TIMAOFC 1 - 5 Papareia (391604018)

Clouds darkened the skies at ARENA TIMAO as 20222 spectators turned up for the match. Damian Wichmann was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Béla Keller and Mirosław Zbijowski. TIMAOFC started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Kerminen - Arentolo, Fossen, Raich, Stöckl - Niemenmaa, Caldeira, Ganhado, Bochev - Desmet, Fodor.

Papareia decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. They fielded: Ruiz Tagle - Verplanke, Daubie, Forsthuber, Benaïssa - Inca, Ertl, Pit Bull, Veilleux - Matsson, Paglia.

Today, TIMAOFC's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. It was an obvious ambition of Papareia to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. Clever play that showed his experience gave S. Paglia a good chance to score, but the shot hit the crossbar. Papareia's S. Paglia showed his experience, anticipating the outcome of the opponent's defensive clearance and positioning himself perfectly to volley in an unstoppable shot from the edge of the box. 0 - 1. M. Pit Bull increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 2. 14 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 3 as R. Ertl finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. K. Møllebjerg was called on to replace Papareia's R. Benaïssa after 30 minutes following a nasty collision. The home team's supporters got excited again when C. Desmet broke through the visitors' central defence and caught their keeper off guard, making it 1 - 3. R. Ertl received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 35 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 1 - 4. The Papareia fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 4. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Papareia, with 56 percent of the ball.

With 50 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed M. Pit Bull of Papareia to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 1 - 5. The players of Papareia now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. TIMAOFC's C. Desmet was shown a yellow card after 56 minutes for slicing down an opponent. A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from N. Matsson after 71 minutes, and prevented Papareia from going up another goal. Possession in this half belonged to Papareia, who controlled the ball 53 percent of the time.

A. Caldeira performed admirably for TIMAOFC. R. Ganhado turned in a dismal performance, however. Most important Papareia player was S. Paglia. On the other hand, A. Inca's play was disheartening. The match ends 1 - 5.