gotham 0 - 4 Jags (393059938)

46686 spectators arrived at GARGOYLES PIT, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Giorgio Alippi was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rainer Cavalli and Jonas Bøgholm. A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for gotham. Lineup: Lugo - De Roeck, Kiepski, van der Veer - Ronconi, Stanzani, Schillings, Hernesaho - Kursevičius, Grünewald, Kostantinoyiannopoulos.

Jags tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: London - Dolan, Mazajka, Becchio - Galben, 国山 (Guoshan) , Obregón, Bagley, Luyckx - Dexter, Gipson.

gotham were relying on their ability to counter-attack. The wings were the focus of most of Jags's attacks today. Some good play on the left wing created an opportunity for the visitors 19 minutes into the match, and C. Dexter wasn't about to let it go by. He got past the defenders and fired a shot that the keeper just missed. 0 - 1 for the visitors. Attacking on the wings was the choice for Jags, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. With 25 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed A. Gipson of Jags to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 2. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, M. Hernesaho got himself booked. The manager of gotham was not happy. It was obvious that Jags had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. Jags were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. Some fine movement on the left led to a Jags goal after 33 minutes, making it 0 - 3. R. Mazajka was noted down as the scorer. Confident in their lead, Jags's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Bagley from Jags a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 34 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! It was 0 - 3 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to Jags, who controlled the ball 64 percent of the time.

Players in Jags heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. M. Lugo got a fingertip on D. Galben's shot from the left 48 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal. 尹. 国山 (Guoshan) of Jags took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 56 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 4. D. Galben could have put his team up another goal 58 minutes into the game, after a rush down the left, but his closing shot hit the post. With the scoreboard showing that 63 minutes had been played, Jags nearly put themselves up another goal after R. Obregón came through on the left. Fortunately for the home crowd, the keeper made the save. Jags had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, gotham's V. Kursevičius was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 85 minutes. J. Reichhuber was given a chance to change things around. Jags claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 64 percent.

gotham's best player was P. Kiepski. J. Reichhuber was a disappointment, however. The most dominating Jags player was without a doubt C. Dexter. On the other hand, D. Galben's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 4.