Grilled 2 - 4 HELP
e crowd of 2804 turning up at The Cooking Pot today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain.
Chris Erwin was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Tobias Hvilshøj and
Emmanuel Kervadec. Grilled tactics involved an interesting 4-3-3 combination. The following players had been chosen: Shun Jin - Mirchev, Woon Jin, bin Yaacob, 顺国 (Shunguo) - Tong Ping, Jun Chang, 达荣 (Darong) - Salieri, Torsson, 力海 (Lihai) .
HELP started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Stankov - Peshev, Vutov, Neshev - Kotarov, Mitin, Stoykov, Milev, Gradishki - Roellinger, Gürses.
Grilled were relying on their ability to counter-attack. The boggy pitch disrupted the game, especially for technical players like
Angel Gradishki The left side created an opportunity for the visitors 19 minutes into the match, and
Iliyan Peshev wasn't about to let it go by. He got past the defenders and fired a shot that the keeper just missed. 0 - 1 for the visitors.
Georgi Stoykov was, after 29 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 Shun Jin made the save.
鄭 (Zheng) 力海 (Lihai) showed why he is feared on the counterattack, scoring for Grilled after 30 minutes to make the score 1 - 1. HELP's 1 - 2 goal came on a questionable penalty, but
Angel Gradishki struck that one home without a second thought.
Tzvetan Vutov of HELP was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. After the ball was lifted in from the left,
Hristo Kotarov was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 35 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. With 38 minutes played, a phenomenal play on the left side freed
Alpay Gürses, of HELP, to dash through and score another goal for the visitors. The score was then 1 - 3. With 39 minutes having been played, HELP's
Tzvetan Vutov had to leave the pitch after receiving his second booking. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 3. This half belonged to HELP, who controlled the ball 72 percent of the time.
After 60 minutes, Grilled switched
鄭 (Zheng) 力海 (Lihai) with
Ângelo Cunha Simões, hoping for a quick impact on the pitch. With the scoreboard showing that 69 minutes had been played, HELP nearly put themselves up another goal after
Alpay Gürses came through on the left. Fortunately for the home crowd, the keeper made the save. Content with how the game was proceeding, the HELP coach let
Bozhidar Zhbantov replace
Hristo Kotarov after 70 minutes. Grilled almost scored after a counterattack 70 minutes into the match, but
Mohd Firdaus bin Yaacob took a shot from the left that landed harmlessly in the side of the net. HELP's
Georgi Stoykov received a play slashing through the home side's central defence after 73 minutes, and chipped it past the keeper to score the 1 - 4 goal. The home crowd was not pleased with that one. After this, HELP lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts. Grilled's
Ivaylo Mirchev got the home crowd going when he finished off a left wing charge, reducing the away team's lead to 2 - 4. HELP claimed to be the more dominant force in the game, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 72 percent.
The most dominating Grilled player was without a doubt
封 (Feng) 达荣 (Darong) . On the other hand,
Lim Shun Jin's play was disheartening.
Angel Gradishki performed admirably for HELP.
Ivaylo Milev on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 4.