Vinni 1 - 6 ZIUL (391551306)

36383 spectators arrived at Sport Club Internacional, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Jan-Christian Friedland was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Acisclo Oleiros and Santiago Merino. Vinni tactics involved an interesting 3-4-3 combination. Starters: Caraíva - Pniewski, Taflisi, Chalk - Dalmases, Hamburger, Ciura, Parkkisenniemi - Trevisan, Varemenos, Novák.

ZIUL decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Ratouli - Cagigao, Castanheda, Staudinger - Serpa Lopes, Vidigal, Souza Matos, Negrão, Stefanino - Villaragut, Van Looy.

Vinni used their ability to concentrate their attacks in the middle of the pitch, rather than on the wings. Down the middle came J. Villaragut, making a fantastic play that nearly had ZIUL take the lead after 7 minutes, but H. Caraíva preserved the tie. 8 minutes in, Vinni's A. Parkkisenniemi received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The terraces were silenced after 13 minutes when ZIUL's F. Vidigal put the guests ahead 0 - 1, following an attack on the right. 18 minutes into the match, the speedy S. Stefanino easily outpaced F. Taflisi, chipped the keeper and made the score 0 - 2. With 19 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed F. Vidigal of ZIUL to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. After this, you could see that the players of ZIUL were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. A well placed corner kick from S. Stefanino was followed by F. Staudinger's hard but accurate header. The well executed routine resulted in a goal for ZIUL, the score now 0 - 4. S. Stefanino increased ZIUL's lead to 0 - 5 with a superb free kick strike that flew in just under the far top corner. 0 - 5 was the score after the first half. ZIUL had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

R. Van Looy wanted to play on, but the ZIUL coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 70 minutes into the game by A. Zatorzak. As the captain was no longer on the pitch, A. Zatorzak took over the role of being the ZIUL captain. 82 minutes into the game Vinni broke through on the left wing and L. Varemenos managed to reduce the lead to 1 - 5. After 83 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed S. Stefanino to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 1 - 6. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for S. Stefanino. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by ZIUL, with 62 percent of the ball.

The most dominating Vinni player was without a doubt L. Varemenos. However, L. Chalk made a disastrous appearance. F. Staudinger performed admirably for ZIUL. On the other hand, A. Zatorzak's play was disheartening. The match ends 1 - 6.