newbies 5 - 3 Grilled
e crowd of 39529 turning up at the newbies ground today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain.
Norbert Stefan Pistracher was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Thadäus Harasser and
Tarro Ipskamp. Everyone was excited about the upcoming
Jurong derby and the crowd was divided evenly. A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for newbies. The following players had been chosen: Caamaño - Dan, Hatara - 豪平 (Haoping) , Haley, Sahu, Jing Ting, 偌添 (Ruotian) - Bollini, bin Che Rusli, Skrjanc.
Grilled started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. Lineup: Kryus - 福泉 (Fuquan) , Madaini - bin Jantan, 长春 (Changchun), Shun An, Jing Wei, 尊文 (Zunwen) - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang) , Ying Lee.
The wings were the focus of most of newbies's attacks today. Grilled used their ability to concentrate their attacks in the middle of the pitch, rather than on the wings.
田. 勇航 (Yonghang) was uncomfortable with the soggy pitch as he couldn't move the ball around with his usual grace. After 12 minutes, Grilled's
田. 勇航 (Yonghang) made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1. The crowd chanted their encouragement as newbies's
Roshadi bin Che Rusli came in from the right after 30 minutes and put the ball in the net to level the score at 1 - 1. 1 - 2 was the score with 35 minutes played, after
Zhao Jing Wei cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for Grilled. After 36 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim who increased Grilled's lead to 1 - 3. newbies's
Roshadi bin Che Rusli got the home crowd going when he finished off a left wing charge, reducing the away team's lead to 2 - 3.
Roshadi bin Che Rusli's lightning pace was too much for
朱. 长春 (Changchun) who could only look on as the newbies player blasted one home. 3 - 3. This third goal completed a hattrick for
Roshadi bin Che Rusli.
Chow Ying Lee, who often relies on his speed, had a rotten day on the drenched grass. The teams went for the halftime break at 3 - 3. Neither team was controlling the possession at this point in the match, with the stats showing a 50:50 split.
newbies had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. newbies took the lead 55 minutes in, as
Ante Skrjanc broke through on the left and put the 4 - 3 shot just beyond the reach of the outstretched keeper. With 66 minutes played,
Ante Skrjanc of newbies fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving.
Leow Jing Ting should probably have put his team up another goal after 75 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by
Edmund Kryus kept the visitors in the game. It was obvious that newbies had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. After 82 minutes,
Ante Skrjanc put newbies ahead 5 - 3 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. The players of newbies now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by newbies, with 51 percent of the ball.
newbies's best player was
岳. 豪平 (Haoping) .
Roshadi bin Che Rusli turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating Grilled player was without a doubt
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim. However,
Edmund Kryus made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 5 - 3.