Dragsla 1 - 3 kleines (392736335)

Dark skies made the crowd of 2622 at (=Dragon Slayers Arena=) a little nervous, but the rain held off. Roberto Speyer was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gastone Pillon and Selmar Hellmer. Dragsla had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players took the field: Ilomäki - Nieminen, Polo, Vahela - Tähkänen, Palmu, Pajunpää, Vainikka, Kekki - Vuokko, Alakarjula.

kleines started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Dushko - Zdravković, Ratzer, Sijard - Teymourtash, Tarasczyk, Contreras, Stippert, Hiltula - Sáez, Böning.

Dragsla were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. Making his way up the middle 8 minutes into the match, M. Vuokko almost managed to squeeze a goal past the visitors' keeper, but the alert E. Dushko blocked it to keep the score level. V. Böning had a good try after 15 minutes, coming in on a fine move from the left, but the ball went wide. Dragsla had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. After 28 minutes of play, S. Vahela gave the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right. kleines tied it all up, 34 minutes in, after a spectacular goal by S. Tarasczyk, who miraculously broke through the home side's central defence, making it 1 - 1. 35 minutes of the match played, and a comedy of errors by the home side gave the visitors a chance at the lead, but T. Sijard, after finding himself dashing down on goal from the left with only the keeper to beat, sliced his shot horribly wide. Halftime score was 1 - 1. Possession in this half belonged to Dragsla, who controlled the ball 51 percent of the time.

1 - 2 was the score with 48 minutes played, after T. Sijard cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for kleines. With 54 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed T. Sijard of kleines to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 1 - 3. After this, you could see that the players of kleines were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. A misunderstanding between the visitors' keeper E. Dushko and his left defence could have resulted in a goal for Dragsla, but M. Vuokko's finish was way too lame. Dragsla enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 52 percent of possession.

Most important Dragsla player was P. Pajunpää. T. Polo on the other hand, had a terrible day. S. Tarasczyk performed admirably for kleines. On the other hand, C. Ratzer's play was disheartening. The match ends 1 - 3.