Grilled 3 - 3 heimu
e 59489 fans in attendance at The Cooking Pot were roasting in the hot sun.
Andrea Parigi was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Pablo Nordman and
Gauderic Goemaes. Grilled had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Stacey - Fonseca, Madaini - Iten, bin Jantan, 尊文 (Zunwen) , 长春 (Changchun), Djekshenkulov - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang) , Ying Lee.
heimu tactics involved an interesting 4-5-1 combination. Starters: Lo Iacono - Facciolo, 奥博 (Aobo) , Triebenbacher, Vagner - Hennig, Grgurović, Konupka, Hinderdael, 偌庆 (Ruoqing) - Turu.
Grilled clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle. heimu were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. heimu was determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favor for the wings. After 3 minutes, heimu put themselves up by 0 - 1, as
Tobies Turu finished off a strike from the left with a real cannon placed at the far post. 14 minutes in, the unpredictable
Tobies Turu of heimu fired a sudden long range shot that flew only inches wide of the post, almost taking out a member of the crowd!
Paolo Iten's free kick after 30 minutes should have scored for Grilled, but the visitors' keeper just managed to get a hand on it. heimu's
薛 (Xue) 偌庆 (Ruoqing) received a play slashing through the home side's central defence after 31 minutes, and chipped it past the keeper to score the 0 - 2 goal. The home crowd was not pleased with that one. The home crowd was given a certain amount of consolation when
田 (Tian) 勇航 (Yonghang) , after a brilliant midfield combination through the middle, reduced the lead to 1 - 2. With 36 minutes played, a phenomenal play on the left side freed
Arnošt Konupka, of heimu, to dash through and score another goal for the visitors. The score was then 1 - 3.
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim almost put the reducer away having drawn the entire left side defence away, but the shot went straight into the arms of the goalkeeper. 1 - 3 was the score after the first half. Grilled held the ball, with a clear 56 percent of possession.
Grilled's
Chow Ying Lee proved that he's been around on a football pitch before, when he took advantage of a few moments of confusion in the opposition's defensive line and elegantly scored for 2 - 3. After 70 minutes, Grilled switched
Qassem Madaini with
林 (Lin) 俊桂 (Jungui), hoping for a quick impact on the pitch.
Dexter Stacey became the new Grilled captain. Many in the crowd felt the referee was being too lenient when he only showed Grilled's
Paolo Iten a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 72 minutes into the game.
Ljubomir Grgurović was the unlucky victim and couldn't continue the game, so heimu's
Lee Chao Cheng had to come off the bench. Central attacks were the recipe of the day for team Grilled, and they were successfully passing the ball from the wing into the middle to get them on. The crowd roared in delight as
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim finished off a spectacular series of passes through the middle to even the score for Grilled 79 minutes into the match. 3 - 3. Grilled made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left
Chow Ying Lee completely alone with keeper
Vittorio Lo Iacono, who made a spectacular block. 88 minutes into the match, the referee signalled for a Grilled substitution.
Yvan Lefébure came on for
Paolo Iten.
Alex Fonseca would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise.
Rosendo Chinchay entered the game for Grilled as the match clock showed 88 minutes. Grilled enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 62 percent of possession.
Grilled's top performer was clearly
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim.
Rosendo Chinchay turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating heimu player was without a doubt
Tobies Turu.
薛 (Xue) 偌庆 (Ruoqing) on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 3.