It was to be a contest between two different football philosophies, since the home team started the game with a 5-3-2 formation while the visitors instead opted for 2-5-3.Pressing was the tactic of the day for Griego, taking advantage of their inadequate level with that tactic.Grilled seemed to prefer attacking in the middle, taking advantage of their titanic level with that tactic.The visiting Prokop Mottl" class="awayplayer">Prokop Mottl was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 4 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 0 - 1 was the score.After 4 minutes of play, Florentino Orellano evened things up for Griego with an impressive goal coming up the middle. 1 - 1.A mistake by the home side's central defence after 27 minutes allowed Chan Ze Han" class="awayplayer">Chan Ze Han to score for Grilled. The scoreboard now read 1 - 2.The visitors' Rashid bin Ahmad took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 30 minutes into the match. 1 - 3 for Grilled.Griego's Emilio Merchán got the home crowd going when he finished off a left wing charge, reducing the away team's lead to 2 - 3.32 minutes in, Grilled's Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.Grilled had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks.Halftime score was 2 - 3.Grilled enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 60 percent of possession.
Griego's Lorenzo Márquez was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 52 minutes.A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni after 54 minutes, and prevented Grilled from going up another goal.The counterattacks of Griego were deadly and 55 minutes into the game, Emilio Merchán received a nice pass from the right flank, making it 3 - 3.57 minutes into the game, Prokop Mottl" class="awayplayer">Prokop Mottl was a hair's breadth away from giving Grilled the lead with a shot from over on the left. A prompt block by Ezequiel Lander saved the home team that time.Grilled's Iman Eshrafi got himself booked for a foul.Prokop Mottl" class="awayplayer">Prokop Mottl had a good try after 65 minutes, coming in on a fine move from the left, but the ball went wide.68 minutes into the match, the visiting Grilled made the score 3 - 4 after Jérémy Tarin executed a perfect free kick.Grilled players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead.After 69 minutes, an incisive pass through the middle gave Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni a chance to increase the lead for Grilled, and he did not disappoint. The score was then 3 - 5.Jesús Durán of Griego was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle.Lorenzo Márquez was unable to continue, following a slight injury to his left knee after 72 minutes.Adam McLernontried to hide a smile as he entered the field. He had not expected to get a chance this day. Chan Ze Han" class="awayplayer">Chan Ze Han wanted to play on, but the Grilled coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 88 minutes into the game by Leong Wan Kang.Jérémy Tarin left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 89 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. Gene Filippone was the replacement.Jérémy Tarin was coming off, and had placed his last free kick for the day. That meant that Islom Davlatov got the chance to showcase his dead ball skills.The referee announced 3 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 3 - 5.Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 70 percent.
