gugusiowo 3 - 0 Lexium (392492630)

The 616 spectators at gugusiowo R22 were in for an afternoon of sunshine. Sverre Lilleberg was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Tommi Niemiaho and Ivan Berny. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for gugusiowo. The following players took the field: Sieroń - Villaverde, Villarías, Baksteen - Grzejszczak, Ejder, Wietrzyk, Derakhshan, Szczepankiewicz - Koguciak, Huysmans.

Lexium decided to use a 2-5-3 set up. Lineup: Fołda - Wolter, Hintzke - Kundera, Sarrau, Matura, Kafka, Biegun - Faber, Łoza, Dudziak.

Using their counter-attacking abilities was the strategy of choice for Lexium. The home crowd breathed a collective sigh of relief when J. Sarrau was unable to put the ball in the net after his show of skill down the left 4 minutes into the match. He was seen beating the pitch in frustration at missing such a good chance to give his team the lead! After 18 minutes, P. Szczepankiewicz came in from the right, feinted, then sped past the off-balance defender to make the score 1 - 0, giving gugusiowo the lead. After a short break after 24 minutes, gugusiowo seemed to change their tactical approach a bit. P. Villarías unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. 38 minutes into the game, Lexium seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a inadequate level of organisation. 1 - 0 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by gugusiowo, with 51 percent of the ball.

The Lexium players spent the break getting a rerun of the team's tactical organisation and regained a solid organisation when the game started again. The coach of gugusiowo was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 46 minutes, A. Fratti came on for B. Koguciak. With 48 minutes played, the visitors could have drawn level after K. Łoza came through the middle, but his kick went wide. Content with how the game was proceeding, the gugusiowo coach let B. Najdecki replace U. Huysmans after 49 minutes. 51 minutes into the game, Lexium had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to weak. After 59 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and A. Wietrzyk gave the gugusiowo supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0. At this point, it was obvious that the players of gugusiowo lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. Lexium breathed new life into the game with an opportunity to reduce the score after 69 minutes, but the home side's defenders cleared the ball on the line, after a long shot coming in from the left rebounded off the crossbar. gugusiowo's A. Baksteen was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 71 minutes. 74 minutes into the match J. Derakhshan put gugusiowo ahead 3 - 0 with a truly marvelous free kick. The heat made it a terrible day for A. Baksteen, who seemed unable to keep up with the other players. E. Ejder had a fantastic opportunity to put gugusiowo up another goal 81 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. gugusiowo had most of the ball, with 60 percent of possession.

J. Derakhshan performed admirably for gugusiowo. On the other hand, A. Baksteen's play was disheartening. Lexium's top performer was clearly A. Matura. T. Fołda turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 3 - 0.