Palmerense 1 - 1 Corujas (391542961)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Palmerense F.C Arena saw a crowd turnout of 28984. Štefan Hamáček was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Antonio Jesús Conde and Renzo Festorazzi. Palmerense tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Lineup: Szulkowski - Lâm, Luto, Mahrla, Basioli - Chabiński, Padula, Papazzoni, Vale - Snogdal, Nowinowski.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Corujas. They fielded: Silva Costa - Gentil, Chagas, Couto Filho - de Alencar, Micuim, Formiguinha, Cuence, Varginha - Silva Lobo, Tesoura.

Corujas's E. Varginha gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 13 minutes with a superb strike from the right. Palmerense put pressure on the visitors' central defence 18 minutes into the game, but G. Papazzoni couldn't find an opening. Palmerense tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. Some fine passing in the middle of the pitch, carving open the away defence, should have led to a goal for Palmerense, but F. Luto's shot went over the bar. 33 minutes into the game, G. Nowinowski came close to levelling the score with a dangerous shot from the centre of the area that went just over the bar. 0 - 1 was the score after the first half. Palmerense claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 56 percent.

As the game started to slip away for Palmerense, the manager decided to change the tactical approach. Unhappy with the result so far in the game, the Palmerense manager used a brief break in play after 46 minutes to give the players new directives. Palmerense's G. Papazzoni almost tied things up with 55 minutes played after breaking through on the right, but his shot deflected off the post. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defence 67 minutes into the match, an alert D. Padula bagged the ball for Palmerense, levelling the score to 1 - 1. Palmerense created a good opportunity to score 68 minutes into the match when H. Mahrla's hooked ball from the left created a scuffle in front of the goal, and the visitors' defenders had a hard time clearing the ball. Palmerense had most of the ball, with 59 percent of possession.

The most dominating Palmerense player was without a doubt G. Nowinowski. However, N. Lâm made a disastrous appearance. Corujas's top performer was clearly F. Silva Lobo. E. Varginha on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 1 - 1.