jiaxa 0 - 0 avtovo98 (387218839)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and J Arena saw a crowd turnout of 16268. Juha-Pekka Rousu was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Tobias Smith and Miguel Yern. jiaxa decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Cwaliński - Assis, Skworz, Zhantevski, Przedwojski - Camboim, van Wely, Sárhidai, Chubenko - Bâlă, Campos.

avtovo98 tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players took the field: Pellinen - Ivanov, Skritskiy, Kalakutskiy, Rodkin - Naumov, Bessonov, Akatov, Kozlov - Oparin, Lisboa.

After a fine move down the middle R. Bâlă nearly gave the home side a goal after 2 minutes. However the finishing shot went just wide. With 22 minutes showing on the scoreboard, jiaxa had a chance to take the lead after being awarded a penalty, but F. Campos's shot was blocked by Y. Pellinen. 27 minutes into the game, jiaxa seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to passable. 0 - 0 was the halftime score. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by jiaxa, with 66 percent of the ball.

A review of the gameplan helped jiaxa get back to a solid organisation when the referee blew his whistle again. R. Bâlă would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise. B. Dikarev entered the game for jiaxa as the match clock showed 46 minutes. 62 minutes into the game, jiaxa had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to inadequate. Making his way up the middle 65 minutes into the match, G. Assis almost managed to squeeze a goal past the visitors' keeper, but the alert Y. Pellinen blocked it to keep the score level. jiaxa's B. Sárhidai got himself booked for a foul. Unfortunately for avtovo98, E. Kalakutskiy was injured when the game became more physical, and he had to leave the field. A. Zubovich replaced him. jiaxa's G. Assis was shown a yellow card after 89 minutes for slicing down an opponent. jiaxa claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 63 percent.

jiaxa's best player was J. van Wely. B. Dikarev turned in a dismal performance, however. avtovo98's top performer was clearly M. Naumov. A. Zubovich on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 0.