Guimarães 4 - 0 Fabaum (391570819)

Dark skies made the crowd of 38419 at Castelão a little nervous, but the rain held off. Dardo Panizzi was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Niels Christian Baggesen and Martien Brak. A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Guimarães. The following players had been chosen: Stibor - Cubo, Kurczewski - Tittler, Koto, Boykov, Molik, Enguix - Kapov, Truão, Saresera.

Fabaum had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Cavalleri - Mariátegui, Nussbaumer, Aristarkhov - Kolyada, Freghetti, Ibănescu, Rousseau, Fiscina - Conticello, Bajčić.

The wings were the focus of most of Guimarães's attacks today. Guimarães's S. Boykov got himself booked for a foul. 12 minutes into the match and the home team took a 1 - 0 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for Guimarães was P. Molik. Guimarães's L. Kapov was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 13 minutes. Guimarães's N. Koto saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 15 minutes. It was 1 - 0 at the break. Guimarães had most of the ball, with 51 percent of possession.

V. Enguix was doing a great job on his wing, sending in brilliant passes to his teammates in the middle, but N. Tittler seemed unable to profit from this excellent service. Fabaum were close to putting the equaliser away after 53 minutes as the opposing defence lost control of the ball to L. Conticello in a scuffle towards the left of the goal, but in the end the ball was cleared over the dead ball line. A well-executed free kick by M. Saresera after 59 minutes made it 2 - 0 for Guimarães. Guimarães had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. Guimarães's E. Truão increased the lead to 3 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 60 minutes. After 68 minutes, L. Kapov put Guimarães ahead 4 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. After this, you could see that the players of Guimarães were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Possession in this half belonged to Fabaum, who controlled the ball 52 percent of the time.

Guimarães's best player was E. Truão. M. Saresera turned in a dismal performance, however. Most important Fabaum player was G. Ibănescu. K. Kolyada on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 0.