56 minutes into the game, Siempre were awarded a penalty and A. Housar was able to increase the visitors' lead to 1 - 5 rolling the ball in by the right post. Some fine movement on the left led to a Siempre goal after 62 minutes, making it 1 - 6. M. Magnin was noted down as the scorer. A drive down the left side allowed A. Housar to get in close and score another goal for Siempre after 64 minutes, taking the score to 1 - 7. By then A. Housar had scored three goals - a hat trick! Siempre's J. Papineau made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 77 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line. ramirez222's T. Pomerleau was shown a yellow card after 81 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Possession in this half belonged to Siempre, who controlled the ball 75 percent of the time.

The most dominating ramirez222 player was without a doubt Y. Roumelos. However, M. Wongchalerm made a disastrous appearance. Most important Siempre player was L. Thacker. M. Magnin turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 1 - 7.