Pearl Divers entered the field in a 3-5-2 formation. The visitors, Grilled Birds, chose to start the game with a 2-5-3 lineup.It was an obvious ambition of Divers to use their world class ability at attacking on the flanks.Divers were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings.With 11 minutes played 一. 片桐 (Katagiri) almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide.After 20 minutes, Grilled's P. Mottl made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1.After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, O. Mokhtar got himself booked. The manager of Divers was not happy.The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 1.Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 58 percent.
A. Bouabdallaoui kept the home side in the game with a magnificent save when C. Künzler delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far post.Grilled increased their lead after 58 minutes when M. Xin Seng broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 2, much to the home crowd's dismay.M. Sugawara was unable to continue, following a severe injury to his left knee, 67 minutes into the match. The replacement for the injured player was T. Nguyen. After 77 minutes, speedy C. Künzler dashed past his marker, making plenty of room for the second wave of attack. However, P. Mottl failed to score.M. Xin Seng came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle. He tried to lift the ball over A. Bouabdallaoui but overcooked it and hit the bar instead.The visitors' K. Parvathaneni took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 85 minutes into the match. 0 - 3 for Grilled.After the ball was lifted in from the left, C. Xin Lee was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 87 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration.Content with how the game was proceeding, the Grilled coach let 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) replace P. Mottl after 89 minutes.The players were tired, but when the referee announced that there would be 1 minute of added time they, nonetheless, welcomed the extra opportunity to make an impact.The match ends 0 - 3.Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grilled, with 61 percent of the ball.
Divers's best player was A. Mair.K. How Chin on the other hand, had a terrible day.田. 勇航 (Yonghang) performed admirably for Grilled.On the other hand, C. Mauget's play was disheartening.
