2004 5 - 0 Tallica (393605314)

The crowd of 58691 turning up at HP 2004 Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Cristi Alexa was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Albert Canevet and Fredrik Gulbrandsen. 2004 tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: Severinsen - Fast Hansen, Dorne, Teglborg - Schultz, Lønbæk, Junker, Kirk, Stausholm - Andersen, Byrdal.

Tallica decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Starters: Abramski - Naumann, Vedby Rasmussen, Zapata - Thorshauge, Smed, Krogh, Carstensen, Berthelot - Keskintürk, van der Enk.

Today, Tallica's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. 2004 had a chance to take the lead after N. Junker's dazzling drive up the left, but the opportunity fizzled out as his shot went just over the bar after 9 minutes. The boggy pitch disrupted the game, especially for technical players like E. Vedby Rasmussen. After 17 minutes of play, N. Junker gave the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right. There was concern in the stands when, at the 31 minute mark, Tallica's F. Carstensen hit the ground hard, but he refused the attention of the trainer and rejoined his teammates on the pitch. A great save by keeper Y. Abramski after 33 minutes kept the visitors in the game after R. Byrdal struck from the left with a real cannonball. After 34 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and R. Byrdal gave the 2004 supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0. After this, you could see that the players of 2004 were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Schultz from 2004 a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 37 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! H. Stausholm's speed is always a threat when he gets a little room to move, and 38 minutes into the match was no different as he broke free of his man to send a delightful through ball to C. Andersen who knocked it in for 2004. 3 - 0! 2004 solidified their lead at the 39 minute mark, as A. Schultz dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 4 - 0. The teams went for the halftime break at 4 - 0. 2004 enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 60 percent of possession.

56 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as F. Teglborg broke through, making the score 5 - 0 for 2004. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, Tallica's A. van der Enk was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 75 minutes. R. Stoye was given a chance to change things around. A. Schultz's tried to storm through the defence after 77 minutes, but A. Zapata was just too fast to shake off and the rest of the defence got back to cover. It was a bad day for the usually speedy C. Andersen. The mud seemed to slow him down. After 87 minutes 2004's M. Severinsen contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game. 2004 had most of the ball, with 62 percent of possession.

2004's best player was D. Lønbæk. However, Y. Dorne made a disastrous appearance. Tallica's top performer was clearly G. Smed. K. Thorshauge on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 5 - 0.