Singapore 1 - 8 Grilled
050 spectators arrived at Singapore National Stadium, where weather conditions were pretty good for football.
Rudolf Ransmayr was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Ştefan-Robert Căruntu and
Hansjörg Brennwald. Singapore had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. They fielded: bin Osman - Chi-Leung, Jun Lai, Sheng-Nan - bin Mohamed, Ming Yu, Ascoeta, bin Abu - Huang, Hoppus, Åubiarz.
Grilled tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Abed-Sulaiman - Liehner, Bona, Alcántara - Siu-Yue, Spirig, Jie Siong, Borup, Kek-Tjiang - Wai-Kin, Hjortlind.
With 11 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending.
Cao Wai-Kin put the ball away for 0 - 1. The game had been on for 14 minutes when
Marcus Liehner broke through on the right, upping the score for Grilled to 0 - 2, much to the home crowd's dismay. 17 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 3 as
Ulf Hjortlind finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. The visitors'
Marcus Liehner took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and central backs 18 minutes into the match. 0 - 4 for Grilled. The referee signalled a penalty 19 minutes into the game following an offence just inside of the box.
Marcus Liehner knocked home the 0 - 5 goal just outside the reach of the goalkeeper. By then
Marcus Liehner was a three time scorer - a hat trick! After this, Grilled lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts. 0 - 5 was the halftime score. The forty-five minutes were dominated by Grilled, with an impressive 78 percent possession of the ball.
66 minutes into the game, Grilled were awarded a penalty and
Marcus Liehner was able to increase the visitors' lead to 0 - 6 rolling the ball in by the right post.
Terkel Borup received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly 82 minutes into the match, probably out of lack of experience, and almost let an opponent score.
Marcus Liehner could have added one to the visitors' lead if his free kick had gone just a little lower. A header from
Mohd Amran bin Mohamed connected with a corner kick after 88 minutes, and the ball ended up with
Kamarulzaman bin Abu of Singapore who shot home the 1-6 goal. After the ball was lifted in from the left,
Cao Wai-Kin was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 90 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. The visitors'
Cao Wai-Kin took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and central backs 90 minutes into the match. 1 - 7 for Grilled. The visitors'
Cao Wai-Kin took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and central backs 90 minutes into the match. 1 - 8 for Grilled. By then
Cao Wai-Kin was a three time scorer - a hat trick! The forty-five minutes were dominated by Grilled, with an impressive 80 percent possession of the ball.
Most important Singapore player was
Marek Åubiarz.
Ng Ming Yu on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Grilled player was
Ahmed Abed-Sulaiman.
Luis Alcántara on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 1 - 8.