zhaiiteam 0 - 7 Grilled
e crowd of 7000 turning up at zhaiiteam Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain.
Ger de Keiser was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Ari Nuutinmäki and
Alessandro Griffa. The derby had been the talk of all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. zhaiiteam tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players took the field: Kum Huat - bin Mohd Yassin, Wei Kang, bin Shariff, bin Mohd Derus - Chao Tak, bin Abd Wahid, bin Saad, Tung - Hon Yui, bin Abdullah.
Grilled started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Abed-Sulaiman - Zywczyn, Fredgård, Bona - van Liere, Han Kok, Kek-Tjiang, Paullin, Spirig - Simon, Martinsson.
A mistake by the home side's central defence after 24 minutes allowed
Ola Martinsson to score the 0 - 1 goal for Grilled. A drive on the left side allowed Grilled's
Sylweriusz Zywczyn to get in close and score a goal after 32 minutes, leading to 0 - 2. After 35 minutes, Grilled's
Dimitri Simon burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 3.
Dong Hon Yui slipped and slithered in the wet grass. His usual rapid runs were nowhere to be seen today. After 40 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed
Ola Martinsson to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 4. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 4. This half belonged to Grilled, who controlled the ball 90 percent of the time.
Some fine manoeuvring on the left led to a Grilled goal after 63 minutes, making it 0 - 5.
Lorenz Paullin was noted down as the scorer. Confident in their lead, Grilled decided to play a more defensive game at this point. With 71 minutes played, Grilled put themselves up 0 - 6 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was
Dimitri Simon.
Sylweriusz Zywczyn was, after 72 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the centre, but home side's keeper
Lim Kum Huat made the save. Some fine manoeuvring on the left led to a Grilled goal after 80 minutes, making it 0 - 7.
Shen Kek-Tjiang was noted down as the scorer. 81 minutes in, zhaiiteam's
Khairul Azuar bin Saad received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The home crowd cheered when, after 82 minutes,
Lorenz Paullin's charge up the middle resulted in the keeper making one of his best saves of the day. Grilled held the ball, with a clear 96 percent of possession.
zhaiiteam's top performer was clearly
Mohd Zulfakri bin Abdullah. On the other hand,
Dong Hon Yui's play was disheartening. The most dominating Grilled player was without a doubt
Lorenz Paullin. However,
Fabian Bona made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 7.