Bavaria 2 - 0 leto0708 (392894690)

1567 spectators had come to Veltins-Arena Auf Schalke this cloudy day. José García Arroba was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Flavio Summa and Nicola Romantini. A 5-4-1 alignment was the formation of choice for Bavaria. They fielded: Klyushin - Rossbacher, Spielbichler, Lim, Vandensteen, Odhan - Oechsle, Killi, Mörken, Mende - Blattnig.

leto0708 decided to use a 5-2-3 set up. The following players had been chosen: Badenes - Neiße, Agostinelli, Bertolini, Baroncini, Jarošinec - Ciervo, Chavatte - Serra, Puczkowski, Stadler.

Bavaria seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. They were singing the praises of K. Blattnig 17 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 1 - 0 to Bavaria. S. Badenes was caught napping as P. Rossbacher lifted a ball over him following a free kick, but the ball hit the bar, rebounding into the keeper's arms. The visitors' E. Puczkowski came close to levelling the score after 29 minutes with a free kick that went just wide of the top left corner. 38 minutes into the game, leto0708 seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to inadequate. Coming from the right, S. Lim almost managed to score another goal for Bavaria, but his header was tipped over the bar by the visitors' keeper. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Bavaria, with 77 percent of the ball.

Despite his frustration resulting in the smashing of a few teacups, the coach of leto0708 was able to get his message across, and raised leto0708's organisation to solid. Bavaria's M. Mörken was shown a yellow card after 47 minutes for slicing down an opponent. The player down was O. Stadler. The leto0708 bench looked worried for a while, but in the end he managed to get up. After 67 minutes a well-practised indirect free kick routine by Bavaria was easily anticipated by the defenders. The players forward were so well marked, they were left with few viable options. Bavaria were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. K. Blattnig should probably have put his team up another goal after 69 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by S. Badenes kept the visitors in the game. R. Vandensteen received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly 71 minutes into the match, probably out of lack of experience, and almost let an opponent score. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave R. Jarošinec from leto0708 a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 78 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! A loud groan was heard from the fans of Bavaria, as S. Lim left the pitch in too much pain to finish the match. M. Kirtzel took his place on the field. Cheers filled the stadium as L. Killi broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 2 - 0 to Bavaria. Bavaria enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 76 percent of possession.

Bavaria's best player was L. Killi. M. Kirtzel on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating leto0708 player was without a doubt O. Stadler. On the other hand, S. Badenes's play was disheartening. The match ends 2 - 0.