newbies are newbies started the game in a 5-3-2 formation, whereas Grilled Birds lined up in a 2-5-3 formation. newbies clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could, taking advantage of their extra-terrestrial level with that tactic.Grilled tried to focus their attacks down the middle, taking advantage of their utopian level with that tactic.Martin Tung of newbies seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 1 - 0 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by Brendan Pham.Grilled tied it all up, 7 minutes in, after a spectacular goal by 悠太 (Yuta) 中北 (Nakakita), who miraculously broke through the home side's central defence, making it 1 - 1.Vikram Mudaliar" class="awayplayer">Vikram Mudaliar's lightning pace was too much for Guan Wen Jin who could only look on as the Grilled player blasted one home. 1 - 2.After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Moey Xin Seng" class="awayplayer">Moey Xin Seng got himself booked. The manager of Grilled was not happy.The visitors' Hoàng Trung Quá took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 24 minutes into the match. 1 - 3 for Grilled.1 - 3 was the score after the first half.Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 58 percent.
Seetoh Aik Beng got a fingertip on Vikram Mudaliar" class="awayplayer">Vikram Mudaliar's shot from the left 50 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal.The goal to make it 2 - 3 was scored by Gan Seng An after 51 minutes, following an opportunistic counterattack down the middle by newbies.悠太 (Yuta) 中北 (Nakakita) increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 2 - 4.With 70 minutes played, Ang Han Ah was very close to reducing the score for newbies with a low drive from the left, but a defender stuck his foot out just in the nick of time, blocking the shot to a corner.Cyril Künzler was, after 74 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the centre, but the home side's keeper Seetoh Aik Beng made the save.76 minutes into the match, newbies's Gan Seng An collected a ball sent down the right and put it in the back of the net, narrowing the score to 3 - 4.Grilled will have to do without Chu Xin Lee" class="awayplayer">Chu Xin Lee for a time, due to a bad rib injury at the 81 minute mark.This gave Chan Ze Han" class="awayplayer">Chan Ze Han a chance to take to the field instead.The coach of Grilled was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 89 minutes, Leong Wan Kang came on for Kalki Parvathaneni" class="awayplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni.As the match nears its end, the referee has deemed it appropriate to add 1 minute as stoppage time.The match ends 3 - 4.Possession in this half belonged to Grilled, who controlled the ball 58 percent of the time.
newbies's top performer was clearly Eric Johnson.On the other hand, Ang Han Ah's play was disheartening.Grilled's best player was Cyril Künzler.Hoàng Trung Quá turned in a dismal performance, however.