FFC 3 - 6 St.Gallen_1879 (394188156)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and KARAKOL saw a crowd turnout of 1915. Jens Abersek was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Hinz Endt and Grigore Varga. FFC tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Starters: Yadigar - Hasna, Linet - Cura, Mata, Bourdais, Elgin, Zamir - Tatara, Sevik, Leylim.

St.Gallen_1879 had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Duñabeitia - Macquart, Lalis, Niffenegger - Sermeter, Sagron, Paulsson, Filipczuk, Poças - Shukurov, Midor.

FFC tried to focus their attacks down the middle. The strategy for St.Gallen_1879 was to use their ability to press. St.Gallen_1879's J. Macquart managed to lose the defenders as he advanced down the right wing and scored, putting the visitors ahead after 11 minutes. 0 - 1. After 27 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed J. Midor to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 2. Some fine movement on the left led to a St.Gallen_1879 goal after 37 minutes, making it 0 - 3. A. Shukurov was noted down as the scorer. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. Possession in this half belonged to St.Gallen_1879, who controlled the ball 53 percent of the time.

The home crowd was not impressed when J. Macquart came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 47 minutes. St.Gallen_1879 were now up 0 - 4. The coach of St.Gallen_1879 was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 48 minutes, D. Ey came on for S. Sermeter. The home crowd was given a certain amount of consolation when S. Cura scored after a brilliant midfield combination through the centre, reducing the lead to 1 - 4. Content with how the game was proceeding, the St.Gallen_1879 coach let S. Barteselli replace S. Poças after 64 minutes. FFC's fans were urging them forward as they tried to get back into the game, and their vocal support was rewarded 65 minutes into the match as T. Leylim ran onto a beautiful ball played through the visitors' defence and slotted it past the keeper to reduce the deficit. 2 - 4. With 69 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed D. Ey of St.Gallen_1879 to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 2 - 5. The St.Gallen_1879 players could smell victory in the air. H. Niffenegger wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for M. Riesselmann after 80 minutes. What ever got into M. Riesselmann, the crowd mumbled, as he suddenly struck a cross pass through his own defence - ending up right in front of FFC's T. Leylim, who easily put the ball away for 3 - 5 after 84 minutes. After 85 minutes, St.Gallen_1879's S. Barteselli burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 3 - 6. St.Gallen_1879 claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 54 percent.

T. Leylim performed admirably for FFC. On the other hand, G. Linet's play was disheartening. The most dominating St.Gallen_1879 player was without a doubt J. Midor. However, M. Riesselmann made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 3 - 6.