unksenseiteam 1 - 5 Bobruisk (394190788)

The crowd of 3334 turning up at Sensei Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Osman Kargı was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Marco Bahler and Björn ''Brenne'' Iskvist. unksenseiteam tactics involved an interesting 5-4-1 combination. They fielded: Oró - Sandoval, Pernía, Pérez Urbina, Cana, Ventura - Fernández Moreno, García de Coaña, Blanco, Pumpido - Boistard.

Bobruisk had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Mazulenia - Pakura, Păsărică, Pankavec - Sapranovich, Matvienka, Pantsakou, Yarusevich, Biely - Kasianovich, Barcelo.

It was an obvious ambition of unksenseiteam to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. 1 minutes into the match, the referee signalled for a unksenseiteam substitution. A. Pastor Merino came on for J. Oró. S. García de Coaña would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise. S. Etxeberriartza entered the game for unksenseiteam as the match clock showed 1 minutes. After 1 minutes, the unksenseiteam coach wanted to see a new face on the pitch, waving N. Boistard off the field. A. Areitikaurtena took his place. A. Areitikaurtena was handed the unksenseiteam captain's armband. D. Ventura slipped and slithered in the wet grass. His usual rapid runs were nowhere to be seen today. With 16 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. M. Barcelo put the ball away for 0 - 1. The game was characterised by rough play and many physical challenges on the wet field, but J. Sapranovich showed great heart and had a good game. Some fine movement on the left led to a Bobruisk goal after 23 minutes, making it 0 - 2. T. Biely was noted down as the scorer. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, A. Blanco got himself booked. The manager of unksenseiteam was not happy. 42 minutes into the game, unksenseiteam seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a solid level of organisation. The referee showed Bobruisk's D. Kasianovich the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. The home crowd was not impressed when M. Pakura came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 43 minutes. Bobruisk were now up 0 - 3. Halftime score was 0 - 3. Possession in this half belonged to Bobruisk, who controlled the ball 68 percent of the time.

The coach gave his players an extra tactical briefing during the break, and after that unksenseiteam had solid organisation. With 55 minutes played, Bobruisk put themselves up 0 - 4 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was D. Kasianovich. A. Areitikaurtena was struggling to make the ball dance with his usual trickery and panache, and the opposing players had little trouble shutting him down in these muddy conditions. The unksenseiteam free kick 60 minutes into the match seemed wasted, as the shot was both short and off target. But was this actually a plan? The ball landed at the feet of F. Fernández Moreno, who was completely unmarked in the box. That's 1 - 4! 63 minutes in, unksenseiteam's F. Fernández Moreno received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. After 76 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as unksenseiteam found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to inadequate. F. Fernández Moreno knew he was in trouble after hacking down an opponent. Despite his pleading with the referee, the unksenseiteam player was shown a second yellow card and dismissed from the game. After 80 minutes, unksenseiteam's A. Pastor Merino fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! With 84 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed J. Sapranovich of Bobruisk to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 1 - 5. Confident in their lead, Bobruisk's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. unksenseiteam's D. Pumpido was shown a yellow card after 86 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Bobruisk claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 76 percent.

D. Pumpido performed admirably for unksenseiteam. On the other hand, A. Pastor Merino's play was disheartening. Bobruisk's top performer was clearly M. Barcelo. J. Pankavec was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 5.