jinja 0 - 7 United (392459572)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and nawaal saw a crowd turnout of 12000. Florian Botez was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Alain Schönenberger and Adrien Diez. jinja had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Lule - Odong, Kanyandago, Ngondwe - Mubiru, Wangusa, Richard, Kasule, Rwilomba - Ssepuuya, Mwisaka.

United tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Starters: Serumaga - Sterpu, Šiller - Ortenberg, Rădescu, Pollina, Opiyo, Ballegaard - Lipič, Belderink, Révol.

jinja seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. United took the lead after 11 minutes making the score 0 - 1. F. Pollina placed the ball out of reach for the home side's keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left. After 21 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for N. Révol who increased United's lead to 0 - 2. Confident in their lead, United's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 2. United had most of the ball, with 61 percent of possession.

52 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 3 as D. Lipič finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. A drive down the left side allowed N. Révol to get in close and score another goal for United after 53 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 4. N. Révol of United took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 71 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 5. That made three goals for N. Révol and he was marked down for the hat trick. The visitors' G. Rădescu took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 78 minutes into the match. 0 - 6 for United. D. Ortenberg was ever so close to scoring after an excellent corner was beautifully flicked on by F. Ballegaard, but the ball bounced off the post to safety. J. Belderink increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 7. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by United, with 64 percent of the ball.

jinja's top performer was clearly P. Rwilomba. However, R. Lule made a disastrous appearance. United's best player was K. Serumaga. N. Révol on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 7.