tatuguara 0 - 2 Fumaça F.C (391564416)

The crowd of 9014 turning up at arena tatuguara today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Rieks Derks was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Natalio Feliu and Ibraheem Ibrahim. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for tatuguara. The following players had been chosen: Fragoso - Avgoustinos, Fürstenried, Popkowski - Mörnmo, Bengtsson, Vaglio, Salmi, Bispo - Carvalho, Omer.

Fumaça F.C started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. Starters: da Vila - Hallgren, Quijada - Fláquer, Lobo Cunha, Fonseca, Quesada, Diniz Neto - Barreto, Geisler, Arpoador.

Fumaça F.C mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. The boggy pitch disrupted the game, especially for technical players like B. Hallgren. With 13 minutes played A. Bispo almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. P. Mörnmo of tatuguara received a yellow card after 24 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. tatuguara could have put themselves ahead after 27 minutes but E. Fürstenried missed a volley shot on a ball coming in from the right. 31 minutes had elapsed when a great chance for tatuguara to take the lead after a good cross from the right found V. Salmi alone with the keeper, but he chipped it to the wrong side of the post. D. Avgoustinos, who often relies on his speed, had a rotten day on the drenched grass. With 37 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. R. Barreto put the ball away for 0 - 1. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 1. tatuguara claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

With 71 minutes played, tatuguara's A. Bispo found an opening in the visitors' left side defence, but his shot was handled easily by the keeper. V. Salmi of tatuguara was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. tatuguara had to make a substitution after 76 minutes. A. Vaglio limped off the field and was replaced by I. Laptiev. The visitors' O. Geisler took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 82 minutes into the match. 0 - 2 for Fumaça F.C. tatuguara had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

tatuguara's top performer was clearly A. Bispo. However, B. Fragoso made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Fumaça F.C player was without a doubt O. Geisler. M. Fonseca turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 0 - 2.