Doves 5 - 0 Ozzy (392733166)

The crowd of 2160 turning up at Doves City Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Philippe Agler was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Wojciech Nadolny and Dietmar Koker. Doves tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players took the field: Zugor - Özpetek, Hammer, Báró, Kama - Ventura, Nahóczky, Simon, Santos - Szűgyi, Hróason.

A 5-5-0 alignment was the formation of choice for Ozzy. The following players had been chosen: Nordbäck - Szukiewicz, Eitan, Michalica, Ashvetia, Gaskó - Miętkiewicz, Abdul Samad, Moorcroft, Peron, Strauss -.

Doves seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. For their match strategy, Ozzy had decided to use their ability to counter-attack whenever possible. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to K. Hróason, but the Doves player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, K. Hróason got himself booked. The manager of Doves was not happy. İ. Kama had a hard time on the waterlogged pitch - his trademark technique was nowhere in sight today. Doves's T. Báró saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 26 minutes. With the clock showing 27 minutes played, a great pass from the defensive line of Ozzy resulted in a counterattack that was smoothly brought under control by P. Miętkiewicz in the centre of the opposition's penalty area, but his finish went high. Doves had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks. B. Simon should probably have put his team up another goal after 28 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by O. Nordbäck kept the visitors in the game. Good work by the Ozzy defensive line after 29 minutes produced a good counterattack chance, which cut elegantly down the middle of the pitch and found E. Peron alone in front of the goal, but his shot whistled just wide. 31 minutes into the game, Ozzy seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a inadequate level of organisation. A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Doves's Á. Hammer increasing the lead to 2 - 0. O. Michalica of Ozzy was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. Halftime score was 2 - 0. Doves enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 64 percent of possession.

A review of the gameplan helped Ozzy get back to a solid organisation when the referee blew his whistle again. The coach of Doves was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 46 minutes, Z. Fellner came on for A. Santos. Cheers filled the stadium as Z. Fellner broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 3 - 0 to Doves. Confident in their lead, Doves's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. Ozzy had to make a substitution after 62 minutes. B. Ashvetia limped off the field and was replaced by J. Muckenfuss. 75 minutes into the game, Ozzy seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to passable. B. Simon slipped and slithered in the wet grass. His usual rapid runs were nowhere to be seen today. K. Hróason had a fantastic opportunity to put Doves up another goal 80 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. 81 minutes in, Ozzy appeared unsure on how to play and their organisation was only inadequate. 83 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as İ. Kama broke through, making the score 4 - 0 for Doves. Doves's T. Báró was shown a yellow card after 84 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Things were going to get worse for the visitors. G. Ventura squirmed through their central defence after 86 minutes, increasing the lead to 5 - 0. Possession in this half belonged to Doves, who controlled the ball 67 percent of the time.

İ. Kama performed admirably for Doves. However, B. Simon made a disastrous appearance. Ozzy's top performer was clearly O. Nordbäck. On the other hand, J. Muckenfuss's play was disheartening. The match ends 5 - 0.