Football 1 - 6 Grilled
5-5-0 alignment was the formation of choice for Football. The following players took the field: Teodorof - Savagnone, Puig, Visonà, Okeefe, Persicchio - Trottmann, Jin Guang, Gulikers, Moraru, Jolly -.
Grilled started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. Lineup: Kryus - 福泉 (Fuquan), Madaini - Shaahee, 长春 (Changchun), Shun An, Djekshenkulov, 尊文 (Zunwen) - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang), Ying Lee.
Football clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could. Grilled tried to focus their attacks down the middle. Grilled took the lead after 18 minutes making the score 0 - 1.
Shiya Shaahee placed the ball out of reach for the home side's keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left.
M. Visonà neatly controlled the ball after a short corner, and knocked it on to
Guillermo Puig who had the whole net open before him, but only managed to hit the post. After 20 minutes, an incisive pass through the middle gave
Qassem Madaini a chance to increase the lead for Grilled, and he did not disappoint. The score was then 0 - 2. With clinical precision, the cross from winger
Shiya Shaahee found its way to
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim's head, and a screaming header gave Grilled the goal after 24 minutes played. 0 - 3
田. 勇航 (Yonghang) received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 29 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 4. The Grilled fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. 0 - 4 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grilled, with 70 percent of the ball.
The visitors'
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 65 minutes into the match. 0 - 5 for Grilled. After this, you could see that the players of Grilled were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals.
Pierre Jolly of Football seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 1 - 5 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by
Chad Okeefe. Grilled were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. With 77 minutes gone, a long pass from the defence of Football resulted in a counterattack that set
Ong Jin Guang free through the middle, but the keeper made a spectacular diving save.
田. 勇航 (Yonghang) was struggling to make the ball dance with his usual trickery and panache, and the opposing players had little trouble shutting him down in these muddy conditions. Grilled had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks. After 82 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for
Chow Ying Lee who increased Grilled's lead to 1 - 6. It was obvious that team Grilled had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings.
Qassem Madaini came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle. He tried to lift the ball over
Ştefan Teodorof but overcooked it and hit the bar instead. Grilled's
Chow Ying Lee was shown a yellow card after 85 minutes for slicing down an opponent. 86 minutes into the match,
Seytek Djekshenkulov came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. Coming in from the right, Football had a good opportunity to convert on a counterattack after 87 minutes, but
Chad Okeefe's attempt to finish was easily stopped. Grilled had most of the ball, with 72 percent of possession.
Football's top performer was clearly
M. Visonà.
Robert Moraru was a disappointment, however.
Chow Ying Lee performed admirably for Grilled. On the other hand,
Edmund Kryus's play was disheartening. The match ends 1 - 6.