The clouds were hanging menacingly over the stadium today. The following players had been selected: Dob - Panigrahi, Jeftić - 敬龙 (Jinglong), Ze Han, ter Berg, Kamel, Xin Lee - Parvathaneni, Xin Seng, Egan.

The following players took the field: Santíssimo - Eitzert, Cushway - 祥融 (Xiangrong), 敦仁 (Dunren), Sáng, 允 (Yun), Piachurkin - 傲南 (Aonan), 恩楠 (Ennan), 源翊 (Yuanyi).

As the teams spread out over the pitch, it became clear that they would both be using a 2-5-3 formation today. After 2 minutes, tianying's 李 (Li) 傲南 (Aonan) made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1. The referee showed Grilled's Bhavya Panigrahi the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. After 24 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defense allowed 范 (Fan) 祥融 (Xiangrong) to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 2. After 29 minutes, a deliberate handball from Grilled's Bhavya Panigrahi was judged to be his second bookable offense, and he was sent off. Some fine one-twos on the left led to a tianying goal with 30 minutes gone, making it 0 - 3. Phạm Sáng was noted down as the scorer. The visitors' 李 (Li) 允 (Yun) took advantage of a mix-up between the home side's goalie and center backs 32 minutes into the match. 0 - 4 for tianying. Big paper red cards were being held up by the opposing supporters with 35 minutes on the clock after 李 (Li) 源翊 (Yuanyi)'s mistimed tackle from behind. The referee only showed the tianying player a yellow card though. Halftime score was 0 - 4. tianying set the tempo, maintaining 51 percent of possession.

The home club's fans got back into the match when Moey Xin Seng broke through the visitors' central defense and caught their keeper napping, making it 1 - 4. The away team's 梁 (Liang) 恩楠 (Ennan) took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 55 minutes increasing tianying's lead to 1 - 5. After 67 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for 李 (Li) 允 (Yun) who increased tianying's lead to 1 - 6. The home crowd was briefly mollified when Bernie Egan reduced the lead to 2 - 6 after a brilliant midfield give-and-go through the middle. With the clock showing 80 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board. 吴 (Wu) 敬龙 (Jinglong) looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for Heng Dong Chu, though he would have liked to continue. As the match nears its end, the referee deemed it appropriate to add 4 minutes as stoppage time. 90 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 2 - 7 as 梁 (Liang) 恩楠 (Ennan) finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular bicycle kick. The match ends 2 - 7. tianying did a good job holding on to the ball, with 53 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.

Grilled's top performer was clearly Moey Xin Seng. I can't remember Chu Xin Lee ever having a worse night than he just had. The most outstanding tianying player was without a doubt 梁 (Liang) 恩楠 (Ennan). Good thing 范 (Fan) 祥融 (Xiangrong) isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance.