FRIENDLY - Dunfermline - DCF Guarana 6-1

SAN DESIDERIO - Dunfermline had it the easy way last night, as they thumped 2007/08 Zonale champions Guaranà in a very one-sided contest.
Vanin deployed Semino in goal, with Crosetti and Filippi starting in defence.
Marletta was in the middle of the park, initially flanked by Bovalino and Rossi, although it wasn't long before the changes were rung and Finotti was inserted in the midfield rotation.
Cantelli, as rumoured all week, was fielded upfront as the lone striker, a position he can cover in a very effective way, as he showed last night, and on other occasions as well, for that matter.
Guaranà weren't quite interested in the meaning of the word "friendly", so they started making high-flying tackles almost from the word go, with Bovalino, Cantelli, Rossi and Marletta the main targets.
The early exchanges weren't too enjoyable to watch, but Dunfermline have been playing fairly good football, recently, so when they did start clicking, there was no way back.
Marletta opened the scoring latching onto a loose ball to sidefoot home from just outside the box.
Before the break, Cantelli added two of his own, the former a poacher's goal taking advantage of a keeper's blunder, the latter with an exquisite lob shot.

HALF TIME: Dunfermline 3, Guarana 0

Proceedings were resumed, and Dunfermline just kept on going.
Cantelli completed his hat-trick with a lovely long-range left-footed effort, before Rossi started a show of his own when deployed upfront.
Basically, he ran Guarana defence ragged and provided his team-mates with a number of excellent final passes and clearcut chances.
Not all of those amounted to goals, but Bovalino and Finotti did pile up further misery upon the dismantled opponents, who only managed to pull one back before the end of the game.
A good warm-up performance, ahead of the beginning of the competitive season, due to kick-start in quite some style on Sunday, in the Liguria Cup first round tie against Division C outfit Rivar Plate.

FULL TIME: Dunfermline 6, Guarana 1


DUNFERMLINE

Semino (1)
Crosetti (2)
Filippi (8)
Bovalino (11) replaced by Finotti (15)
Marletta (5)
Rossi (7)
Cantelli (6)

MANAGER: Vanin
SCORERS: Marletta, Cantelli 3, Bovalino, Finotti