Fairly good weather for football at the stadium today. Lineup: Mohaed - Le May, Subano, El-Rusan, Caicedo - Duncombe, Iadanza, Karwot, Droessaert - Mustafa, Pfuhlstein.

They fielded: Dob - Webb, Panigrahi - Kamel, Mohammad Harun, ter Berg, Xin Seng, Xin Lee - Parvathaneni, Mudaliar, Egan.

SV Vampires Jordanien trundled out to the pitch in a 4-4-2 formation. The visitors, Grilled Birds, chose to start the game with a 2-5-3 lineup. Grilled seemed to prefer attacking in the middle, using their divine (+7) ability to great effect. Kalle ter Berg really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal following a great flick by Vikram Mudaliar after a corner. After 18 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as Jordanien found themselves out of position and their organization level dropped to solid. A mistake by the home side's central defense after 20 minutes allowed Kalki Parvathaneni to score for Grilled. The visitors have the lead, 0 - 1. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defense 28 minutes into the match, an alert Felipe Caicedo poked the ball past the keeper, bringing Jordanien level at 1 - 1. Devon Duncombe is making an astonishing dash. The fans are chanting his name. You can hear it reverberate around the stadium. Now a manic sprint up the middle and into the box. Oh! He's thrown open the door! He's thrown open the door, shot the ball through, and slammed the door shut on Mr. Tumnus! Jordanien has taken the lead 37 minutes into the match, 2 to 1. There'll be no Turkish Delight after the match for the keeper! A run up the right wing paid off for Grilled as Bernie Egan hit a wicked shot past the keeper to tie the game. 2 - 2 after 39 minutes. Halftime score was 2 - 2. Looks like Nate Silver was right again - his prediction that Grilled would have 72 percent possession in this half was spot on!

The Jordanien coach might have gone through a whole marker putting the playbook up on the board, but it seemed to have worked, with the team regaining a solid organization for the second half. The visiting Salah Kamel was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 50 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 2 - 3 was the score. It was obvious that Grilled had instructions to attack in the middle when they directed a break on the wing into the center of the park. Grilled's Bhavya Panigrahi received a ball slotted perfectly through the home side's central defense after 70 minutes, and chipped it past the helpless keeper to increase the lead to 2 - 4. The away fans won't regret traveling for this one! After the ball was lifted in from the left, Moey Xin Seng was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 77 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. Grilled had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle instead. After 86 minutes, Grilled's Chu Xin Lee burst through the central defense and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 2 - 5. After 87 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Bernie Egan who increased Grilled's lead to 2 - 6. The players were tired, but when the referee announced that there would be 3 minutes of added time, they welcomed the extra opportunity to make an impact. The match ends 2 - 6. Grilled did a good job holding on to the ball, with 75 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.

Most important Jordanien player was Ibrahim El-Rusan. Even six year old fans were wincing at the poor play by Khoury Mustafa today. The most outstanding Grilled player was without a doubt Vikram Mudaliar. Good thing Bhavya Panigrahi isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance.