Weather conditions were pretty good for football today. The following players had been selected: Dob - Webb, Panigrahi - Künzler, Xin Seng, Muthyala, Ze Han, Dong Chu - Parvathaneni, Egan, Mudaliar.

Lineup: Anguita - Bourhis, Blasi, Ingram, Vnuk, Feulner - Futera, Tamm, Elken, van Herten - Fremiot.

It was to be a contest between two different football philosophies, since the home team started the game with a 2-5-3 formation while the visitors instead opted for a 5-4-1. Grilled clearly preferred using their divine (+6) ability to attack in the middle today. A divine (+3) level of counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of R.F. Grilled created a good opportunity to score 27 minutes into the game when Vikram Mudaliar's hooked ball from the left created a scuffle in front of the goal, but the visitors' defenders eventually won out. Grilled had a chance to take the lead after Kalki Parvathaneni's dazzling drive up the left, but the opportunity fizzled away as his shot went just over the bar with 33 minutes played. 34 minutes into the game, R.F seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a weak level of organization. Cyril Künzler raced down the wing after 36 minutes and managed to get through the defense, but he lost his footing and sent the cross out for a throw-in. With 38 minutes of the match played, a comedy of errors by the home side gave the visitors a chance at the lead, but Alan Tamm, after dashing down on goal from the left and finding himself with only the keeper to beat, sliced his shot horribly wide. Neeraj Muthyala dispatched a majestic long shot 40 minutes in, but missed the goal by a few yards. R.F made a good counter-attacking move down the left 41 minutes into the game, and Ivo Futera finished well for 0 - 1. 0 - 1 was the score after the first half. Well, look at this! Nikki Minaj is on the Jumbotron in naught but pink lipstick, soccer balls, and a Ben Nevis of platinum hair. I've not seen anything like it before. She's not got enough room inside her for a rheumatic pain. Can you hear her? During the break, R.F's coach went through the team's tactics yet again, getting them up to solid organization. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defense 50 minutes into the match, an alert Vikram Mudaliar poked the ball past the keeper, bringing Grilled level at 1 - 1. After more pushing and shoving than a pack of helicopter moms trying to get the last appointment for their snowflakes to see the Easter Bunny, R.F's Vladislav Vnuk finally got himself booked for a foul. Grilled took the lead 56 minutes in, after Chan Ze Han's awkward, but ultimately successful, shot from the right. 2 - 1. Alan Tamm showed why he is feared on the counter-attack, breaking through in the middle and scoring for R.F after 69 minutes to make the score 2 - 2. The visitors' central defense should have had no trouble clearing the pass to Kalki Parvathaneni, but the Grilled player managed to shrug them off and fire a low shot that 5-holed the keeper to give his team the lead. 3 - 2! With the clock showing 75 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board. Moey Xin Seng looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for Radovan Jaška, though he would have liked to continue. As the captain was no longer on the field, Chan Ze Han took over the role for Grilled. After 77 minutes Bernie Egan made a speedy advance and dropped the ball to Kalki Parvathaneni who blasted it past the keeper. The score was now 4 - 2. With 79 minutes played, R.F showed they hadn't given up and were able to reduce the score to 4 - 3 when Vladislav Vnuk got past the home side's central defenders right in front of the goal. It was announced by the fourth official that he estimated stoppage time to be around 3 minutes. This meant there could still be an extra attack or two left in the match! With the match clock reading 89 minutes, the inexperienced Grilled team fell into disarray. 90 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defense had to look on as Cyril Künzler ran straight through, knocking one home to make it 5 - 3 for Grilled. The match ends 5 - 3. Grilled did a good job holding on to the ball, with 59 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.

Grilled's best player was Bernie Egan. Speaking of stinking up the place, Radovan Jaška sure smelled like the bottom of Batman's shoe after a night of crimefighting in Gotham. R.F's top performer was clearly Lilian Fremiot. You can tell it was nickel beer night yesterday at the local bar because Winfried Feulner seemed to stumble all over the pitch.