Tricolor 2 - 0 bra-arg (375940818)

It had rained all day, but 44694 hardy fans still made it out to Tricolor Avaré Arena. Anders 'Tornis' Tornstedt was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Torstein Weihe and Giovanni Morandi Corradini. Tricolor decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players took the field: Godinho - Bölter, Aceña, Miller - Messuti, Bečák, Pfeilitzer, Cristina, Bælum - Cimadevilla, Cosma.

bra-arg had chosen a strategic 4-5-1 formation. The following players had been chosen: Niemenmaa - Uitz, Åhbrant, Brandby, Colidius - Emami, Moraes, Chibsah, de Carvalho, Haj-Najjar - Lehtovirta.

The wings were the focus of most of bra-arg's attacks today. A. de Carvalho had a good opportunity to give bra-arg the lead as he charged down the right and struck the ball towards the top corner, but the home team's goalkeeper made the save. After 23 minutes Tricolor tried to exploit their counterattacking skills, unfortunately, A. Cimadevilla's shot sailed wide after his break down the right. The referee showed Tricolor's L. Cosma the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. With 31 minutes played L. Bölter almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. I. Pfeilitzer caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 37 minutes. This gave Tricolor the 1 - 0 lead. Cheers filled the stadium as F. Aceña broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 2 - 0 to Tricolor. After this, you could see that the players of Tricolor were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. V. Messuti should probably have put his team up another goal after 40 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by T. Niemenmaa kept the visitors in the game. bra-arg were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. Halftime score was 2 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Tricolor, with 60 percent of the ball.

bra-arg had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. V. Messuti neatly controlled the ball after a short corner, and knocked it on to J. Bælum who had the whole net open before him, but only managed to hit the post. The boggy pitch disrupted the game, especially for technical players like J. Bælum. 86 minutes in, Tricolor's A. Cimadevilla received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Tricolor's A. Cristina was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 89 minutes. Possession in this half belonged to Tricolor, who controlled the ball 61 percent of the time.

The most dominating Tricolor player was without a doubt I. Pfeilitzer. On the other hand, J. Bælum's play was disheartening. Most important bra-arg player was B. Emami. A. de Carvalho was a disappointment, however. The match ends 2 - 0.