Torperdo 5 - 1 Drübasteiga (393623956)

Dark skies made the crowd of 2724 at Gang u hol mir no es Küehls us em Stübli Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Kacper Kuźmiński was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gábor Pór and Miomir Moštić. Torperdo tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Latte - Bleuten, Jarret, Nwanekezie - Neglia, Zane, Wetzel, Al-Aziz, Reppert - Tong Lim, Correcig.

Drübasteiga decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. Starters: Galet - Christiaensen, van Herpen, MacGillivray, Mela - Nagl, Frisch, Mäekala, Linz - Psota, Schäffle.

Q. Jarret behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 24 minutes as he gave the ball away to F. Psota. Lucky for him though, there was no goal. A foul after 27 minutes resulted in a free kick. J. Bleuten cannonballed it, giving the home team the lead 1 - 0. P. Zane unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. The home team will be cursing M. Mela for weeks; he finished off a great pass from the left, knocking it past the keeper without a problem. The match was level at 1 - 1 after 32 minutes. They were singing the praises of Q. Jarret 33 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 2 - 1 to Torperdo. It was 2 - 1 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to Torperdo, who controlled the ball 61 percent of the time.

P. Zane wanted to play on, but the Torperdo coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 48 minutes into the game by N. Razi. After 64 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and C. Tong Lim gave the Torperdo supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 3 - 1. The home side's J. Bleuten curled a free kick home after 67 minutes, putting Torperdo ahead 4 - 1. The players of Torperdo now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. After 74 minutes, N. Razi put Torperdo ahead 5 - 1 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Torperdo, with 67 percent of the ball.

The most dominating Torperdo player was without a doubt N. Razi. D. Nwanekezie was a disappointment, however. A. Mäekala performed admirably for Drübasteiga. On the other hand, P. Nagl's play was disheartening. The match ends 5 - 1.