Milan 1 - 7 Tiszafüred (393597978)

Dark skies made the crowd of 854 at citi arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Robbie Devreese was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gavril Vãsâi and Björn Ahmaoja. Milan started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Hakasalo - Chiritã, Klarin, Dankó - Kobs, Mirbach, Lück, Madarász, Romhányi - Salling, D'Antoni.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Tiszafüred. The following players took the field: Delcorps - Frömmel, Kourentas, Torsson, Starkey - Marciano, Chwiećko, Zanter, Nordbratt - Albano, Fazekas.

Milan tried to focus their attacks down the middle. Milan made it 1 - 0 as B. Salling got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to E. Mirbach who whipped a low drive in off the far post. The visitors refused to give in and, after 4 minutes, K. Zanter evened things up as he finished off a perfect pass from the right. 1 - 1 With 6 minutes played, M. Madarász of Milan fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. The home crowd breathed a collective sigh of relief when T. Fazekas was unable to put the ball in the net after his show of skill down the left 17 minutes into the match. He was seen beating the pitch in frustration at missing such a good chance to give his team the lead! With 19 minutes played E. Mirbach almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. Tiszafüred's O. Torsson managed to lose the defenders as he advanced down the right wing and scored, putting the visitors ahead after 22 minutes. 1 - 2. With 30 minutes played, Tiszafüred put themselves up 1 - 3 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was U. Marciano. 31 minutes in, Milan's R. Kobs received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 3. Tiszafüred claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 55 percent.

After 48 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed C. Starkey to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 1 - 4. 79 minutes into the game, B. Nordbratt had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came F. Stöger. J. Albano of Tiszafüred took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 84 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 1 - 5. After this, you could see that the players of Tiszafüred were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. U. Marciano of Tiszafüred received a yellow card after 86 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. 87 minutes into the game, Tiszafüred worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. Tiszafüred increased their lead after 87 minutes when J. Albano broke through on the right, upping the score to 1 - 6, much to the home crowd's dismay. U. Marciano increased Tiszafüred's lead to 1 - 7 with a superb free kick strike that flew in just under the far top corner. Tiszafüred had most of the ball, with 62 percent of possession.

B. Salling performed admirably for Milan. However, J. Hakasalo made a disastrous appearance. Tiszafüred's best player was A. Chwiećko. S. Delcorps was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 7.