CULERS 0 - 2 Atlético (393868274)

2116 fans braved the pouring rain at The fortress. Tuomas Huhtaniska was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ödön Pócsik and Markus O. Hautala. CULERS tactics involved an interesting 5-2-3 combination. Lineup: Gunasekar - Rasheed, van Wegen, Abbasi, Mroncz, Treijtel - Das, Iosim - Cieplak, Dubois, Garedakis.

Atlético had chosen a strategic 4-5-1 formation. They fielded: Słoka - Nogués, Olazábal Solís, Majó, Dalmases - Matyáš, Company, Trigueros, Aeeiman, Gaztañaga - Paz.

Some quick footwork on the left side of the field 10 minutes into the match left Atlético's M. Majó completely free to score. 0 - 1 for the visitors. With the scoreboard showing that 25 minutes had been played, Atlético nearly put themselves up another goal after U. Aeeiman came through on the left. Fortunately for the home crowd, the keeper made the save. It was a bad day for the usually speedy A. Paz. The mud seemed to slow him down. D. Gunasekar got a fingertip on U. Aeeiman's shot from the left 39 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal. 0 - 1 was the score after the first half. Atlético claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 84 percent.

The coach of Atlético was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 46 minutes, M. Mantilla came on for S. Matyáš. As the match clock hit 46 minutes, Atlético regrouped to try and keep their initiative in the game. F. Gaztañaga high-fived N. Trigueros as they swapped positions on the team. N. Trigueros was uncomfortable with the soggy pitch as he couldn't move the ball around with his usual grace. A. Paz wanted to play on, but the Atlético coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 75 minutes into the game by A. Chubarev. 78 minutes in, CULERS's O. Rasheed received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. With 86 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed A. Chubarev of Atlético to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 2. After this, you could see that the players of Atlético were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Atlético enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 83 percent of possession.

Z. Cieplak performed admirably for CULERS. S. Abbasi turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating Atlético player was without a doubt A. Chubarev. On the other hand, M. Mantilla's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 2.