philosophes 0 - 7 slb (393610018)

A scorching day at Les Délices, where 742 spectators were in place for today's match. Peter Paul Harmide was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Tomi Mandelin and Adriano Matos. philosophes tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Mota Cunha - Curnow, Gibbon, Marjoriebanks - Lawless, Kirk, Flanagan, Parkin, Dolman - Oliphant, Gandy.

slb decided to use a 4-3-3 set up. The following players took the field: Blackshaw - Zámostný, Rosales, Bunjevac, Vitola - Overlack, Stanwood, Kandler - Larkin, Cheatle, Jacobitz.

Counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of slb. After 29 minutes, slb put themselves up 0 - 1, as T. Cheatle finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. With 32 minutes played, A. Lawless of philosophes fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. 36 minutes into the game, slb worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. The referee showed slb's F. Kandler the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. 41 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 2 as J. Zámostný finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. Halftime score was 0 - 2. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by slb, with 57 percent of the ball.

With 47 minutes played, R. Larkin 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. 51 minutes into the match, R. Larkin came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. With 64 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed B. Jacobitz of slb to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. slb's J. Bunjevac was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 70 minutes. J. Bunjevac of slb seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 0 - 4 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by C. Rosales. After 75 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed B. Jacobitz to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 5. After this, you could see that the players of slb were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Some fine movement on the left led to a slb goal after 83 minutes, making it 0 - 6. E. Overlack was noted down as the scorer. A drive down the left side allowed J. Zámostný to get in close and score another goal for slb after 84 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 7. slb claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 63 percent.

philosophes's best player was A. Lawless. A. Oliphant turned in a dismal performance, however. slb's top performer was clearly T. Cheatle. However, S. Stanwood made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 7.