Rangers 0 - 5 Grilled
e crowd of 7000 turning up at Changi Bowl today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain.
Tirso Melón was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Nick Karlsson and
Anders Godquist. Rangers had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. Lineup: Yi-Ren - Kam-Kee, Guo-Hui, Koon, Jen-hua - Yao-Hua, Poo-Soi, Anh-Minh, Ka-Kit - Tan-Tai, Qing-Song.
Grilled had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Bao-Tam - Alcántara, Tuan-Mu, Pakpao - Dai-Lin, Ju-Hau, Stanton, Siu-Yue, Kolesov - Hjortlind, Kearney.
Grilled's
Ulf Hjortlind finished emphatically to make the score 0-1 after 27 minutes, after the enigmatic
Asher Stanton pulled a delightful long pass from his box of tricks to bypass the defence.
Wilson Kearney came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle, but he lifted the ball over
Lin Yi-Ren and it was a little too high and hit the bar. The visitors'
Ulf Hjortlind took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and central backs 30 minutes into the match. 0 - 2 for Grilled. The game had been on for 33 minutes when
Ulf Hjortlind broke through on the right, upping the score for Grilled to 0 - 3, much to the home crowd's dismay. At that,
Ulf Hjortlind was noted down for a hat trick. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. Grilled claimed to be the more dominant force in the game, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 83 percent.
63 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 4 as
Ulf Hjortlind finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. With 67 minutes played, Grilled's
Milen Kolesov fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked
Milen Kolesov for diving. Almost all the way down to the corner flag, Grilled's
Ma Dai-Lin somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for
Ulf Hjortlind, who struck for 0 - 5. The structure of the game started to change as Grilled decided to pull back and meet their opponents in their own half.
Lin Yi-Ren kept the home side in the game with a magnificent save when
Ulf Hjortlind delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far post. Grilled held the ball, with a clear 93 percent of possession.
Rangers's best player was
Zhou Kam-Kee. However,
Chew Poo-Soi made a disastrous appearance. Most important Grilled player was
Wilson Kearney.
Luis Alcántara on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 5.