atletico 5 - 0 Lanciano (392901467)

1087 spectators had come to "Gustavo Trigo" Pescara this cloudy day. Marcus Rinner was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Baldassarre Banzato and Sjur Karlsen. atletico tactics involved an interesting 3-4-3 combination. Starters: Scalisi - Pezzini, Rivi, Toro - Geiss, Tagini, Valiani, Alunno - Salomone, Gallina, Schäfler.

A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Lanciano. The following players had been chosen: Reccia - Sgarbossa, Orbáiz, Passarotto - Lanzi, Ruffinoni, Mingrino, Tormettino - Ignaciuk, Bourdon, Zacarias.

It was an obvious ambition of Lanciano to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. Players in Lanciano heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. J. Bourdon had a good opportunity to give Lanciano the lead as he charged down the right and struck the ball towards the top corner, but the home team's goalkeeper made the save. Lanciano had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 22 minutes in when O. Ruffinoni came up alone against S. Scalisi who managed a block. atletico fans held their breath as P. Pezzini scampered down the left side. He successfully avoided all challenges and cracked home the shot for 1 - 0! atletico's L. Rivi increased the lead to 2 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 30 minutes. 2 - 0 was the score after the first half. atletico enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 59 percent of possession.

The atletico players could smell victory in the air. M. Alunno wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for R. Campeggi after 46 minutes. The bench was restless, and with 46 minutes passed Lanciano's coach gave C. Sinde the opportunity the player had been hoping for. S. Passarotto reluctantly left the field. O. Schäfler wanted to play on, but the atletico coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 50 minutes into the game by C. Ferranti. Content with how the game was proceeding, the atletico coach let A. Arconte replace R. Tagini after 50 minutes. The atletico captaincy was handed to A. Arconte. Coming from the right, L. Valiani almost managed to score another goal for atletico, but his header was tipped over the bar by the visitors' keeper. With 61 minutes gone, a long pass from the defence of Lanciano resulted in a counterattack that set R. Zacarias free through the middle, but the keeper made a spectacular diving save. Lanciano had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. Cheers filled the stadium as C. Ferranti broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 3 - 0 to atletico. 73 minutes into the game, P. Sgarbossa had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came L. Pileci. After 79 minutes, J. Toro sent the corner kick right to L. Valiani who headed it sharply past the keeper. 4 - 0! Confident in their lead, atletico's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. Things were deteriorating for the away team as atletico scored another to make it 5 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for C. Ferranti after 82 minutes. atletico claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 60 percent.

atletico's top performer was clearly C. Ferranti. P. Pezzini turned in a dismal performance, however. M. Orbáiz performed admirably for Lanciano. M. Reccia on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 5 - 0.