blackrangers 0 - 1 GuessWhoAmI (393545910)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 1681 had shown up at black out arena for the match. Ronald Jung was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Augustín Chrástek and Gunvald Iversen. blackrangers decided to use a 3-4-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Svantesson - Wandel, Clemêncio, Nasser - Arasa de Miguel, Ruzzante, Bschorr, Paeßler - Miguel, Årvik.

GuessWhoAmI had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. The following players took the field: Arboleda - Mirković, Vasić, Paunić, Bojović - Veličković, Babović, Vićentijević, Gluščević - Četojević, Anastasijević.

blackrangers saw most attack opportunities on the wings. blackrangers made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left C. Paeßler completely alone with keeper E. Arboleda, who made a spectacular block. 6 minutes in, GuessWhoAmI's V. Veličković received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. F. Ruzzante of blackrangers had to be helped off the pitch as an injury meant he was unable to finish the game. F. Martin came in to finish the match. The blackrangers captaincy was handed to A. Clemêncio. blackrangers had a chance to take the lead after H. Årvik's dazzling drive up the left, but the opportunity fizzled out as his shot went just over the bar after 10 minutes. With 20 minutes played J. Bschorr almost gave the home side the lead with an unexpected free kick set up, but the visitors' E. Arboleda was onto it, grabbing the would be breakthrough ball. The guests took the lead 28 minutes into the match, after a right-side attack resulted in I. Anastasijević scoring to make it 0 - 1. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave I. Mirković from GuessWhoAmI a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 30 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 1. blackrangers had most of the ball, with 64 percent of possession.

Some fine passing in the middle of the pitch, carving open the away defence, should have led to a goal for blackrangers, but H. Årvik's shot went over the bar. After 63 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as blackrangers found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to inadequate. With 68 minutes played, blackrangers's H. Årvik found an opening in the visitors' left side defence, but his shot was handled easily by the keeper. blackrangers's T. Miguel made an attempt at equalising 70 minutes into the match, coming in from the right, but the ball hit the post and the defence easily cleared the rebound. 74 minutes into the game, blackrangers seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a weak level of organisation. Possession in this half belonged to blackrangers, who controlled the ball 63 percent of the time.

blackrangers's top performer was clearly F. Martin. P. Svantesson on the other hand, had a terrible day. V. Veličković performed admirably for GuessWhoAmI. On the other hand, U. Paunić's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 1.