Isotopes 4 - 1 Athletic (374449225)

34390 spectators had come to London Isotopes Arena this cloudy day. Jorge Alberto Piccione was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Petter Norborn and Søren Lippert. Isotopes started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Warrick - Cafranga, Cereto, Gosset - Çalkın, MacAirt, Gillis, Cartwright, Pääkkölä - Herrera, Bent.

Athletic tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Taylor - Keller, Campbell, Čurha - Knierim, Brucciani, Tocher, Wall, Grevenbrück - Rutherford, Houghton.

The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to Q. Cereto, but the Isotopes player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! Cheers filled the stadium as J. Herrera broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 2 - 0 to Isotopes. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Isotopes scored another to make it 3 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for J. Herrera after 27 minutes. Confident in their lead, Isotopes's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. 3 - 0 was the halftime score. Isotopes had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

After 57 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and G. MacAirt gave the Isotopes supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 4 - 0. Athletic reduced the lead after 64 minutes to 4 - 1 as K. Rutherford easily chipped the ball past the home side's keeper after a dazzling play from the right. The referee showed Athletic's C. Knierim the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. H. Bent wanted to play on, but the Isotopes coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 74 minutes into the game by O. Lineker. After 76 minutes Isotopes tried to exploit their counterattacking skills, unfortunately, A. Cartwright's shot sailed wide after his break down the right. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Isotopes, with 53 percent of the ball.

Most important Isotopes player was O. Lineker. Q. Cereto on the other hand, had a terrible day. Athletic's best player was K. Rutherford. However, R. Grevenbrück made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 4 - 1.