sk 0 - 6 Blankovo (383785063)

23247 spectators arrived at Pod Sanovym vrskom, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Jarne Herremans was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Wiebe Crijns and Efisio Trabace. sk started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Desprès - Donnarumma, Agha Sheikh, Sanaslahti - Türksoyu, Ovčík, Kotlaba, Tomanka, Koupil - Mahsun, Valten.

Blankovo tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Starters: Oskarsson - Stranimeier-Seifert, Lesaca - Lucardi, Mišičák, Bakeš, Rudakov, Grimaldo - Bujanský, Nascimento, Litscher.

Some good play on the left wing created an opportunity for the visitors 5 minutes into the match, and R. Stranimeier-Seifert wasn't about to let it go by. He got past the defenders and fired a shot that the keeper just missed. 0 - 1 for the visitors. sk's M. Mahsun had seen it all before, so he waited patiently for the right opportunity. He would get no better chance than the one he took, but his shot was deftly blocked by the keeper. The home crowd cheered when, after 19 minutes, S. Rudakov's charge up the middle resulted in the keeper making one of his best saves of the day. Blankovo's P. Lucardi was shown a yellow card after 30 minutes for slicing down an opponent. With 32 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed B. Bujanský of Blankovo to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 2. Blankovo's B. Bujanský made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 37 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line. 0 - 2 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Blankovo, with 67 percent of the ball.

After 61 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for B. Bujanský who increased Blankovo's lead to 0 - 3. Confident in their lead, Blankovo's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. A drive down the left side allowed F. Nascimento to get in close and score another goal for Blankovo after 66 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 4. Against a lesser team, Blankovo could very well have succeeded with their smart indirect free kick routine after 72 minutes. A trio of passes took the ball all the way past the defenders, but by then the intended recipient was already blocked off and the keeper could make a leisurely save. After 78 minutes, Blankovo's M. Grimaldo burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 5. 84 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 6 as F. Nascimento finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. K. Kotlaba of sk received a yellow card after 86 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Blankovo claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 68 percent.

sk's best player was K. Kotlaba. However, F. Desprès made a disastrous appearance. S. Rudakov performed admirably for Blankovo. B. Bujanský was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 6.