aimei 0 - 3 Barcelona (392401481)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 24388 had shown up at grande for the match. Irvin Estland was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ariel Ibachache Buana and Niels Neugebauer. aimei tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Nunes - Carlsen, Torres Guerra, Guesné - Thalhammer, Duvivier, Tavares Simões, Gulino, Dacosta - Silverblom, Negruţ.

Barcelona started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. Lineup: Udrescu - Gam, Infante, Hekelaar - Zielski, Badea, Deichsel, Kieda - Curcan, Garrabou, Pizarro.

aimei mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. Barcelona displayed their ability to play creatively. 7 minutes into the game, R. Garrabou was a hair's breadth away from giving Barcelona the lead with a shot from over on the left. A prompt block by J. Nunes saved the home team that time. G. Hekelaar finished off the counterattack of Barcelona from the left rather easily, making the score 0 - 1. With 40 minutes played, after a good run down the left, P. Gulino went down looking for a penalty after a challenge from the visitors' right fullback, but the referee waved play on, and later warned him for diving. Some fine movement on the left led to a Barcelona goal after 41 minutes, making it 0 - 2. J. Gam was noted down as the scorer. Halftime score was 0 - 2. Possession in this half belonged to aimei, who controlled the ball 65 percent of the time.

After 60 minutes, F. Tavares Simões had a good opportunity to reduce the scoreline for aimei with a chance created through the middle, but wasn't cool enough. The ball went miles over the bar. With 67 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed G. Hekelaar of Barcelona to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. The home side worked their way through the middle and almost got one back when B. Guesné tried to sneak the ball past the keeper. I. Udrescu was too alert for that! aimei had most of the ball, with 67 percent of possession.

The most dominating aimei player was without a doubt P. Gulino. G. Negruţ was a disappointment, however. Barcelona's top performer was clearly C. Curcan. However, E. Kieda made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 3.