Cremisi Of The Crop
This edition of the Supporter Week Trophy had the Birds wind up 3410th out of 27124 teams on a 6-1-3 record and +14 goal difference, after two wins and a loss on the third and final day. First up was a 4-3 win over former Polish Ekstraklasa champions F.C. Thunder, who are now navigating a return from III.11.
Phillip Nagata would be the star here with two goals in three minutes midway through the first half, with Thunder teasing a comeback after goals by Fryderyk Anduła and Ilya Vasilchuk about the 76th minute.
There would be another remarkable victory against Peruvian Primera División club Los Olímpicos de Huancayo F.C., as
Hwang Teck Fu and
Genki Nagano struck braces in a 5-2.
Ananda Hettiarachchi supplemented those with a neat 56th minute dribble that was effective if basic, but the goal of the match had to be former Indian youth international striker Miraj Rao's thirty-yard rocket in added time.
This earned Grilled Birds a farewell against Italian Serie A side I CREMISI, in which they got on the wrong end of a 2-6 scoreline. The Birds did managed to edge possession, but were no match for I CREMISI's free-flowing attack whenever it clicked. The Swedish pair of Tomas Igelfeldt and Jonas Kullenbo bagged two each, after
Hein Thiha Pyae Ko briefly raised Grilled's hopes by smartly levelling two minutes after half-time.
The Buns ended 14255th on a neutral 4-2-4 and zero goal difference after a lacklustre last day, which kicked off with a nil-all draw against French VI.925 club Blue Screen 0f Death. BSD had entered this game on a eleven-game competitive winning run, but they would not have enough firepower to bother Bunnies' 5-5-0. The biggest opportunity came in the 74th minute on
Ong Li Jing's breakthrough, but he couldn't keep his shot on target.
Single-goal defeats against Dutch IV.25 side Willie Wonka and Albanian II.1 team FC Prishtina City followed, the first of which had Wonka continually testing
Gilberto Sorondo, both before and after Pedro van Turenhout's first-time finish in the 57th. Former Albanian U-20 star Xhuliano Dollani then got Prishtina's winner from their 24th minute corner, with
Koushan Khatibi not that far away from his curling free-kick 58 minutes in.
Grilled International did slightly better with their 11176th finish, on a 5-0-5 and a single positive goal difference. A close-run 3-4 defeat to Syrian II.4 entrants Al Apariolikah was first, and this despite them having Finnish fullback Otto Passi sent off late in the first half, and
Khosrov Danelyan putting away a penalty after just three minutes. Danelyan had a great opportunity to tie it up late in injury time, but his surging drive was blocked by Tomi Kaihlanen's desperate slide.
There would then be a 3-1 win over Austrian IV.34 outfit 1.Simmeringer Sportclub, who went ahead through Vinko Blažević's tenth minute effort, after a brutal shoulder-to-shoulder charge against
Stef Vreys.
Chua Jun Long equalized in the 30th minute after beating the offside trap, with Danelyan's 60th minute penalty and
Redhuan bin Mohd Aleshahfezan's poach nine minutes later putting the Austrians away.
Bosnia and Herzegovina IV.7 side Herzegovina United would be International's final test, one that they failed 1-3. It would be Danelyan from the spot again in the 33rd minute after a fortunate call on
Minür Nurettin Tütsü, but the hosts' counters would be too much for International in the end. Romanian striker Ionuţ Căvescu swept home their third in the 62nd minute, but International looked done long before then.
