Grilled Birds entered the field in a 2-5-3 formation. The visitors, Samba Selandia, chose to start the game with a 3-4-3 lineup.Grilled tried to focus their attacks down the middle, taking advantage of their divine (+1) level with that tactic.Samba mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle, taking advantage of their magnificent level with that tactic.Grilled fans held their breath as Islom Davlatov scampered down the left side. He successfully avoided all challenges and cracked home the shot for 1 - 0!The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave Ingo Zähner from Samba a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 16 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient!After 20 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and Kalki Parvathaneni" class="homeplayer">Kalki Parvathaneni gave the Grilled supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 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.Grilled solidified their lead at the 36 minute mark, as Bilal Mohammad Harun" class="homeplayer">Bilal Mohammad Harun dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 3 - 0.With 38 minutes played, Grilled put themselves up 4 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to Chan Ze Han" class="homeplayer">Chan Ze Han, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home.Chan Ze Han" class="homeplayer">Chan Ze Han should probably have put his team up another goal after 39 minutes after breaking through the middle, but some great goalkeeping by Rinaldo Lenzi kept the visitors in the game.4 - 0 was the halftime score.Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grilled, with 63 percent of the ball.
Grilled were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally.58 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as Chu Xin Lee" class="homeplayer">Chu Xin Lee broke through, making the score 5 - 0 for Grilled.After 73 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by Islom Davlatov might have resulted in another goal for Grilled. However, Rinaldo Lenzi made a spectacular save.The players were tired, but when the referee announced that there would be 1 minute of added time they, nonetheless, welcomed the extra opportunity to make an impact.The match ends 5 - 0.Grilled claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 65 percent.
