Verts 0 - 7 Tunarit (393750004)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 764 at Gustav Paulig Stadium today. Yaron Mordechai was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Maurice Mundy and Remigiusz Pietras. Verts started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. They fielded: Pizzuti - Björkman, Fauchier, Maratopoulos - Armentano, Aro, Mačis, Zlotnikov - Venäläinen, Kankare, Pikki.

Tunarit tactics involved an interesting 5-3-2 combination. Lineup: Cecconi - Mokhov, Jakóbczak, Sommacal, Scheepstra, Viñas - Savagnone, Coa, Adolfsson - Ebner, Heeg.

Tunarit clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could. B. Jakóbczak finished off the counterattack of Tunarit from the left rather easily, making the score 0 - 1. The goal to make it 0 - 2 was scored by E. Viñas after 25 minutes, following an opportunistic counterattack down the middle by Tunarit. After this, you could see that the players of Tunarit were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. 30 minutes in, Verts's P. Björkman received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. After 31 minutes, Tunarit's A. Mokhov fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! Y. Scheepstra increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 3. 0 - 3 was the score after the first half. Tunarit claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 52 percent.

The home crowd was not impressed when A. Coa came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 57 minutes. Tunarit were now up 0 - 4. An indecisive keeper looked on as a free kick by Tunarit's A. Coa put the visitors up 0 - 5 after 67 minutes. The visitors' C. Heeg took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 74 minutes into the match. 0 - 6 for Tunarit. After 80 minutes, Tunarit's A. Mokhov burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 7. Tunarit had most of the ball, with 57 percent of possession.

Verts's best player was T. Venäläinen. F. Pizzuti on the other hand, had a terrible day. C. Heeg performed admirably for Tunarit. C. Savagnone was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 7.