66343 spectators arrived at
The Cooking Pot, where weather conditions were pretty good for football.
David Lelel was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Arthur Glargaard and
Stanislav Postranskiy.
Grilled's starters:
Marcol -
Himadas,
其材 (Qicai) -
Reddy,
Pyae Ko,
Kwang Tse,
Keng Chuan,
Teck Fu -
Thach,
Khairul,
An Keng.
The following players had been chosen by
Queenstown:
Santirocchi -
Rotenberg,
Fernández del Cerro -
Jie,
Jing Wee,
Aron,
Razin Abdul Rafi,
Ho Jie -
M'Madi,
Boğ,
Khade.
The teams both lined up their players in 2-5-3 formations.
Queenstown used their
divine (+11) ability to concentrate their attacks in the middle of the pitch, rather than on the wings.
Queenstown were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. A mistake by the home side's central defence after 5 minutes allowed
Adem Boğ to score for
Queenstown. The scoreboard now read 0 - 1.
Grilled were close to equalising with a spectacular free kick by
Raúl Himadas after 9 minutes, but
Romano Santirocchi made a great save, tipping it to a corner.
Queenstown's
Gavin Rotenberg got himself booked for a foul. With a shot curled in from just outside the middle of the penalty area after 15 minutes played,
Lim An Keng of
Grilled made the score 1 - 1. With 22 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending.
Amal Razin Abdul Rafi put the ball away for 1 - 2. With 33 minutes played,
Grilled's
Lim An Keng found an opening in the visitors' left side defence, but his shot was handled easily by the keeper. A foul 34 minutes into the game resulted in a free kick for
Grilled.
Raúl Himadas took advantage as he curled the equalising goal into the top corner, just out of the reach of the keeper. 2 - 2. The teams went for the halftime break at 2 - 2.
Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 59 percent.
46 minutes into the game,
Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game.
Hein Thiha Pyae Ko gave
元気 (Genki) 長野 (Nagano) a quick hug as he left the field. They were singing the praises of
Chad Thach 56 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 3 - 2 to
Grilled.
Combo M'Madi of
Queenstown received a yellow card after 60 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. The crowd was silenced 66 minutes into the match as the visiting team's
Gavin Rotenberg came in from the left, levelling the score to 3 - 3. The visitors could have taken the lead from a free kick after 68 minutes, if it wasn't for the jaw-dropping save by
Radomil Marcol. 78 minutes were showing on the scoreboard when
Queenstown's
Combo M'Madi received his second yellow card and was sent off. With
Combo M'Madi no longer on the pitch,
Satya Khade became the new set pieces taker. The home side put themselves ahead 4 - 3 after 81 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from
Hwang Teck Fu, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. The referee showed
Queenstown's
Satya Khade the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.
Grilled's
Brian 'Was Born' Reddy increased the lead to 5 - 3, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 85 minutes. As the 89 minute mark approached, the
Grilled coach decided it was time for a substitution.
Raúl Himadas reluctantly made way for
Damian Hutter on the pitch. With
Raúl Himadas no longer on the pitch,
元気 (Genki) 長野 (Nagano) took over free kick duty.
Hwang Teck Fu would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise.
Kendell El Khateeb entered the game for
Grilled as the match clock showed 89 minutes. It was announced by the referee that he estimated stoppage time to be around 4 minutes. This meant there could still be an extra attack or two left in the match! The match ends 5 - 3.
Grilled had most of the ball, with 59 percent of possession.
Grilled's best player was
Chad Thach. Most important
Queenstown player was
Amal Razin Abdul Rafi.