iv id="matchReport"> 4064 spectators arrived at Penones Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Mikhail Belikov was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Onésimo Villadóniga and Ledley Harris. Penones decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Bin Khalifa Al-Mana - Al-Khalla, Sheeb, Shaibei - Al-Hajri, Kadika, Whakaari, Eshaq, Bin Nasser Al-Dafa - Wagner, Ngozi.

Grilled had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. Lineup: Rykowski - 福泉 (Fuquan) , bin Ahmad - Isufi, Xin Seng, Prabhu, Muthyala, 入江 (Irie) - van der Ban, Wan Kang, Bakhtiar.

Slack defending gave Penones a chance to take the lead with 2 minutes played, but M. Al-Hajri's cross from the left flank was fumbled in front of the goal and easily dealt with by the opposition. The referee showed Grilled's N. Muthyala the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, W. Al-Khalla got himself booked. The manager of Penones was not happy. The visitors were very close to gaining the lead with a marvellous free kick after 34 minutes, but N. Bin Khalifa Al-Mana made a beautiful one-handed save. Penones made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left H. Wagner completely alone with keeper K. Rykowski, who made a spectacular block. Some good play on the left wing created an opportunity for the visitors 38 minutes into the match, and 凌. 福泉 (Fuquan) wasn't about to let it go by. He got past the defenders and fired a shot that the keeper just missed. 0 - 1 for the visitors. 0 - 1 was the score after the first half. Penones enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 54 percent of possession.

L. Wan Kang wanted to play on, but the Grilled coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 46 minutes into the game by P. Bellamoli. Penones's M. Al-Hajri made a successful breakthrough on the left after 48 minutes and should have levelled the score, but instead he clipped it over the bar. With 63 minutes played, Grilled's well-worked indirect free kick caused havoc in the penalty area, and when the ball eventually fell to R. van der Ban he gleefully slotted the ball home to make it 0 - 2. R. van der Ban was, after 67 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the centre, but the home side's keeper N. Bin Khalifa Al-Mana made the save. After 81 minutes M. Al-Hajri made a speedy advance and dropped the ball to H. Wagner who shuffled it past the keeper. The score was now 1 - 2. Penones claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

R. Sheeb performed admirably for Penones. However, B. Ngozi made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Grilled player was without a doubt R. bin Ahmad. H. Bakhtiar turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 1 - 2.