Group E kicked off with Germany versus England as SV Zoo took on Missing Magpies.

SV Zoo were playing their second eurofootballfives.com tournament of the year after playing on home soil in the Berlin Fives back in June. This was their fifth eurofootballfives tournament and third foreign adventure having previously competed in the 2012 Krakow Trophy and 2013 Plate Champion of Champions in Budapest. In Krakow they were successful on debut winning the Plate competition. In May 2013 they finished 4th in the Plate Champion of Champions tournament in Budapest. In Berlin last year they finished 3rd in their 5-team group progressing to the Plate again. They secured a resounding 5-0 win in the Quarter-Finals before eventual Plate winners, Team Geek, arrested their progress at the Semi-Final stage. In Berlin 2014 they also finished 3rd in their 5-team group before a Plate Quarter-Final exit on penalties.

The Missing Magpies featured two members of the Saipan FC team that defeated SV Zoo 4-0 in Budapest 2013. Barry Lysaght and Tom Bird were enjoying equal success against the German team today as they enjoyed a 5-1 success here for the Missing Magpies.

Goals from Tom Bird, Luke Bird (2) and Pete Bell (2) settled matters with a Sebastian Seifert goal providing scant consolation for SV Zoo.

Los Swallacticos was in action next against Monexy.

Los Swallacticos came into the game as defending champions. They made their eurofootballfives.com debut at the 2013 Barcelona Fives and what a debut it was! They went all the way to victory and if they win again in 2014 will become only the second team ever in eurofootballfives.com history to retain a title! The first (and only) team was Athletico Do Hollande who won the 2010 and 2011 Algarve Open titles.

They began against Monexy – the first team to represent Ukraine in eurofootballfives.com competition. They sent quite a message to the other 24 teams in the tournament as they turned over the defending champions, 2-0. Andrii Vitoshynski and Mykhalo Kot scored the goals that sent rumours around the tournament that last year's winners had lost.

Monexy had announced themselves as a team to watch in this tournament.

ACE & The Swagmen were the final team to get their campaign started when they took on SV Zoo.

ACE & The Swagmen returned to the eurofootballfives fold after playing at the 2012 Budapest Fives and 2013 Lisbon Tournament. In Budapest, they got off to a flyer scoring in just a matter of seconds in their opening fixture against Csabagyongye before slipping to 3-1 defeat. They ended up winless in the group phase that featured Csabagyongye and Liverpool Central (as Mersey White Sox) who are also here in Barcelona this weekend. A similar fate befell them in Lisbon so they will be looking for some improved results in 2014. Amongst their ranks will be Joe Humphreys who played here 12 months ago for Sporting Gingham and reached the Cup Semi-Finals.

SV Zoo had lost their opening game but that should come as no surprise – they had lost their opening game in every one of their eurofootballfives.com knock-out tournaments before. They were traditionally slow-starters and this often continued into their second games losing 2-0 to Valeo of Poland (Krakow 2012), drawing 2-2 with DHL Prague White of the Czech Republic (Berlin 2013) and losing 3-1 to Frank Hirth B of England (Berlin 2014).

Today though, they would get their first victory in a eurofootballfives.com knockout tournament in the opening two fixtures of the group. They defeated ACE & The Swagmen 5-1 due to a Sebastien Seifert hat-trick and goals from Jan Neubert and Christoph Von Lope.

ACE & The Swagmen did open their scoring account thanks to a goal from Tom Taylor.

Game 4 saw Missing Magpies meet Los Swallacticos. Missing Magpies first stop on the eurofootballfives.com tour had been the Amsterdam Fives in 2012 where they made an impressive debut. They finished 2nd in their 6-team group and were only beaten to the title by (now) 3-times eurofootballfives.com winners, Athletico Do Hollande. They went on to the Cup Semi-Finals and missed out on a debut final after defeat to El A Dees. The 2014 Barcelona Fives is their second eurofootballfives.com appearance.

They had started their Barcelona campaign in convincing fashion with a 5-1 victory. They now faced the defending champions who had lost their opening game. This tournament format is pretty unforgiving and if Los Swallacticos wanted to retain their title they could afford no more slip-ups in the group phase in order to qualify for the Cup.

In an entertaining and closely matched first half it was Los Swallacticos who emerged in front by the narrowest margins, 2-1. A repeat of that scoreline after the break meant Los Swallacticos had their first victory of the day, 4-2. It was a great game personally for Ruairi O'Neill in particular who scored his first goals in eurofooballfives.com competition as he claimed a hat-trick. Los Swallacticos were up and running.

The game that would take us to the mid-way point in Group E was Monexy versus ACE & The Swagmen. Monexy had the chance to open up a 3 point lead at the top of the group and they had been impressive in their first game. It would be an ominous task for ACE & The Swagmen to bounce back from first game defeat to SV Zoo.

ACE & The Swagmen were looking for their first eurofootballfives victory and it didn't look like coming in this game. They were up against a very good side and Monexy were taking to European football like a duck to water. What followed was a sensational victory for the men in yellow and it ended up being the second biggest win of the day.

Captain Artem Illichov got the ball rolling with the first of his two goals in the game. There were also doubles for Mykhalo Kot, Andrii Vitoshynski and Yurii Tsymbal, a goal for Volodymyr Fenenko and an unclassified goal. The final score was 10-1 to Monexy.

For ACE & The Swagmen there was a goal for James Larcombe which meant, as a team, ACE & The Swagmen were scoring if they could only plug the holes at the other end.