Clear skies welcomed the spectators who had made their way to the stadium today. The following players took the field: Law - Keng Chuan, 其材 (Qicai) - Reddy, Thach, Kwang Tse, Khairul, Parada - Chitre, Ze Han, An Keng.

The following players had been selected: Soper - Silva, Hamid, Ekanayake, De Abrew, Ekanayake - Murthy, Penn, Gunasekera - Last, Wrona.

The teams had chosen different formations for the match. The home team, Grilled Birds, went for a 2-5-3, while Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte SC has decided to play a 5-3-2 lineup. Grilled went for a narrow approach, using their divine (+8) (28) ability to focus their attacks down the middle. For their match strategy, Jayawardenepura had decided to use their magical (18) ability to counter-attack whenever possible. It was obvious that Grilled had instructions to attack in the middle when they directed a break on the wing into the center of the park. After a fine move down the middle Brian 'Was Born' Reddy nearly put the home side one up with 29 minutes played. His final touch escaped him though and the keeper smothered the ball. Alfonso Penn showed why he is feared on the counter-attack, breaking through in the middle and scoring for Jayawardenepura after 30 minutes to make the score 0 - 1. Proving that a foot massage and a pre-game pedicure can work wonders, Federico Parada sent a rocket into the box from the corner, finding Chia Kwang Tse, who headed it past the keeper with extreme prejudice. 33 minutes in and it's 1 - 1! Some great play up the middle by Grilled led to a chance for Aw Keng Chuan to get the go-ahead goal with 36 minutes played, but the shot hit the crossbar. Jayawardenepura's Vinay Murthy gave the visitors a 1 - 2 lead after 42 minutes with a superb strike from the right. Grilled put pressure on the visitors' central defense with 43 minutes played, but Lim An Keng couldn't find an opening. It was 1 - 2 at the break. Now to our celebrity commentator for a hot take. Over to you, Snoop! 46 minutes into the match, the referee signaled for a Grilled substitution. Hwang Teck Fu came on for Mohd Marzuki Khairul. Grilled had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle instead. After 62 minutes of play, Lim An Keng evened things up for Grilled with an impressive goal coming up the middle. 2 - 2. With the clock showing 75 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board. Chan Ze Han looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for Joe Reece, though he would have liked to continue. Not surprisingly, Grilled's bench was visibly upset when, with 77 minutes played, Brian 'Was Born' Reddy almost fumbled the ball into his own net! After 81 minutes cheers broke out as Joe Reece found his way through the guests' central defensive line, rattling the 3 - 2 goal in off the woodwork for Grilled. Jayawardenepura showed their counter-attacking skill 84 minutes into the match by breaking through the middle, with Olaf Last scoring an easy goal for 3 - 3. After 85 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Chad Thach off. Teo Chuan Yong took his place. With 86 minutes gone, Jayawardenepura's organization began to suffer due to a lack of experience. 88 minutes had elapsed when a great chance for Grilled to take the lead after a good ball from the right found Chia Kwang Tse alone with the keeper, but he chipped it to the wrong side of the post. Big paper red cards were being held up by the opposing supporters with 89 minutes on the clock after Tharindu Ekanayake's mistimed tackle from behind. The referee only showed the Jayawardenepura player a yellow card though. The fourth official announced that there would be 2 minutes of stoppage time, giving fans a slim hope that their team could get one more attack in before this was all over. The match ends 3 - 3. Let's go to the Twittersphere to see what the fans think of the game so far! says Gandhik Chitre performed admirably for Grilled. You can tell it was nickel beer night yesterday at the local bar because Cameron Law seemed to stumble all over the pitch. Jayawardenepura's best player was Marek Wrona. Good thing Tharindu Ekanayake isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance.