pelates83 0 - 4 zwolsche (393434862)

2006 spectators arrived at Distinto Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Emanuele Prandini was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Kare Vuola and Giel Arentze. A 5-5-0 alignment was the formation of choice for pelates83. Lineup: Ntalavouras - Tabacchini, Moustopoulos, Buraco, Sankovskiy, Dolapsakis - Raillo, Idiazábal, Marazza, Vijod, Mészáros -.

zwolsche decided to use a 5-3-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Santirocchi - Şenel, Schmitzer, Krátký, Weber, Nepraš - Ruiz, Van De Walle, Loboda - Abrahamsen, Piplica.

pelates83 decided to play creatively. For their match strategy, zwolsche had decided to use their ability to counter-attack whenever possible. With 6 minutes played K. Moustopoulos almost gave the home side the lead with an unexpected free kick set up, but the visitors' D. Santirocchi was onto it, grabbing the would be breakthrough ball. 7 minutes into the game zwolsche managed a counterattack, but R. Piplica took a soft shot from the left flank that was easy prey for the alert keeper. The counterattacks of zwolsche were deadly and 12 minutes into the game, R. Piplica received a nice pass from the right flank, making it 0 - 1. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave C. Schmitzer from zwolsche a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 19 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! The visitors' C. Schmitzer took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 21 minutes into the match. 0 - 2 for zwolsche. The players of zwolsche now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. 23 minutes into the game, pelates83 seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to solid. After 27 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed R. Piplica to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 3. C. Schmitzer knew he was in trouble after hacking down an opponent. Despite his pleading with the referee, the zwolsche player was shown a second yellow card and dismissed from the game. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. pelates83 had most of the ball, with 52 percent of possession.

During the break, pelates83's coach went through the team's tactics yet again, getting them up to solid organisation. T. Loboda increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 4. With 59 minutes played, H. Van De Walle nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, J. Marazza got himself booked. The manager of pelates83 was not happy. This part of the game was a standoff between the teams in terms of possession.

J. Marazza performed admirably for pelates83. A. Ntalavouras was a disappointment, however. Most important zwolsche player was R. Piplica. F. Nepraš on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 4.