Clouds darkened the skies at
El Estadio bau-team as 1219 spectators turned up for the match.
Paco Jerez was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Claus Lindekvist and
Matti Rahunen.
bau-team decided to use a 4-4-2 set up.
Starters: Navines - Ruda, Barva, Polić, Getz - Noniashvili, Jelić, Dal, Lindblom - Trilofos, Tomaszek.
team tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination.
The following players took the field: Wrzeszcz - Szentmiklósi, Sanz Delfa, Bajo - Gazonato, Bolotinsky, Dobnigg, Hyryläinen, Suchodelskis - Vreeman, Georgantas.
The wings were the focus of most of bau-team's attacks today.
Today, team's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks.
bau-team were pushed back, and had many dangerous counterattacks. An impressive one came 18 minutes into the match, but
S. Trilofos narrowly missed the free kick attempt that was awarded as a result of a foul.
bau-team's
P. Lindblom set up a perfect opportunity for
S. Trilofos, but the latter failed to score.
After 30 minutes, team's
R. Vreeman made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1.
After 32 minutes, team's
E. Bajo burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 2.
Players in team heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead.
A drive down the left side allowed
U. Bolotinsky to get in close and score another goal for team after 36 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 3.
After this, you could see that the players of team were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals.
E. Bajo of team was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle.
0 - 3 was the score after the first half.
team claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 63 percent.
Although the whole team were struggling to impress, bau-team's
P. Lindblom was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 46 minutes.
A. de la Sierra was given a chance to change things around.
Sensing defeat in the air, the bau-team manager directed
A. Getz and
M. Barva to change positions with each other. This was 46 minutes into the match.
With things not going too well on the field, the bau-team coach made the decision to swap the positions of
T. Ruda and
M. Polić with 46 minutes played.
After several obvious shirt pulling incidents,
S. Noniashvili got himself booked. The manager of bau-team was not happy.
The referee showed team's
A. Suchodelskis the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.
team enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 64 percent of possession.
M. Polić performed admirably for bau-team.
However,
A. Tomaszek made a disastrous appearance.
team's best player was
J. Dobnigg.
M. Wrzeszcz turned in a dismal performance, however.
The match ends 0 - 3.