Grilled 3 - 0 CFC
ather conditions were fairly good for football, and The Cooking Pot saw a crowd turnout of 55887.
Przemysław Ekert was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Peter Hubl and
Jesus Philippi. The derby had been the talk of all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. Grilled tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Abed-Sulaiman - Zywczyn, Fredgård, Bona - van Liere, Han Kok, Kek-Tjiang, Paullin, Spirig - Simon, Martinsson.
CFC started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Panasevich - Lucchese, Birgersson, Chih-Chien, Mulrain - bin Sabtu, bin Hasan, Chih-Cheng, Boroffka - Månsson, Himes.
The strategy for CFC on this day was to use their ability to press. CFC pressed their opponents, causing the game to be a bit of a stalemate at times. At 6 minutes played,
Sylweriusz Zywczyn came in from the right with the intention of giving Grilled the lead, but his rocket of a shot rattled the crossbar. Many in the crowd felt the referee was being too lenient when he only showed Grilled's
Dani Spirig a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 15 minutes into the game. 33 minutes into the match and the home team took a 1 - 0 lead after breaking through on the left. Scorer for Grilled was
Ola Martinsson. 1 - 0 was the score after the first half. Grilled held the ball, with a clear 51 percent of possession.
Coming through the middle
Claes Månsson almost scored the equaliser for CFC after 55 minutes, but
Ahmed Abed-Sulaiman made an excellent save, tipping the awkwardly curled shot past the post. Grilled's
Dimitri Simon showed his experience, anticipating the outcome of the opponent's defensive clearance and positioning himself perfectly to volley in an unstoppable shot from the edge of the box. 2 - 0. A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Grilled's
Dimitri Simon putting the lead up to 3 - 0. The structure of the game started to change as Grilled decided to pull back and meet their opponents in their own half. CFC claimed to be the more dominant force in the game, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 51 percent.
Grilled's top performer was clearly
Ahmed Abed-Sulaiman.
Fabian Bona on the other hand, had a terrible day.
Lang Chih-Cheng performed admirably for CFC.
Claes Månsson on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 0.