Airdragons 3 - 3 Grilled
rdragons started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Vale - Lepik, Torres Martins, Grzesica - Vrochopoulos, Cardozo, Fernandes, Aleixo, van Uden - Popescu, Domingos Sousa.
A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Grilled. The following players took the field: Stacey - 俊桂 (Jungui), Madaini - Shaahee, bin Jantan, 尊文 (Zunwen), 长春 (Changchun), Djekshenkulov - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang), Ying Lee.
It was an obvious ambition of Airdragons to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. 13 minutes had elapsed when a great chance for Airdragons to take the lead after a good cross from the right found
Lourenço Fernando Domingos Sousa alone with the keeper, but he chipped it to the wrong side of the post. Grilled took the lead 19 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant plays down the middle.
Chow Ying Lee was the scorer. With the crowd on their feet chanting wildly, some great moves down the right hand side after 20 minutes gave Airdragons a wonderful opportunity to level the score, and
Lourenço Fernando Domingos Sousa stepped up to the challenge. 1 - 1
Lourenço Fernando Domingos Sousa caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 32 minutes. This gave Airdragons the 2 - 1 lead. The teams went for the halftime break at 2 - 1. Possession was split evenly between the teams.
51 minutes into the match,
Qassem Madaini bent a free kick around the home team's defensive formation, leaving the keeper with no chance for a save. Grilled had levelled the scoreline at 2 - 2. The terraces were silenced after 58 minutes when Grilled's
Qassem Madaini put the guests ahead 2 - 3, following an attack on the right. After 66 minutes of play,
Samuel Lepik equalised for Airdragons after an elegant attack from the right.
Shiya Shaahee would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise.
Paolo Iten entered the game for Grilled as the match clock showed 66 minutes. 70 minutes into the match, the referee signalled for a Airdragons substitution.
Edvard Villmones came on for
Dumitru Popescu. 83 minutes into the game,
林 (Lin) 俊桂 (Jungui) was a hair's breadth away from giving Grilled the lead with a shot from over on the left. A prompt block by
Tiago Vale saved the home team that time. Under heavy pressure after 84 minutes, the inexperienced Airdragons struggled to maintain their level of play. Grilled had had most of the ball, with 57 percent of possession.
Most important Airdragons player was
Lourenço Fernando Domingos Sousa. However,
Toni van Uden made a disastrous appearance. Grilled's best player was
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim. On the other hand,
Paolo Iten's play was disheartening. The match ends 3 - 3.