SAMBALEX 3 - 3 Florida (381682262)

The 16655 spectators at "Sambodromo" were in for an afternoon of sunshine. Joonas Heinloo was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Per Dirdal and Rikkert Claassen. SAMBALEX had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. The following players took the field: Galache - Tabolevičius, Amado - Calbijo, Braunsdorf, Rubelli, Johur, Barnard - Robmann, Falero, Udriot.

Florida decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. They fielded: Zampagna - Martínez Sánchez, Garitano, Tesauro - Zákravský, Tritos, Infantino, Saarman, Berner - Minerva, Gedővári.

SAMBALEX were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. With 6 minutes played A. Tabolevičius almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. SAMBALEX took the lead after 12 minutes as a result of J. Calbijo's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. T. Braunsdorf enjoyed the sunshine and demonstrated his stunning technique over and over again. SAMBALEX put in a good effort on the right, but P. Robmann saw his volley fly wide of the mark 26 minutes into the game. SAMBALEX were given a gift! The ref dubiously awarded them a penalty 34 minutes into the match, which was neatly put away by G. Amado. 2 - 0 for the home side. 2 - 0 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by SAMBALEX, with 62 percent of the ball.

Florida were desperate to get a goal back and pushed forward through the middle 48 minutes into the game. After a scramble in the box, the ball dropped to C. Infantino, who smashed it home to make the score 2 - 1. Cheers filled the stadium as G. Amado broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 3 - 1 to SAMBALEX. Coming from the right, O. Udriot almost managed to score another goal for SAMBALEX, but his header was tipped over the bar by the visitors' keeper. SAMBALEX had to make a substitution after 69 minutes. G. Amado limped off the field and was replaced by T. Basílio. T. Basílio was the new captain of SAMBALEX - handed the armband by the departing player. The visitors replied 70 minutes into the game, reducing the home side's lead to 3 - 2, as L. Gedővári dashed up the middle, easily lobbing the ball over the home team's keeper. After 71 minutes, the visitors tied it up at 3 - 3 when a fantastic pass from the left was finished off by L. Gedővári. Possession in this half belonged to SAMBALEX, who controlled the ball 60 percent of the time.

V. Falero performed admirably for SAMBALEX. A. Tabolevičius was a disappointment, however. Most important Florida player was C. Infantino. However, G. Zampagna made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 3 - 3.