The teams had chosen different formations for the match. Home team Grilled Birds went for 2-5-3 while SK Maccabi Komín has decided to play a 3-5-2 lineup.After 15 minutes, Maccabi's Attila Balla made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1.Grilled's Cyril Künzler made a successful breakthrough on the left after 17 minutes and should have levelled the score, but instead he clipped it over the bar.Josef Šejba increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 2.It was 0 - 2 at the break.Maccabi enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 51 percent of possession.
Grilled needed a fresh pair of legs on the field, and after 46 minutes Vikram Mudaliar" class="homeplayer">Vikram Mudaliar made way for Islom Davlatov.After 59 minutes, Islom Davlatov had a good opportunity to reduce the scoreline for Grilled with a chance created through the middle, but wasn't cool enough. The ball went miles over the bar.Kalki Parvathaneni" class="homeplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni hit the corner kick straight to the keeper, but it was mishandled, giving Grilled's Islom Davlatov an easy chance to knock it in for 1 - 2.Had it not been for one of the home defenders, Giovanni Iacone would have put Maccabi up another goal 71 minutes into the match with his audacious lob from the right wing.Maccabi increased their lead after 79 minutes when Timos Felekos broke through on the right, upping the score to 1 - 3, much to the home crowd's dismay.With 80 minutes played, the Grilled coach decided a substitution may help turn the game around. Chan Ze Han" class="homeplayer">Chan Ze Han came on, Chu Xin Lee" class="homeplayer">Chu Xin Lee had to leave the fray.The referee showed Grilled's Florus Romijn the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.The home team's supporters got excited again when Chan Ze Han" class="homeplayer">Chan Ze Han broke through the visitors' central defence and caught their keeper off guard, making it 2 - 3.The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave Leon Muckenfuss from Maccabi a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 84 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient!Some fine movement on the left led to a Maccabi goal after 85 minutes, making it 2 - 4. Lee Bennett was noted down as the scorer.As Kalki Parvathaneni" class="homeplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni had, completely unprovoked, swept the legs out from under an opponent in front of a linesman, the referee gave the Grilled player a red card without batting an eyelid.As the match nears its end, the referee has deemed it appropriate to add 1 minute as stoppage time.The match ends 2 - 4.This part of the game was a standoff between the teams in terms of possession.
