Ploiesti 1 - 3 mama (349877593)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 12883 to Inferno. Marko Jonninen was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Friedhelm Rogalla and Giovanni Diodato. Ploiesti had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Starters: Fercan - Arkın, Hirsfelds, Mereu - Petrică, Keister, Callejas, Radzickas, Slet-Pedersen - Decu, Colmelo.

mama decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Ruiz - Chlebowski, Chalot, Omelianovitch, Haro - Abdrakhmanov, Rasovas, Bugailiškis, Avornicesei - Biesma, Ciupek.

Down the middle came B. Ciupek, making a fantastic play that nearly had mama take the lead after 22 minutes, but S. Fercan preserved the tie. mama's I. Omelianovitch was shown a yellow card after 32 minutes for slicing down an opponent. After 35 minutes, mama put themselves up 0 - 1, as T. Rasovas finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. It was 0 - 1 at the break. Ploiesti had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

The coach of mama was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 46 minutes, M. Aşir came on for G. Biesma. M. Colmelo made a superb strike after 54 minutes with a shot straight in front of the goal after a long ball through the middle, but one of the visitors' defenders got a foot in at the last second and warded it off for a corner. The corner kick from M. Colmelo was powerfully met by the head of L. Keister to make the score 1 - 1. K. Chlebowski received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly 72 minutes into the match, probably out of lack of experience, and almost let an opponent score. Some quick footwork on the left side of the field 76 minutes into the match left mama's I. Omelianovitch completely free to score. 1 - 2 for the visitors. The referee showed Ploiesti's A. Hirsfelds the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. After 85 minutes, an incisive pass through the middle gave D. Avornicesei a chance to increase the lead for mama, and he did not disappoint. The score was then 1 - 3. Ploiesti claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 54 percent.

D. Callejas performed admirably for Ploiesti. However, A. Mereu made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating mama player was without a doubt M. Aşir. Y. Abdrakhmanov on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 1 - 3.