Kriminaldo 4 - 3 BlomsterBørn (394265304)

The 1841 fans in attendance at Krimi Park were roasting in the hot sun. Paolo Piacentini was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Herbert Dworschak and Tero Ruotanen. Kriminaldo tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Starters: Saavedra - Enckevort, Röntgen - Ninevski, Skou, Bersano, Decayeux, Koglbauer - Kündighoven, Mosconi, Pasternak.

BlomsterBørn had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Elmose - Brunsgaard, Rantala, Sánchez Recio - Biernacki, Pyasetskiy, Bin-Ibraheem, Muckerwitz, Wiborg - Propersi, César.

Kriminaldo seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. Kriminaldo had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to F. Enckevort, but the Kriminaldo player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! H. Enevoldsen was called on to replace Kriminaldo's D. Ninevski after 5 minutes following a nasty collision. Several players seemed a little dazed by the warm weather, and were repeatedly tricked by the clever and agile E. Muckerwitz. Some brilliant football from the visitors' right wing resulted in a levelling of the score as BlomsterBørn's H. Wiborg put the ball in the onion bag after 25 minutes to make it 1 - 1. Some quick footwork on the left side of the field 26 minutes into the match left BlomsterBørn's E. Propersi completely free to score. 1 - 2 for the visitors. BlomsterBørn's E. Propersi made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 30 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defence 32 minutes into the match, an alert F. Kündighoven bagged the ball for Kriminaldo, levelling the score to 2 - 2. Some good play on the left wing created an opportunity for the visitors 35 minutes into the match, and Z. César wasn't about to let it go by. He got past the defenders and fired a shot that the keeper just missed. 2 - 3 for the visitors. 2 - 3 was the halftime score. Possession in this half belonged to BlomsterBørn, who controlled the ball 51 percent of the time.

V. Rantala wanted to play on, but the BlomsterBørn coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 46 minutes into the game by F. Cohen. Some fine passing in the middle of the pitch, carving open the away defence, should have led to a goal for Kriminaldo, but B. Skou's shot went over the bar. With a shot curled in from just outside the middle of the penalty area after 67 minutes played, M. Mosconi of Kriminaldo made the score 3 - 3. Central attacks were the recipe of the day for Kriminaldo, as they moved the ball from the wings to the middle with startling regularity. After a fine move down the middle M. Mosconi nearly gave the home side a goal after 68 minutes. However the finishing shot went just wide. 69 minutes into the game, E. Muckerwitz was a hair's breadth away from giving BlomsterBørn the lead with a shot from over on the left. A prompt block by R. Saavedra saved the home team that time. BlomsterBørn's E. Muckerwitz was shown a yellow card after 72 minutes for slicing down an opponent. The home side put themselves ahead 4 - 3 after 75 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from M. Mosconi, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. 77 minutes in, Kriminaldo's F. Enckevort received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. BlomsterBørn claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

Kriminaldo's best player was D. Bersano. However, R. Saavedra made a disastrous appearance. BlomsterBørn's top performer was clearly H. Wiborg. F. Cohen on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 3.