Babai 3 - 1 FlaReal (393240599)

It had rained all day, but 37766 hardy fans still made it out to Babaizão. Alexandre Reissert was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Göran Fickånger and Athina Carhuaricra. Babai tactics involved an interesting 3-4-3 combination. The following players took the field: Ferrant - Cômodo, Paio, Calixto - Takounidis, Cyboroń, Rosendo, Alford - Repolho, Muleta, Moura Reis.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for FlaReal. Lineup: Paulista - Fernandes, Etxegarai, Vesamäki - Marconi, Köllő, Cannegieter, Eglund, Keresztúri - Hinz, Pons.

Babai broke through on the left 24 minutes into the game, with S. Repolho firing in from an acute angle to give the home side a 1 - 0 lead. M. Cyboroń should probably have put his team up another goal after 40 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by E. Paulista kept the visitors in the game. Halftime score was 1 - 0. Babai had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

M. Cyboroń was having a great game - if anything the pouring rain seemed to be spurring him on! 64 minutes into the match H. Rosendo put Babai ahead 2 - 0 with a truly marvelous free kick. F. Pons was struggling to make the ball dance with his usual trickery and panache, and the opposing players had little trouble shutting him down in these muddy conditions. U. Paio could have put Babai up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 70 minutes. FlaReal played a good counterattacking move down the left 71 minutes into the match, with F. Pons finishing well for 2 - 1. Cheers filled the stadium as E. Muleta broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 3 - 1 to Babai. At this point, it was obvious that the players of Babai lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Babai, with 57 percent of the ball.

Most important Babai player was M. Cyboroń. On the other hand, M. Ferrant's play was disheartening. J. Vesamäki performed admirably for FlaReal. F. Pons on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 1.