ritaline 0 - 5 Graves (394118878)

3728 fans braved the pouring rain at capital das vitorias. Syl Jodogne was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Meinte Tigro and Radboud Snooijink. ritaline decided to use a 5-3-1 set up. The following players took the field: Sousa - Lourenço, Oliveira, Train, Passing, Lourenço - Martins, Biltes, Domingues - Cardoso.

Graves tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Starters: Vanginderdeuren - Haro, Náyar, Peláez, Curo - Carpio, Chiappa, Massolino, Pretro - Novo, Abad.

Graves saw most attack opportunities on the wings. B. Cardoso spent most of the time in a heap on the ground today, his normally rapid movement hindered by the slippery pitch. After 7 minutes, Graves put themselves up 0 - 1, as C. Carpio finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. Graves's A. Peláez had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 19 minutes having been played. U. Ravanello was the replacement. A drive down the left side allowed Q. Náyar to get in close and score another goal for Graves after 27 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 2. The players of Graves now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. 34 minutes into the game, ritaline seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a inadequate level of organisation. With 35 minutes played, P. Curo nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, D. Lourenço got himself booked. The manager of ritaline was not happy. 42 minutes into the game, ritaline had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to inadequate. 0 - 2 was the halftime score. Graves enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 75 percent of possession.

The ritaline players spent the break getting a rerun of the team's tactical organisation and regained a solid organisation when the game started again. The coach of Graves was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 60 minutes, S. Medina came on for M. Chiappa. 71 minutes into the match, I. Novo came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave C. Carpio from Graves a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 73 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! 78 minutes into the game, Graves were awarded a penalty and P. Curo was able to increase the visitors' lead to 0 - 3 rolling the ball in by the right post. Graves increased their lead after 84 minutes when F. Abad broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 4, much to the home crowd's dismay. An indecisive keeper looked on as a free kick by Graves's P. Curo put the visitors up 0 - 5 after 85 minutes. Graves claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 76 percent.

Most important ritaline player was M. Passing. However, S. Sousa made a disastrous appearance. Graves's top performer was clearly I. Novo. P. Curo on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 5.