SPS-07 1 - 3 kebu (385503934)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 39550 had shown up at Siivikkala Arena for the match. Silvio Rohweder was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Alexei Satin and Henrique Paris. SPS-07 decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. They fielded: Magalhães Costa - Marchelli, Simontaival, Chatzipetros - Ahia, Paulus, Marzo, Bezzi, Roelas - Manuel de León, Costales.

kebu started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Apró - Stockinger, Omazzi, Auré - Boeswald-Reinhardt, Hadrian, Milia, Hogenkamp, Çaman - D'Antoni, Minkkinen.

E. Çaman had a good opportunity to give kebu 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. R. Marchelli neatly controlled the ball after a short corner, and knocked it on to G. Manuel de León who had the whole net open before him, but only managed to hit the post. Some good play on the left wing created an opportunity for the visitors 31 minutes into the match, and T. Auré 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. H. Stockinger of kebu took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 33 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 2. 37 minutes into the match, L. D'Antoni came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. 0 - 2 was the score after the first half. Possession in this half belonged to kebu, who controlled the ball 57 percent of the time.

With 46 minutes played, the SPS-07 coach decided a substitution may help turn the game around. N. Ferdosi came on, J. Ahia had to leave the fray. Some fine movement on the left led to a kebu goal after 54 minutes, making it 0 - 3. E. Çaman was noted down as the scorer. After this, you could see that the players of kebu were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. A marvellous SPS-07 effort on the right-hand side resulted in a goal after 68 minutes by R. Marchelli, making the score 1 - 3. Content with how the game was proceeding, the kebu coach let A. Quadra-Salcedo replace T. Minkkinen after 69 minutes. B. Berter was called on to replace kebu's E. Çaman after 69 minutes following a nasty collision. With 76 minutes played, B. Berter nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. B. Berter came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle. He tried to lift the ball over V. Magalhães Costa but overcooked it and hit the bar instead. kebu claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 56 percent.

SPS-07's best player was A. Costales. On the other hand, V. Magalhães Costa's play was disheartening. The most dominating kebu player was without a doubt L. D'Antoni. B. Berter was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 3.