Group B, on paper, looked like the Group of Death and so it would prove to be. Defending champions Rapid Bosco Navas of Spain would be joined in the line-up by 2009 Prague Masters winners Lozenetz City of Bulgaria. Tsunami FC and Hawks of England who were making their debuts would have a quite challenge.

In the opening game of Group B, Rapid Bosco Navas continued where they left off in 2008 as they quickly established a 2-0 lead through Pablo ‘Magic' Garin and Juan Martinez. From this early setback Tsunami FC bounced back and grew into the game. Whilst they competed better as the game went on the goals proved elusive resulting in an opening game win for Rapid Bosco Navas. The Spaniards were aiming to become the first team to successfully defend a title in eurofootballfives.com history and they had negotiated the first hurdle.

On Pitch D, one of the stories of the group phase was emerging as one of the pre-tournament favourites Lozenetz City were finding it tough against a tidy looking outfit in the form of Hawks. Lozenetz City were unbeaten in eurofootballfives.com competition so any team that could beat them must have shown a lot of quality. When Lozenetz City won the 2009 Prague Masters they did see with vociferous support and a free-scoring style of play. Maybe it was the early start (and last night's beers) that kept them subdued but we prefer to think that the Hawks performance did not allow them to get going and when Dan Cooke scored the only goal of the game to earn his side a 1-0 victory they left their Bulgarian opponents with an uphill task to qualify.

The next game was a clash of the titans encounter with two previous tournament winners coming head to head as Rapid Bosco Navas took on Lozenetz City. All the pressure was on the Bulgarians following their opening game defeat and they knew that they really had to win to stay in the competition. It was a hard fought game as we expected and we reached half-time with the teams tied together at 1-1 thanks to Xavi Llimona (Rapid Bosco Navas) and Alexander Kyulev ( Lozenetz City ). The draw would be a much better result for the Spanish but with a game versus Hawks to come they knew it may not be enough so both teams were hungry for a winner. We did see a third and final goal and it arrived from Hristo Kyosev to spark wild celebrations and that trademark Bulgarian airhorn! The 3 points put three teams tied together on 3 points and Tsunami FC cursing their luck to be drawn in this group.