M.O.A.B 0 - 3 F.C.bobbo (393366404)

Dark skies made the crowd of 988 at MOAB Stadium a little nervous, but the rain held off. Iker Arteagaereñotza was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gil Wagener and Juozapotas Nariukas. M.O.A.B tactics involved an interesting 4-5-1 combination. Lineup: Candia - Marini, Laureano, Furacão, Dantas - Bola, Marcos, Medda, Jabnoun, Buarque - Weissglass.

F.C.bobbo started off with a 4-5-1 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Gramanet - Aliberti, Turek, Bologna, Perucchini - De Simei, Piacitelli, Negrin, Pelliciari, Di Giovanni - Righi.

M.O.A.B mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. Today, F.C.bobbo's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. T. Negrin of F.C.bobbo seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 0 - 1 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by K. Turek. Some fine movement on the left led to a F.C.bobbo goal after 6 minutes, making it 0 - 2. S. Bologna was noted down as the scorer. After 12 minutes, J. Bola had a good opportunity to reduce the scoreline for M.O.A.B with a chance created through the middle, but wasn't cool enough. The ball went miles over the bar. A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from M. Piacitelli after 29 minutes, and prevented F.C.bobbo from going up another goal. M.O.A.B's A. Laureano was shown a yellow card after 35 minutes for slicing down an opponent. A. Righi of F.C.bobbo took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 37 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 3. At this point, it was obvious that the players of F.C.bobbo lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. 0 - 3 was the halftime score. M.O.A.B had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

M.O.A.B had a magnificent opportunity after 59 minutes as F. Marcos hit the ball hard from the edge of the penalty box. However, the shot went wide. It was obvious that team M.O.A.B had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings. 77 minutes into the game, M.O.A.B seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a inadequate level of organisation. Some things can only be learned through experience, and F. Marcos should take his lesson to heart after nearly gifting F.C.bobbo a goal with 86 minutes of the match played. The cannonball from 35 metres by A. Medda of M.O.A.B was an impressive sight, but didn't make it into the net. F.C.bobbo's M. Piacitelli made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 89 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line. M.O.A.B claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 56 percent.

M.O.A.B's best player was A. Laureano. F. Candia on the other hand, had a terrible day. F.C.bobbo's top performer was clearly A. Righi. On the other hand, K. Turek's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 3.