splints 0 - 8 ChosenOnes (392826037)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and shin splints Arena saw a crowd turnout of 51040. Juss Neemre was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Umberto Zara and Malte Kresmer. splints decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Allemann - Medgyesi, Pęczek, Ganshorn - Butterhoff, Vivar, Plant, Bravo, Buga - Király, Eleftheroudakis.

ChosenOnes tactics involved an interesting 3-4-3 combination. Lineup: Gustavsson - Helppolainen, Chambers, Hill - Chaplain, MacPhedran, Porter, Banghöj - Andrews, Ullman, Gaize.

Today, splints's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. ChosenOnes were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. The visiting M. Hill was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 4 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 0 - 1 was the score. With 21 minutes played, splints's V. Király found an opening in the visitors' left side defence, but his shot was handled easily by the keeper. ChosenOnes had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. I. Andrews of ChosenOnes took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 27 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 2. After 38 minutes, ChosenOnes's T. Chaplain burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 3. splints's T. Ganshorn had a nice free kick routine after 39 minutes that was very close to paying off, had it not been for a dramatic save by the visitors' keeper. An amazing free kick flew past the home keeper 41 minutes into the match, putting ChosenOnes ahead 0 - 4. T. Helppolainen was the scorer. The players of ChosenOnes now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. The visitors added to their lead 44 minutes into the game, after a sensational penalty kick by ChosenOnes's T. Helppolainen slid just past the home keeper. 0 - 5. Halftime score was 0 - 5. ChosenOnes had most of the ball, with 51 percent of possession.

The bench was restless, and with 75 minutes passed splints's coach gave J. Oršulák the opportunity the player had been hoping for. T. Plant reluctantly left the field. P. Ullman increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 6. splints's T. Medgyesi was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 78 minutes. 79 minutes in, splints's C. Vivar received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Almost all the way down to the corner flag, ChosenOnes's T. Chaplain somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for I. Andrews, who struck for 0 - 7. With 85 minutes played, ChosenOnes put themselves up 0 - 8 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was A. Chambers. Possession in this half belonged to ChosenOnes, who controlled the ball 52 percent of the time.

splints's best player was Y. Eleftheroudakis. J. Oršulák on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important ChosenOnes player was I. Andrews. P. Ullman was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 8.