Smurf-Cercle 0 - 9 blowers (357639186)

The 18389 fans in attendance at Smurf's Gelredome were roasting in the hot sun. Fred-Bernhard Rohd was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Francisco Pardo and Mikael Uusitalo. Everyone was excited about the upcoming West-Vlaanderen derby and the crowd was divided evenly. Smurf-Cercle had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. Starters: Van den Reym - Vandeweghe, Koele, Neuckermans, Franssen - Van Barel, Franchimont, Volders, Moens - Getteman, Deghilage.

blowers started off with a 4-3-3 lineup. The following players took the field: Torga - Abu-Ameen, Klimets, Adam, Sourd - Emmanuel, Rosine, Demuynck - Babul, Robledo, Moity.

The wings were the focus of most of blowers's attacks today. After 9 minutes, blowers put themselves up 0 - 1, as S. Sourd finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. blowers increased their lead after 21 minutes when M. Robledo broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 2, much to the home crowd's dismay. blowers had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. The home crowd was not impressed when C. Emmanuel came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 29 minutes. blowers were now up 0 - 3. M. Robledo enjoyed the sunshine and demonstrated his stunning technique over and over again. After 33 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed M. Robledo to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 4. blowers made it 0 - 5 as D. Babul got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to N. Klimets who whipped a low drive in off the far post. The players of blowers now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Halftime score was 0 - 5. Possession in this half belonged to blowers, who controlled the ball 67 percent of the time.

After 49 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for D. Moity who increased blowers's lead to 0 - 6. With 53 minutes played, blowers put themselves up 0 - 7 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was S. Demuynck. Against a lesser team, blowers could very well have succeeded with their smart indirect free kick routine after 57 minutes. A trio of passes took the ball all the way past the defenders, but by then the intended recipient was already blocked off and the keeper could make a leisurely save. 71 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 8 as S. Demuynck finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. S. Koele was suffering from cramp and had difficulty keeping up as the opposition pushed forward. D. Babul had no problems getting through and hit home to make the score 0 - 9. blowers had most of the ball, with 75 percent of possession.

Most important Smurf-Cercle player was J. Getteman. On the other hand, T. Neuckermans's play was disheartening. blowers's top performer was clearly D. Moity. S. Demuynck on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 9.