lll.Arsenal.lll 0 - 5 Ruter7 (393068203)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 4993 had shown up at Emirates Hell for the match. Rajko Petroša was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ralph Benoit and Giorgio Chiellini. lll.Arsenal.lll started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Vanaki - Nikzamir, Rashki, Sucha - Broockmüller, Jeleč, Nasr Esfahani, Shahsavan, Mohammadkhani - Vytiv, Pendl.

Ruter7 had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. The following players took the field: Stavland - Ávila, Moen - Berntsen, Nerhus, Rasmussen, Troìa, Berger - Thommesen, Nilsen, Kader.

lll.Arsenal.lll clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle. Ruter7 mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. lll.Arsenal.lll's T. Shahsavan was shown a yellow card after 7 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Ruter7 were worse off though, as J. Nilsen was unable to finish the game and no more substitutes were available! F. Sucha received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly 27 minutes into the match, probably out of lack of experience, and almost let an opponent score. After 33 minutes lll.Arsenal.lll's F. Mohammadkhani had to be carried off on a stretcher in agony. C. Forte came in to replace him. Ruter7 took the lead 35 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. T. Berger was the scorer. A late sliding challenge from T. Shahsavan was deemed to be his second yellow card offence by the referee, resulting in him being sent off, and lll.Arsenal.lll left a man down. Due to a severely mistimed tackle, B. Berntsen of Ruter7 spent some time on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game. T. Moen increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 2. After 44 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for S. Troìa who increased Ruter7's lead to 0 - 3. 0 - 3 was the halftime score. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Ruter7, with 62 percent of the ball.

After 54 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed K. Thommesen to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 4. After this, you could see that the players of Ruter7 were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. 55 minutes into the match, B. Berntsen came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. After 62 minutes Ruter7's S. Troìa contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game. With 66 minutes played, Ruter7's T. Berger missed a penalty when the keeper made a premature dive in the right direction, and palmed the ball out of the way. It was obvious that team Ruter7 had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings. The visitors' S. Nerhus took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 69 minutes into the match. 0 - 5 for Ruter7. Ruter7 had most of the ball, with 62 percent of possession.

lll.Arsenal.lll's best player was C. Forte. S. Rashki on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Ruter7 player was S. Nerhus. R. Ávila was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 5.