samurais 0 - 5 Ovejitas (380087479)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 15010 to Los Millonarios. Manuel Atance was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Grimbert Rosenkranz and Murat 'Elefant' Heuser. samurais tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Nagy - Robinsson, Gameiro, Ludueña - Villaggio, Bellentani, Herodes, Massardi, González - Chiarito, Temesvári.

Ovejitas had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Saternus - Dupont, Thiebaud, Casasbuenas - Uclés, Mihăilescu, Béiztegui, Teague, Conesa - Gosselink, Vanduyfhuys.

Today, samurais's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. Ovejitas took the lead 20 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. M. Gosselink was the scorer. 21 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 2 as J. Dupont finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. The home crowd cheered when, after 29 minutes, H. Uclés's charge up the middle resulted in the keeper making one of his best saves of the day. J. Dupont was the first to reach the corner kick, but his header was blocked by the keeper. However, Ovejitas's A. Conesa managed to get hold of the rebound and tucked the ball into the empty net. 0 - 3 After this, you could see that the players of Ovejitas were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Ovejitas's H. Teague was shown a yellow card after 41 minutes for slicing down an opponent. 0 - 3 was the halftime score. Ovejitas had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

The home crowd was not impressed when H. Teague came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 47 minutes. Ovejitas were now up 0 - 4. An amazing free kick flew past the home keeper 48 minutes into the match, putting Ovejitas ahead 0 - 5. E. Casasbuenas was the scorer. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave U. Robinsson from samurais a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 60 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! The crowd groaned when B. Temesvári, having maneuvered his way down the right, fired the ball just wide and missed a great opportunity to reduce the deficit for samurais. S. Bellentani did everything he could to get one back for his samurais, but keeper P. Saternus denied him with a spectacular block. Had it not been for one of the home defenders, H. Uclés would have put Ovejitas up another goal 78 minutes into the match with his audacious lob from the right wing. Ovejitas's A. Conesa left the field after 85 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was J. Rubiano. Ovejitas enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 54 percent of possession.

S. Chiarito performed admirably for samurais. On the other hand, V. Nagy's play was disheartening. Ovejitas's best player was H. Uclés. J. Rubiano on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 5.