Alvarged 3 - 1 Crystall (392924912)

799 spectators arrived at Alvargarden, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Ahindra Parmar was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Sandro Wald and Luciano Aguiar. A 5-5-0 alignment was the formation of choice for Alvarged. The following players had been chosen: Kammer - Steinau, Gichure, Harding, Andreassen, Steenberger - Juul, Skriver, Wittendorff, West, Sander -.

Crystall tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. They fielded: Roßgotterer - Trieger, Meidericher, Ruhrpott, Lunzer - Üdingen, Lienen, Münstereifel, Claudius - Atılay, Neumer.

Crystall were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. A. Kammer would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise. B. Hastrup entered the game for Alvarged as the match clock showed 1 minutes. Crystall's M. Atılay was shown a yellow card after 6 minutes for slicing down an opponent. 33 minutes into the game, Alvarged seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a weak level of organisation. Almost all the way down to the corner flag, Alvarged's J. Sander somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for I. Juul, who struck for 1 - 0. With 41 minutes played, B. Skriver of Alvarged fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. Halftime score was 1 - 0. Alvarged had most of the ball, with 53 percent of possession.

The coach gave his players an extra tactical briefing during the break, and after that Alvarged had passable organisation. After 50 minutes, B. Skriver made a complete fool of himself when he presented the ball to the feet of S. Claudius who smashed it into the open goal for Crystall. 1 - 1. Alvarged's C. Wittendorff got himself booked for a foul. 63 minutes had elapsed when a great chance for Alvarged to take the lead after a good cross from the right found J. Sander alone with the keeper, but he chipped it to the wrong side of the post. After 65 minutes of play, Z. Steinau gave the home team a 2 - 1 lead after an attack coming in from the right. 66 minutes in, Alvarged appeared unsure on how to play and their organisation was only inadequate. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of Alvarged to 3 - 1 as C. Wittendorff finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. 83 minutes in, Crystall's T. Trieger received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. When M. Gichure was badly injured by a couple of strong tackles after 84 minutes, Alvarged fans were unhappy to discover that it was not possible to make a substitution. Alvarged enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 62 percent of possession.

Most important Alvarged player was A. West. I. Harding was a disappointment, however. The most dominating Crystall player was without a doubt E. Üdingen. On the other hand, K. Neumer's play was disheartening. The match ends 3 - 1.