Warriors 6 - 1 Grilled
The weather was pretty good at the stadium today for the match. They fielded:
Wieczorek -
Coupard,
Konka,
Abdelnacer -
Mashour,
Holmstedt,
Marcil,
Brière,
van de Beek -
Dean,
Crawley.
The following players had been selected:
Germanakos -
Kang Leong,
其材 (Qicai) -
Reddy,
Thach,
Keng Chuan,
Kwang Tse,
Teck Fu -
Khairul,
Chitre,
An Keng.
Ville Warriors started the game in a 3-5-2 formation, whereas Grilled Birds lined up in a 2-5-3. Grilled mostly ignored the flanks in favor of their divine (+8) (28) ability to attack in the middle. The 16 minute mark saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a breaking through on the left. The scorer for Warriors was
Julien Brière. Warriors solidified their lead at the 19 minute mark, as
Jani Holmstedt snaked the ball through the central line of defense and finished for 2 - 0. The visitors reduced the lead to 2 - 1 after 22 minutes as a free kick by
Hong Kang Leong snuck past the home side's goalkeeper. A penalty 29 minutes into the game gave the home side a chance at adding to the score, but an overconfident
Jani Holmstedt shot the ball wide trying to put it away in the top corner. It was 2 - 1 at the break. Looks like Nate Silver was right again - his prediction that Grilled would have 52 percent possession in this half was spot on!
54 minutes had passed when Warriors put themselves up 3 - 1 after the visiting defenders lost the ball to
Youssef Abdelnacer, who came up from the left and proceeded to easily go around the goalkeeper and knock the ball home. With the clock showing 63 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board.
Youssef Abdelnacer looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for
Yannic Baumhauer, though he would have liked to continue. Cheers filled the stadium as
Dickie Dean broke through the visitors' central defense to put away the 4 - 1 goal for Warriors. With 69 minutes played,
Lim An Keng had a fantastic opportunity to reply but his shot from the middle nicked the post and went out. Warriors added another goal to their lead as
Jani Holmstedt struck home for 5 - 1 after an attack from the left set him up unmarked in front of the keeper. Warriors's
Dickie Dean was shown a yellow card after 75 minutes for slicing down an opponent.
78 minutes into the game
Brian 'Was Born' Reddy could see that the opposing goalie was out of position and tried an unexpected chip that the keeper just barely reached. The rebound went to
Lim An Keng who failed to hit the target. After 80 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving
Hwang Teck Fu off.
Paulino Trindade took his place. Warriors's
Yannic Baumhauer was delighted to score as he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing keeper and into the net, following some good attacking movement on the right wing. 6 - 1 after 81 minutes. 89 minutes into the game, Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game.
Gandhik Chitre gave
Chan Ze Han a quick hug as he left the field. 89 minutes into the match, the referee signaled for a Grilled substitution.
Teo Chuan Yong came on for
Aw Keng Chuan. As the match nears its end, the referee deemed it appropriate to add 2 minutes as stoppage time. The match ends 6 - 1. Now to our celebrity commentator for a hot take. Over to you, Snoop! Warriors's top performer was clearly
Richie Crawley. Even six year old fans were wincing at the poor play by
Melhem Mashour today. The most outstanding Grilled player was without a doubt
Mohd Marzuki Khairul. I can't remember
Teo Chuan Yong ever having a worse night than he just had.