Scarparo 5 - 0 EAGLE (393808247)

Dark skies made the crowd of 3071 at Luigi Pastena di Battipaglia a little nervous, but the rain held off. Gouke Haagen was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Dan Lupu and Heine Vinther. Scarparo had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. They fielded: Picasso - Allocco, Di Gaudio - Caprarelli, Vanhala, Espasa, Stosik, Varano - Isca, Bucciol, Messere.

EAGLE tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: van Daatselaar - Lopes Gonçalves, van der Oord, Dirdal - Orie, Heiligers, Zwier, den Ridder, Finkers - Dale, Baardman.

It was an obvious ambition of EAGLE to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. D. Allocco caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 3 minutes. This gave Scarparo the 1 - 0 lead. Scarparo's V. Messere had an excellent opportunity after 10 minutes, shooting after receiving a pass from the right hand side, but he missed the goal by miles! The referee showed EAGLE's R. van der Oord the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. After 29 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and D. Varano gave the Scarparo supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0. Scarparo nearly produced a goal as M. Di Gaudio set up F. Bucciol for a strike from a seemingly impossible angle. However he put the shot narrowly wide. Scarparo's M. Espasa swung in a good chance from the left, but the visitors' defence were able to clear the ball. Scarparo put in a good effort on the right, but V. Messere saw his volley fly wide of the mark 40 minutes into the game. P. Dale had a couple of good opportunities to reply, but the home team's keeper P. Picasso was simply unbeatable. R. van der Oord remonstrated furiously with the referee after EAGLE had another decision go against them. The referee had no alternative but to show him another yellow card and send him from the pitch. 2 - 0 was the score after the first half. Scarparo enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 68 percent of possession.

50 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as T. Stosik broke through, making the score 3 - 0 for Scarparo. Scarparo's F. Bucciol struck his penalty well enough to beat the goalkeeper and extend the home team's lead to 4 - 0 after 60 minutes. Scarparo managed to extend their lead to 5 - 0 when P. Vanhala cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. After this, you could see that the players of Scarparo were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Scarparo had most of the ball, with 67 percent of possession.

Scarparo's best player was T. Stosik. On the other hand, V. Messere's play was disheartening. Ø. Dirdal performed admirably for EAGLE. However, T. van Daatselaar made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 5 - 0.