Carnova 5 - 2 TeamForceHippy (378059757)

Clouds darkened the skies at Pancione Magic Arena as 2317 spectators turned up for the match. Jan-Ulfert Widholz was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Chema Príncipe and Lars Tappy. Carnova started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Dalio - Desgro, Montgomery, Borromeo - Kaziród, Mischi, Richardsen, Mignone - Aristotele, Bertinelli, Alessandro.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for TeamForceHippy. Lineup: Heideman - Deniz, Nusser, Rosado - Glass, van Dijke, Fledderus, Babin, Måner - Guggenberger, van Barneveld.

After 9 minutes, M. Richardsen sent the corner kick right to C. Montgomery who headed it sharply past the keeper. 1 - 0! Carnova's X. Mignone increased the lead to 2 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 17 minutes. After 30 minutes, TeamForceHippy raised their score by one when D. Glass's dangerous low cross was cleverly tucked in at the near post by T. Måner. 2 - 1. The visitors' P. van Barneveld was alert after a cross coming in from the left, levelling the score at 2 - 2 after 37 minutes. L. Mischi received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly 39 minutes into the match, probably out of lack of experience, and almost let an opponent score. With 42 minutes played S. Borromeo almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. 43 minutes into the match and the home team took a 3 - 2 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for Carnova was E. Bertinelli. The teams went for the halftime break at 3 - 2. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Carnova, with 55 percent of the ball.

After 56 minutes M. Alessandro made a speedy advance and dropped the ball to E. Bertinelli who shuffled it past the keeper. The score was now 4 - 2. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, P. van Barneveld got himself booked. The manager of TeamForceHippy was not happy. Carnova's C. Montgomery saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 67 minutes. After 70 minutes, F. Aristotele put Carnova ahead 5 - 2 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. After this, you could see that the players of Carnova were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Possession in this half belonged to Carnova, who controlled the ball 52 percent of the time.

Carnova's best player was M. Alessandro. X. Mignone was a disappointment, however. TeamForceHippy's top performer was clearly T. Måner. D. van Dijke turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 5 - 2.