ather conditions were fairly good for football, and North Stadium saw a crowd turnout of 7000. Anders Malmstål was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Naofumi Maita and Gerd Eidbacher. North started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Nhon - Ling-yu, Kyung-Bae, Li-Hwa, Gong-Liang - Dae-jung, Leng-Jin, Dinh-Nam, Krishnan - Abu Salim, Kar-Kee.

Grilled tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Harlow - Paullin, Pakpao, Dewilde - Noor Yadah, Ju-Hau, Siu-Yue, Rottman, Stanton - Hobson, Martinsson.

Grilled seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. Grilled took the lead 23 minutes into the game, scoring the 0 - 1 goal after some elegant plays down the middle. Ola Martinsson was the scorer. Proving his experience, Iskandar Zulkernain Abu Salim scored 1 - 1 for North after putting some pressure on the opposing defence at a critical moment. Ola Martinsson came close to putting the visiting team one up 26 minutes into the match, following a solo raid down the middle, but He Nhon managed to tip the ball to a corner. The referee showed Grilled's Nui Pakpao the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. North's Cheung Dae-jung left the field after 37 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was Kwan Jet-Li. Grilled took the lead 37 minutes into the game, scoring the 1 - 2 goal after some elegant plays down the middle. Ola Martinsson was the scorer. The referee signalled a penalty 40 minutes into the game following an offence just inside of the box. Ola Martinsson knocked home the 1 - 3 goal just outside the reach of the goalkeeper. By then Ola Martinsson was a three time scorer - a hat trick! An indecisive 'keeper looked on as a free kick by Grilled's Ola Martinsson put the visitors up 1 - 4 after 41 minutes. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 4. Grilled held the ball, with a clear 93 percent of possession.

Grilled's Nui Pakpao received a play slashing through the home side's central defense after 57 minutes, and chipped it past the keeper to score the 1 - 5 goal. The home crowd was not pleased with that one. After this, Grilled lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts. Jon Andrea Rottman received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly 60 minutes into the match, probably out of lack of experience, and almost let an opponent score. 61 minutes into the game, Grilled worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. After 62 minutes of play, Grilled's Asher Stanton unexpectedly struck an inside out ball from no angle at all and Aznan Noor Yadah forwarded it into goal for 1 - 6. Grilled's Tim Hobson" alt="Tim Hobson">Tim Hobson received a play slashing through the home side's central defense after 75 minutes, and chipped it past the keeper to score the 1 - 7 goal. The home crowd was not pleased with that one. With 76 minutes played, Jon Andrea Rottman nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. Grilled's Tim Hobson" alt="Tim Hobson">Tim Hobson received a play slashing through the home side's central defense after 78 minutes, and chipped it past the keeper to score the 1 - 8 goal. The home crowd was not pleased with that one. The referee showed North's Mah Li-Hwa the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Grilled will have to do without Au-Yong Siu-Yue for a time, due to a bad foot injury at the 82 minute mark. He was substituted by Shen Kek-Tjiang. Grilled claimed to be the more dominant force in the game, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 96 percent.

Most important North player was Wu Kar-Kee. Bo Dinh-Nam was a disappointment, however. Most important Grilled player was Shen Kek-Tjiang. Tim Hobson" alt="Tim Hobson">Tim Hobson was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 8.