Principito 6 - 1 Il Potente (391808930)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 46735 to Campo Presidiario. Raymond Agius was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Fabien Panetier and Matt Wilbur. Principito tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Lineup: Kulaš - van Mol, Vīķis-Freibergs - Millán, Poláček, De Melo, Reznik, Yohpaz - Villouta, Yost, McFly.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Il Potente. Starters: Fernández - Seregni, Dall orso, Strauch - Miedler, Pilguy, Sbíroli, González, Delerue - Hernández, Luts.

Principito seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. Today, Il Potente's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to E. Millán, but the Principito player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! Principito players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead. A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Principito's E. Vīķis-Freibergs increasing the lead to 2 - 0. The referee showed Principito's T. Yost the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. The visitors got one back when L. Delerue finished off a pass from the left and scored after 34 minutes. 2 - 1 was the score. D. Villouta unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. After 42 minutes, Principito raised their score by one when Y. Yohpaz's dangerous low cross was cleverly tucked in at the near post by P. McFly. 3 - 1. With 43 minutes played, O. Luts had a fantastic opportunity to reply but his shot flew harmlessly into the side-netting of the goal. 44 minutes in, Principito's B. De Melo received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. 3 - 1 was the score after the first half. Principito had most of the ball, with 56 percent of possession.

After 46 minutes, the Principito players received new instructions from their manager on how to keep in control of the game. It was obvious that team Principito had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings. Cheers filled the stadium as P. McFly broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 4 - 1 to Principito. By now, the players in Principito felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. M. Hernández nearly reduced the lead 56 minutes into the game, but a splendid one-handed save by R. Kulaš prevented the attempt coming in from the right flank from hitting the back of the net. 57 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as P. McFly broke through, making the score 5 - 1 for Principito. This third goal completed a hattrick for P. McFly. Principito were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. Principito solidified their lead at the 60 minute mark, as D. Villouta dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 6 - 1. The Principito coach was visibly pleased with the score so far, but still ordered a few tactical changes 70 minutes into the game. Content with how the game was proceeding, the Principito coach let L. Canosa replace T. Yost after 70 minutes. As the game started to slip away for Il Potente, the manager decided to change the tactical approach. Unhappy with the result so far in the game, the Il Potente manager used a brief break in play after 70 minutes to give the players new directives. Principito claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 55 percent.

Principito's best player was D. Villouta. However, L. Canosa made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Il Potente player was without a doubt G. Strauch. J. Dall orso turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 6 - 1.