iv id="matchReport"> The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 48334 had shown up at Arcturus Starworks for the match. Pat O'Donnell was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Kubilay Mürsel and Lutz-Dieter Andrae.Arcturules tactics involved an interesting 5-5-0 combination.Lineup: Zain - Jun Nie, Ah Yeng, Ezz, 中北 (Nakakita), Yi Soon - Kapecki, Fuso, Skutecki, Almofrei, Heiderbach -.
Grilled decided to use a 2-5-3 set up.The following players took the field: Tian Han - Jing Wei, Filippone - Ping Shun, Won, Meyer, Leong Kum, 入江 (Irie) - bin Mohd Kassim, Lee Hao, 勇航 (Yonghang).
Grilled clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle.Arcturules broke through on the left 14 minutes into the game, with J. Kapecki firing in from an acute angle to give the home side a 1 - 0 lead.The visitors refused to give in and, after 23 minutes, W. Ping Shun evened things up as he finished off a perfect pass from the right. 1 - 1The home side put themselves ahead 2 - 1 after 26 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from C. Fuso, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing.2 - 1 was the score after the first half.Neither team was controlling the possession at this point in the match, with the stats showing a 50:50 split.
C. Fuso could have increased the lead after 57 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park.Grilled's G. Filippone got himself booked for a foul.A great save by keeper W. Tian Han after 68 minutes kept the visitors in the game after C. Almofrei struck from the left with a real cannonball.Good work by the Arcturules defensive line after 70 minutes produced a good counterattack chance, which cut elegantly down the middle of the pitch and found T. Jun Nie alone in front of the goal, but his shot whistled just wide.Arcturules's H. Ah Yeng was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 78 minutes.Things were deteriorating for the away team as Arcturules scored another to make it 3 - 1 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for H. Yi Soon after 79 minutes.Grilled were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally.Although the whole team were struggling to impress, Grilled's L. Lee Hao was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 89 minutes. L. Wan Kang was given a chance to change things around.Arcturules claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 51 percent.
Arcturules's top performer was clearly T. Jun Nie.However, K. Ezz made a disastrous appearance.Most important Grilled player was M. bin Mohd Kassim.Z. Jing Wei on the other hand, had a terrible day.The match ends 3 - 1.