The teams had chosen different formations for the match. Home team Grilled Birds went for 2-5-3 while jessica FC has decided to play a 3-5-2 lineup.Grilled seemed to prefer attacking in the middle, taking advantage of their titanic level with that tactic.Grilled's Vikram Mudaliar" class="homeplayer">Vikram Mudaliar was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 2 minutes.Kalki Parvathaneni" class="homeplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni's speed is always a threat when he gets a little room to move, and 16 minutes into the match was no different as he broke free of his man to send a delightful through ball to Moey Xin Seng" class="homeplayer">Moey Xin Seng who knocked it in for Grilled. 1 - 0!Central attacks were the recipe of the day for Grilled, as they moved the ball from the wings to the middle with startling regularity.Bilal Mohammad Harun" class="homeplayer">Bilal Mohammad Harun could have increased the lead after 24 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park.jessica's Tristan Brunon's long shot really ought to have found the net 25 minutes into the match, but it fell just wide of the target.Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Chan Ze Han" class="homeplayer">Chan Ze Han squirmed through their central defence after 31 minutes, increasing the lead to 2 - 0.2 - 0 was the score after the first half.Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 55 percent.
The coach of Grilled was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 46 minutes, Chu Xin Lee" class="homeplayer">Chu Xin Lee came on for Islom Davlatov.jessica's Jens Jenß got himself booked for a foul.66 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as Chan Ze Han" class="homeplayer">Chan Ze Han broke through, making the score 3 - 0 for Grilled.Bilal Mohammad Harun" class="homeplayer">Bilal Mohammad Harun wanted to play on, but the Grilled coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 66 minutes into the game by Leong Wan Kang.With 68 minutes showing on the scoreboard clock, jessica showed some good skill and were able to reduce the score to 3 - 1 when Cezar Dincu got past the home side's central defenders right in front of the goal.The Grilled players could smell victory in the air. Neeraj Muthyala wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for Prokop Mottl" class="homeplayer">Prokop Mottl after 70 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 - 1.Grilled had most of the ball, with 53 percent of possession.
