Clouds darkened the skies at Undiscovered Paradise as 118331 spectators turned up for the match. Andy Wright was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Tom Haumer and Nobuaki Kobi. The match took place on neutral ground.Curiosity tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination.They fielded: Skjæveland - Mužíček, Buynovskiy, Benedetto - Nightingale, Świątek, bin Yusoff, Soon Lee, bin Omar - De Sario, Wenc.
A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Grilled.Lineup: Tian Han - 福泉 (Fuquan) , Filippone - Aik Jia, 长春 (Changchun), Shun An, Jing Wei, Ping Shun - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang) , Ying Lee.
0 - 1 was the score with 2 minutes played, after Gene Filippone cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for Grilled.Curiosity tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play.Grilled's Chow Ying Lee made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 33 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line.The corner kick from Sergio Benedetto was powerfully met by the head of Ladislav Mužíček to make the score 1 - 1.The home crowd was not impressed by the fancy moves of Grilled's Wong Ping Shun after 35 minutes. He converted a pass from the left for a goal, resulting in the visitors taking the 1 - 2 lead.37 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 1 - 3 as Low Aik Jia finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave Woon Shun An from Grilled a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 38 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient!Woon Shun An got left behind when Curiosity's Dean Nightingale made a sudden run forward after 39 minutes, finishing off with a neat strike. 2 - 3!Haji bin Omar's speed is always a threat when he gets a little room to move, and 40 minutes into the match was no different as he broke free of his man to send a delightful through ball to Filip Wenc who knocked it in for Curiosity. 3 - 3!3 - 3 was the score after the first half.Grilled enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 53 percent of possession.
Grilled took the lead after 53 minutes making the score 3 - 4. Wong Ping Shun placed the ball out of reach for the home side's keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left.After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defence 54 minutes into the match, an alert Bolesław Świątek bagged the ball for Curiosity, levelling the score to 4 - 4.Grilled's Zhao Jing Wei gave the visitors a 4 - 5 lead after 60 minutes with a superb strike from the right.With 65 minutes played, 田 (Tian) 勇航 (Yonghang) nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar.Some fine movement on the left led to a Grilled goal after 66 minutes, making it 4 - 6. 凌 (Ling) 福泉 (Fuquan) was noted down as the scorer.After this, you could see that the players of Grilled were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals.Gene Filippone left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 89 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. Abdul bin Jantan was the replacement.The Grilled players could smell victory in the air. 凌 (Ling) 福泉 (Fuquan) wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for Rashid bin Ahmad after 89 minutes.Low Aik Jia wanted to play on, but the Grilled coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 89 minutes into the game by Leong Wan Kang.Possession in this half belonged to Grilled, who controlled the ball 51 percent of the time.
