Benfleet Branch fielded a 3-5-2 lineup. For Grilled Birds, the formation of choice was 2-5-3. Benfleet seemed to prefer attacking in the middle, taking advantage of their mythical level with that tactic.It was an obvious ambition of Grilled to use their magical ability at attacking on the flanks.Grilled had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead.Grilled's Iman Eshrafi gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 3 minutes with a superb strike from the right.Neeraj Muthyala of Grilled seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 0 - 2 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by Cyril Künzler.Grilled increased their lead after 18 minutes when Florus Romijn broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 3, much to the home crowd's dismay.Always quick and a menace to his opponents, Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni was very close to getting through after 28 minutes, but he could only put the ball into the keeper's arms.It was obvious that Grilled had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle.31 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 4 as Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.35 minutes in, Grilled's Islom Davlatov received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.With 36 minutes played, Iman Eshrafi nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar.Some fine movement on the left led to a Grilled goal after 37 minutes, making it 0 - 5. Neeraj Muthyala was noted down as the scorer.Grilled's Mohammad Ramli Saliman got himself booked for a foul.The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 5.Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 61 percent.
After the ball was lifted in from the left, Iman Eshrafi was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 50 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration.Players in Grilled heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead.Islom Davlatov increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 6.Attacking on the wings was the choice for Grilled, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack.Edward Dare got a fingertip on Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni's shot from the left 68 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal.69 minutes were showing on the scoreboard when Grilled's Islom Davlatov received his second yellow card and was sent off.After 69 minutes, Edward Dare strained his groin quite severely and had to be helped off the field by the physio.The replacement for the injured player was Lord Farao. Iman Eshrafi wanted to play on, but the Grilled coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 70 minutes into the game by 田 (Tian) 勇航 (Yonghang).Several players seemed a little dazed by the warm weather, and were repeatedly tricked by the clever and agile 田 (Tian) 勇航 (Yonghang).With 84 minutes played, Grilled put themselves up 0 - 7 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was 田 (Tian) 勇航 (Yonghang).The referee announced 2 minutes of stoppage time, giving fans a slim hope that their team could get one more attack in before this was all over.The match ends 0 - 7.Grilled enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 61 percent of possession.
The most dominating Benfleet player was without a doubt Ayman Shuhabi.However, Lord Farao made a disastrous appearance.Grilled's top performer was clearly 悠太 (Yuta) 中北 (Nakakita).Jérémy Tarin turned in a dismal performance, however.
