los 4 - 3 Guajiro (392707236)

It had rained all day, but 32799 hardy fans still made it out to ULTIMA ARENA. Lutz Brod was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Nélson Araújo and Matteo Auderset. A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for los. Lineup: Shelach - Bortolini, Mouré, Le Devehat - Bure, Ruliovas, Sandersen, Callens - Suárez, Meneses, Ragua.

Guajiro started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Gil - Gudonis, Beda, Orsomando - Vera, Gálvez, Plantier, Linseisen, Bernal - Scotto, Barrios.

los mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. J. Mouré slipped and slithered in the wet grass. His usual rapid runs were nowhere to be seen today. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to L. Bortolini, but the los player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! A. Barrios of Guajiro received a yellow card after 17 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. 19 minutes into the match the visitors levelled the score at 1 - 1 as C. Gálvez struck home from a rebound off the crossbar, following a shot from the right. los were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. They were singing the praises of M. Callens 33 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 2 - 1 to los. los managed to extend their lead to 3 - 1 when A. Suárez cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. After this, you could see that the players of los were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. 3 - 1 was the halftime score. Possession in this half belonged to los, who controlled the ball 54 percent of the time.

los's G. Sandersen scored to make the score 4 - 1 after 57 minutes by shooting accurately and hard from a long distance, leaving the opponent keeper no other option than to pick the ball out of the net. 68 minutes into the match los's M. Bure head butted an opponent nastily, and so the referee sent him off immediately. Guajiro managed to reduce the score to 4 - 2 as J. Linseisen finished off a well-played combination from the left, easily carving through the defence. C. Gálvez received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly 76 minutes into the match, probably out of lack of experience, and almost let an opponent score. Guajiro fought on and, after 80 minutes, S. Plantier was able to reduce the deficit to 4 - 3 after some excellent moves on the right side were finished off with an incredibly clever chip. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Guajiro, with 55 percent of the ball.

los's top performer was clearly A. Suárez. T. Shelach on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Guajiro player was without a doubt J. Scotto. However, A. Vera made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 4 - 3.