ARDEA 3 - 0 samos (392743825)

A brilliantly sunny day had enticed a crowd of 2177 to Airone. Ryan Gynne was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Narai Boon-nam and Till Collaud. ARDEA tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: Sansi - Tambor, Barata Pereira, Bartoszewicz - Rienks, Ramysen, Alexandre, Magutto, Bernardelli - Zachariassen, Głowala.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for samos. Lineup: Duprat - Avril, Sentenac, Barbe - Bertaud, Ribeyre, Akbal, Abanto, Gouyon - Rutana, Michel.

11 minutes into the match and the home team took a 1 - 0 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for ARDEA was H. Zachariassen. The ARDEA free kick 21 minutes into the match seemed wasted, as the shot was both short and off target. But was this actually a plan? The ball landed at the feet of F. Bernardelli, who was completely unmarked in the box. That's 2 - 0! At this point, it was obvious that the players of ARDEA lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. samos's S. Rutana was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 27 minutes. The crowd gasped as A. Tambor of ARDEA was flattened by an opponent after 34 minutes and had to be carried off. A. Argın came in off the bench. ARDEA's P. Sansi had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 40 minutes having been played. N. Bonaldo was the replacement. A. Argın could have put ARDEA up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 42 minutes. 2 - 0 was the halftime score. ARDEA claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 58 percent.

samos's right side looked dangerous after 68 minutes, as P. Ribeyre broke through. N. Bonaldo continued to stifle them, however, as he made the save look easy. With 82 minutes played, ARDEA's H. Zachariassen almost extended the lead, but his shot from the left glanced off the top of the bar to fall behind the net. It wasn't a good day at all for M. Barata Pereira. His powerful style of play just didn't fit the bill on this warm day. ARDEA made it 3 - 0 as D. Głowala got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to A. Rienks who whipped a low drive in off the far post. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by ARDEA, with 60 percent of the ball.

ARDEA's top performer was clearly B. Alexandre. N. Bonaldo turned in a dismal performance, however. R. Abanto performed admirably for samos. S. Rutana was a disappointment, however. The match ends 3 - 0.