Barça 4 - 1 ataturk (363850018)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and CampNou saw a crowd turnout of 2048. Gottfried Rom was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Mimmo Montresor and Johan Tellholt. Barça decided to use a 5-2-3 set up. They fielded: Marro - Pedragosa, Krzymiński, Jimenez, Pessa, Puigmartí - Bäumler, Bąkiewicz - Gurkowski, Kuchnowski, Maternowski.

A 4-3-3 alignment was the formation of choice for ataturk. The following players had been chosen: Picasso - Pini, Maurides, Donze, Filattiera - Portera, Merivot, Glezman - Ammassari, Decembrino, Cifelli.

ataturk were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. 15 minutes in, ataturk appeared unsure on how to play and their organisation was only weak. M. Gurkowski caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 23 minutes. This gave Barça the 1 - 0 lead. The referee showed ataturk's M. Filattiera the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. M. Gurkowski increased the lead for Barça to 2 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! After this, you could see that the players of Barça were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. After 27 minutes, Barça were awarded a free kick. Rather than shooting straight at goal, the taker went for an indirect variant which seemed to take his team mates a bit by surprise. A. Kuchnowski did attempt a finish, but from an awkward position, sending the ball into the away fans. After 30 minutes, A. Maternowski put Barça ahead 3 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. T. Kinash was called on to replace ataturk's G. Cifelli after 32 minutes following a nasty collision. S. Bąkiewicz could have increased the lead after 33 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park. Halftime score was 3 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Barça, with 63 percent of the ball.

A review of the gameplan helped ataturk get back to a passable organisation when the referee blew his whistle again. ataturk had a fair chance to reply after 57 minutes due to some fine moves down the left, but in the end V. Ammassari was slow to keep up with the play and was unable to make it into the penalty box to apply a finish. Barça put themselves up 4 - 0 when N. Pessa broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. Ater 83 minutes C. Portera seized on an opportunistic attack from the right, and scored for ataturk making it 4 - 1. 84 minutes into the game, ataturk had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to poor. It was obvious that ataturk had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. Coming in from the right, ataturk had a good opportunity to convert on a counterattack after 87 minutes, but D. Merivot's attempt to finish was easily stopped. Possession in this half belonged to Barça, who controlled the ball 63 percent of the time.

Barça's best player was A. Kuchnowski. A. Marro was a disappointment, however. ataturk's top performer was clearly T. Kinash. On the other hand, M. Filattiera's play was disheartening. The match ends 4 - 1.