iv id="matchReport"> 87724 spectators had come to The Special Place this cloudy day. Leif Eriksen was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Leif-Enar Saikkonen and Vladica Zdravkovic.People from all over Jurong had joined up for the derby.Champions started off with a 4-5-1 lineup.The following players took the field: Ortega - van Wijk, Vaidhyanathan, Bejan, Göransson - Tse Jian, Zuberbühler, 世昉 (Shifang), Pang, Pouderoux - Ütkün.
Grilled decided to use a 2-5-3 set up.They fielded: Tian Han - 福泉 (Fuquan) , bin Ahmad - Ping Shun, Meyer, Shun An, Lee Hao, 长春 (Changchun) - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang) , Ying Lee.
For their match strategy, Champions had decided to use their ability to counter-attack whenever possible.Grilled seemed to prefer attacking in the middle.Grilled were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally.Grilled took the lead 11 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. C. Meyer was the scorer.Grilled had a magnificent opportunity after 13 minutes as 朱. 长春 (Changchun) hit the ball hard from the edge of the penalty box. However, the shot went wide.Grilled increased their lead after 29 minutes when C. Ying Lee broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 2, much to the home crowd's dismay.By now, the players in Grilled felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward.The referee showed Grilled's 凌. 福泉 (Fuquan) the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.The counterattacks of Champions were deadly and 44 minutes into the game, A. Pang received a nice pass from the right flank, making it 1 - 2.1 - 2 was the halftime score.Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grilled, with 57 percent of the ball.
W. Shun An received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 52 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 1 - 3. The Grilled fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early.At 72 minutes into the game, Champions's D. Bejan deftly knocked the ball home after an impressive run down the left, reducing the visitors' lead to 2 - 3.M. bin Mohd Kassim increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 2 - 4.The Grilled players could smell victory in the air. R. bin Ahmad wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for Q. Madaini after 85 minutes.Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 57 percent.
The most dominating Champions player was without a doubt A. Ütkün.On the other hand, B. van Wijk's play was disheartening.Grilled's top performer was clearly 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) .However, Q. Madaini made a disastrous appearance.The match ends 2 - 4.