F.C.Barça 4 - 3 toobik (366639540)

Clear skies welcomed the 1655 spectators who had made their way to F.C.Barça Juniores Arena. Jörg Ghini was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Justus Baerenfaller and Árpád Angyal. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for F.C.Barça. The following players had been chosen: Modenesi - Venuti, Lulli, Pupi, Lugaresi - D'Arco, Aresti, Bonaminio, Amurri - Cuccioletta, Bigaglia.

toobik tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. The following players took the field: Marcatti - Motyčka, Ulla - Iacuzzo, 中村 (Nakamura), De Bruyne, Ricci, Libri - Alcântara, 希邦 (Xibang), Manfio.

toobik seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. F.C.Barça made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left L. Bonaminio completely alone with keeper D. Marcatti, who made a spectacular block. The home side put themselves ahead 1 - 0 after 21 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from A. Cuccioletta, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave F. Iacuzzo from toobik a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 24 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! With 29 minutes played, F.C.Barça put themselves up 2 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to N. Aresti, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. After 32 minutes, F.C.Barça's N. Aresti fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! Ater 33 minutes 秀. 中村 (Nakamura) seized on an opportunistic attack from the right, and scored for toobik making it 2 - 1. With 36 minutes played, F.C.Barça's P. D'Arco almost extended the lead, but his shot from the left glanced off the top of the bar to fall behind the net. The teams went for the halftime break at 2 - 1. Possession of the ball saw an equal split between the teams during the forty-five minutes.

After 46 minutes, toobik switched L. Manfio with M. Vrugt, hoping for a quick impact on the pitch. With things not going too well on the field, the toobik coach made the decision to swap the positions of F. Iacuzzo and M. Libri with 46 minutes played. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, toobik's G. De Bruyne was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 46 minutes. A. Malherbe was given a chance to change things around. The crowd was silenced 47 minutes into the match as the visiting team's M. Vrugt came in from the left, levelling the score to 2 - 2. After 50 minutes, F. Bigaglia came in from the right, feinted, then sped past the off-balance defender to make the score 3 - 2, giving F.C.Barça the lead. It was obvious that team toobik had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings. 57 minutes into the game toobik's T. Alcântara found a gap in the home side's central defence and scored with a fabulous shot, making it 3 - 3. toobik had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 68 minutes in when T. Alcântara came up alone against N. Modenesi who managed a block. With 82 minutes played, the home side managed to get a 4 - 3 lead as S. Lulli flipped the ball in after a cross from the right. toobik had most of the ball, with 53 percent of possession.

R. Venuti performed admirably for F.C.Barça. On the other hand, N. Modenesi's play was disheartening. toobik's top performer was clearly M. Motyčka. R. Ulla on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 3.