iv id="matchReport"> Dark skies made the crowd of 83733 at HitMen Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Adam Gavrilović was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Karim Wippel and Mario Alberto Ruiz. The match took place on neutral ground. Warrior decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Starters: Liefke - Boschetto, Kessel, Aurigemma - Liaw, Nacci, Arce, Somma, Rapacchi - Chi Huat, Gogliucci.

A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Grilled. The following players had been chosen: Rykowski - Lee Hao, Filippone - Ping Shun, Shun An, 长春 (Changchun), Jing Wei, Aik Jia - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang) , Ying Lee.

The corner kick from C. Nacci was powerfully met by the head of C. Boschetto to make the score 1 - 0. After a short break after 6 minutes, Warrior seemed to change their tactical approach a bit. Grilled's L. Aik Jia was shown a yellow card after 11 minutes for slicing down an opponent. R. Liaw knocked one home from a counterattack down the right wing, making the score 2 - 0 after 13 minutes. By now, the players in Warrior felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. A great save by keeper K. Rykowski after 28 minutes kept the visitors in the game after X. Chi Huat struck from the left with a real cannonball. Warrior's C. Nacci refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 35 minutes. 36 minutes into the game, Grilled's attack got through on the right, but C. Ying Lee couldn't handle the ball and his feeble kick wound up in the keeper's arms. The visitors replied 39 minutes into the game, reducing the home side's lead to 2 - 1, as 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) dashed up the middle, easily lobbing the ball over the home team's keeper. 40 minutes into the match the visitors levelled the score at 2 - 2 as M. bin Mohd Kassim struck home from a rebound off the crossbar, following a shot from the right. 2 - 2 was the halftime score. Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 61 percent.

They were singing the praises of X. Chi Huat 51 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 3 - 2 to Warrior. 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) made a good effort at breaking through on the right, but the home team's left defence cleared the ball to a corner. After 61 minutes X. Chi Huat made a speedy advance and dropped the ball to I. Gogliucci who shuffled it past the keeper. The score was now 4 - 2. Grilled fought on and, after 62 minutes, W. Shun An was able to reduce the deficit to 4 - 3 after some excellent moves on the right side were finished off with an incredibly clever chip. The referee showed Warrior's I. Gogliucci the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. W. Shun An was the unlucky victim and couldn't continue the game, so Grilled's C. Meyer had to come off the bench. The Warrior players could smell victory in the air. I. Gogliucci wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for J. Reviľák after 80 minutes. The bench was restless, and with 85 minutes passed Grilled's coach gave 凌. 福泉 (Fuquan) the opportunity the player had been hoping for. L. Lee Hao reluctantly left the field. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grilled, with 62 percent of the ball.

Most important Warrior player was X. Chi Huat. On the other hand, R. Liaw's play was disheartening. 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) performed admirably for Grilled. K. Rykowski turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 4 - 3.