iv id="matchReport"> A scorching day at The Cooking Pot, where 69004 spectators were in place for today's match. Pietro Luca Pirani was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Alexandre Monier and Hans Holdert. Grilled tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Lineup: Tian Han - 福泉 (Fuquan) , Filippone - Ping Shun, Shun An, 长春 (Changchun), Lee Hao, Leong Kum - bin Mohd Kassim, 勇航 (Yonghang) , Ying Lee.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Curiosity. Starters: Skjæveland - Habita, Cavalchi, Mužíček - Nightingale, Bandi, Soon Lee, Novaković, bin Omar - Del Riccio, De Sario.

The corner kick from L. Mužíček was powerfully met by the head of J. Novaković to make the score 0 - 1. The crowd chanted their encouragement as Grilled's L. Lee Hao came in from the right after 5 minutes and put the ball in the net to level the score at 1 - 1. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to W. Shun An, but the Grilled player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 2 - 1! Grilled put themselves up 3 - 1 when C. Ying Lee broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. Confident in their lead, Grilled's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. The teams went for the halftime break at 3 - 1. Curiosity had most of the ball, with 51 percent of possession.

The sun seemed to put M. Del Riccio in a great mood, and he showed off his technical skills all match long. Always quick and a menace to his opponents, H. bin Omar was very close to getting through after 47 minutes, but he could only put the ball into the keeper's arms. Curiosity were desperate to get a goal back and pushed forward through the middle 48 minutes into the game. After a scramble in the box, the ball dropped to D. Nightingale, who smashed it home to make the score 3 - 2. Usually a powerful player on the field, W. Shun An looked kind of pale and tired under the hot sun. Coming through the middle M. Del Riccio almost scored the equaliser for Curiosity after 55 minutes, but W. Tian Han made an excellent save, tipping the awkward curled shot past the post. Grilled's W. Ping Shun was shown a yellow card after 56 minutes for slicing down an opponent. 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) could have put Grilled up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 57 minutes. After 60 minutes, Grilled sent a free kick in high over the penalty box. In what looked like a well-rehearsed move, the ball was headed backwards and reached L. Lee Hao, who had plenty of space to place a well aimed shot - 4 - 2. F. Habita had a couple of good opportunities to reply after getting through the middle of the opposition defence, but the home team's keeper W. Tian Han was simply unbeatable. The coach of Grilled was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 80 minutes, R. Isufi came on for C. Ying Lee. 82 minutes in, Curiosity's D. Nightingale received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The visitors replied 83 minutes into the game, reducing the home side's lead to 4 - 3, as A. Bandi dashed up the middle, easily lobbing the ball over the home team's keeper. G. Filippone wanted to play on, but the Grilled coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 88 minutes into the game by R. bin Ahmad. Curiosity claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 55 percent.

The most dominating Grilled player was without a doubt 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) . However, R. bin Ahmad made a disastrous appearance. Curiosity's best player was M. Del Riccio. N. Cavalchi on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 3.