Torrelavega 3 - 1 C.Guarapuava (394117126)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Campos del Malecón saw a crowd turnout of 2226. Edmund Holzschuh was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ezequiel Vázquez and Janek Hennoste. Torrelavega started off with a 5-4-1 lineup. The following players took the field: Laksola - Boitani, Romero, Martín Cerro, Block, Brescia - Coussot, Redl, Santos Cordeiro, Lhuillier - Dželilović.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for C.Guarapuava. The following players had been chosen: Bastianoni - Cadoche, Kettunen, Delissen - Niklasson, Didkovskiy, Pricoco, Broome, Oude Sogtoen - Fresquet, Ferra.

Counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of Torrelavega. C.Guarapuava tried to focus their attacks down the middle. Torrelavega took the lead after 11 minutes as a result of S. Lhuillier's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. C.Guarapuava had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks. After 16 minutes, the visitors levelled the scores after D. Fresquet made it through the middle and struck home to make it 1 - 1. The home side put themselves ahead 2 - 1 after 39 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from S. Santos Cordeiro, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. After 43 minutes C.Guarapuava's U. Cadoche contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game. It was 2 - 1 at the break. Torrelavega enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 53 percent of possession.

Torrelavega's S. Romero had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 77 minutes having been played. R. Cayo was the replacement. With 78 minutes played, Torrelavega's well-worked indirect free kick caused havoc in the penalty area, and when the ball eventually fell to M. Coussot he gleefully slotted the ball home to make it 3 - 1. At this point, it was obvious that the players of Torrelavega lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave S. Santos Cordeiro from Torrelavega a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 83 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! Torrelavega claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

F. Boitani performed admirably for Torrelavega. On the other hand, S. Lhuillier's play was disheartening. Most important C.Guarapuava player was D. Fresquet. L. Bastianoni on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 1.