Grilled Birds fielded a 2-5-3 lineup. For St. Xavier's FC, the formation of choice was 3-5-2. Grilled seemed to prefer attacking in the middle, taking advantage of their titanic level with that tactic.After 34 minutes, Xaviers's Mahmoud Arshpour made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1.Kalki Parvathaneni" class="homeplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni made a superb strike after 37 minutes with a shot straight in front of the goal after a long ball through the middle, but one of the visitors' defenders got a foot in at the last second and warded it off for a corner.Barnab�s Csendes received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 38 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 2. The Xaviers fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early.A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from Michael Goldynski after 40 minutes, and prevented Xaviers from going up another goal.Grilled's fans were urging them forward as they tried to get back into the game, and their vocal support was rewarded 42 minutes into the match as Neeraj Muthyala ran onto a beautiful ball played through the visitors' defence and slotted it past the keeper to reduce the deficit. 1 - 2.It was 1 - 2 at the break.Grilled had most of the ball, with 51 percent of possession.
After 47 minutes of play, Neeraj Muthyala evened things up for Grilled with an impressive goal coming up the middle. 2 - 2.The referee showed Xaviers's Michael Goldynski the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.After 69 minutes, Gilbert Webb" class="homeplayer">Gilbert Webb took a hard knock between his legs. He needed a long breather but was eventually able to continue the game.Many thought J�r�my Tarin ought to have been awarded a penalty 72 minutes into the game, as he went down trying to dribble around Tudor Patache after a determined run through the middle.The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to Chan Ze Han" class="homeplayer">Chan Ze Han, but the Grilled player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 3 - 2!After 73 minutes, Xaviers used a short break in the game to take new instructions from their coach.The Xaviers coach was desperate to reverse his team's fortunes in the game, and ordered his team to change strategy.Content with how the game was proceeding, the Grilled coach let Leong Wan Kang replace Islom Davlatov after 88 minutes.It was announced by the referee that he estimated stoppage time to be around 1 minute. This meant there could still be an extra attack or two left in the match!The match ends 3 - 2.Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grilled, with 52 percent of the ball.
