Capricorn United entered the field in a 3-5-2 formation. The visitors, Grilled Birds, chose to start the game with a 2-5-3 lineup.Grilled clearly preferred using their mythical ability to attack in the middle.Iman Eshrafi of Grilled received a yellow card after 10 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour.Julien Dudouet was very close to giving Capricorn the lead with an ingenious free kick routine 11 minutes into the match, but the ball just grazed the bar.Grilled took the lead 26 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. Mohammad Ramli Saliman was the scorer.The visitors' Rashid bin Ahmad took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 27 minutes into the match. 0 - 2 for Grilled.The home crowd were delighted when Oli Näscher scored with a header after an attack from the right, making the score 1 - 2. But did he use his hand? That'll be one for the pundits to talk about after the game, that's for sure!The referee showed Grilled's Mohammad Ramli Saliman the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.After 39 minutes, Julien Dudouet was massaging his left knee with a worried look on his face, but managed to get up in the end. After 40 minutes of game time, Chu Xin Lee" class="awayplayer">Chu Xin Lee had an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors' lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but Tomàs Teixidó was in the right place and tipped the ball over for a corner.After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defence 41 minutes into the match, an alert Leon Hanakampf bagged the ball for Capricorn, levelling the score to 2 - 2.2 - 2 was the halftime score.Capricorn claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 54 percent.
Grilled players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead.The visiting Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 51 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 2 - 3 was the score.With a shot curled in from just outside the middle of the penalty area after 57 minutes played, Leon Hanakampf of Capricorn made the score 3 - 3.The terraces were silenced after 63 minutes when Grilled's Prokop Mottl" class="awayplayer">Prokop Mottl put the guests ahead 3 - 4, following an attack on the right.Moey Xin Seng" class="awayplayer">Moey Xin Seng of Grilled seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 3 - 5 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by Jérémy Tarin.The home crowd was given a certain amount of consolation when Oli Näscher scored after a brilliant midfield combination through the centre, reducing the lead to 4 - 5.The Grilled players could smell victory in the air. Rashid bin Ahmad wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for Mohd Jafni Abdul Majid" class="awayplayer">Mohd Jafni Abdul Majid after 80 minutes.Dante Tran" class="awayplayer">Dante Tran left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 88 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. 田 (Tian) 勇航 (Yonghang) was the replacement.The coach of Grilled was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 88 minutes, Remco van der Ban came on for Jérémy Tarin.Jérémy Tarin was coming off, and had placed his last free kick for the day. That meant that 田 (Tian) 勇航 (Yonghang) got the chance to showcase his dead ball skills.As the match nears its end, the referee has deemed it appropriate to add 2 minutes as stoppage time.After 89 minutes, Capricorn's Leon Hanakampf surprised everyone as he managed to intercept a pass intended for the opposing keeper and flip it in, making the score 5 - 5.This third goal completed a hattrick for Leon Hanakampf.A mistake by the home side's central defence after 89 minutes allowed Mohd Jafni Abdul Majid" class="awayplayer">Mohd Jafni Abdul Majid to score for Grilled. The scoreboard now read 5 - 6.The match ends 5 - 6.Neither team were able to dominate possession this half.
