Chinablack 0 - 5 Grilled
irly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 140500 to Fortress Tactics.
Ville Jokisaari was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Diego Rosas and
Jonas Gernert. The match took place on neutral ground. Chinablack had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. Lineup: bin Mat Arif - Barslev, Ratas, Spiritas, Peoples - Rua, Aik How, Tzung, Pećarić - Nelis, Semprún.
Grilled had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Abed-Sulaiman - Tuan-Mu, Bona, Falkbo - van Liere, Siu-Yue, Rottman, Kek-Tjiang, Paullin - Wai-Kin, Martinsson.
Chinablack clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could. With 16 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending.
Cao Wai-Kin put the ball away for 0 - 1. 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 19 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. Grilled will have to do without
Lorenz Paullin for a time, due to a bad foot injury at the 31 minute mark. He was substituted by
Dani Spirig. The visitors'
Ola Martinsson took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and central backs 39 minutes into the match. 0 - 2 for Grilled. Some fine manoeuvring on the left led to a Grilled goal after 41 minutes, making it 0 - 3.
Fabian Bona was noted down as the scorer. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. Grilled held the ball, with a clear 59 percent of possession.
With 62 minutes played, Grilled's
Ola Martinsson missed a penalty when the keeper made a premature dive in the right direction, and tipped the ball out of the way.
Ola Martinsson 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
Mohd Zaharul Aiman bin Mat Arif and it was a little too high and hit the bar. After 70 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for
Ola Martinsson who increased Grilled's lead to 0 - 4. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Grilled's
Jon Andrea Rottman got himself booked. Some fine manoeuvring on the left led to a Grilled goal after 78 minutes, making it 0 - 5.
Ola Martinsson was noted down as the scorer. This third goal made a hat trick for
Ola Martinsson. Grilled claimed to be the more dominant force in the game, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 59 percent.
The most dominating Chinablack player was without a doubt
Hsiao Tzung.
Aleksiejus Spiritas was a disappointment, however. The most dominating Grilled player was without a doubt
Ahmed Abed-Sulaiman.
Lan Tuan-Mu was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 5.