It was a scorching day at the stadium today. The intense heat made it hard for players relying on strength or speed to shine. On the other hand, it provided perfect conditions for the more technical players. The following players took the field: Pradel - Yetiş, Fraser, Puyol, Tolonen - Houde Aditi, Aşina, Maistruk, Bulwiński, Carrillo - Pomakoğlu.

Lineup: Dob - Panigrahi, Jeftić - Xin Lee, ter Berg, Mohammad Harun, Kamel, Ze Han - Xin Seng, Mudaliar, Parvathaneni.

küplüce fielded a 4-5-1 lineup. For Grilled Birds, the formation of choice was a 2-5-3. Grilled went for a narrow approach, using their divine (+8) (28) ability to focus their attacks down the middle. Thomas Fraser had been given instructions to man mark Moey Xin Seng. And he carried his orders out perfectly, following close, reducing the options for his mark. 14 minutes had elapsed when a great chance for küplüce to take the lead after a good ball from the right found Kouandete Houde Aditi alone with the keeper, but he chipped it to the wrong side of the post. The 27 minute mark saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a breaking through on the left. The scorer for küplüce was Douglas Carrillo. Douglas Carrillo let loose a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. Central attacks were the recipe of the day for Grilled, and they were successfully passing the ball from the wing into the middle at the behest of their coach. If the home side can close out the game with their lead intact, they'll have Eduardo Pradel to thank, after he made a stunning leap to deny Salah Kamel from scoring the equalizer after a run through the center 31 minutes in. 1 - 0 was the score after the first half. Grilled set the tempo, maintaining 52 percent of possession.

Grilled's Chan Ze Han set up a perfect opportunity for Salah Kamel, but the latter failed to score. Grilled got a chance to level the scores in minute 60 as Moey Xin Seng suddenly found himself free with only the keeper to beat, but the finish hit the bar. After 60 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by Hakim Aşina might have resulted in another goal for küplüce. However, Massoud Dob made a spectacular save. küplüce's Kouandete Houde Aditi rushed past his defender and should have scored, but the finish was just wide, taking some paint off the post as it went out. Grilled had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle instead. With 74 minutes played, the visitors could have scored the tying goal after Vikram Mudaliar came through the middle, but his kick went wide. As the 75 minute mark approached, the Grilled manager decided it was time for a substitution. Chu Xin Lee reluctantly made way for 吴 (Wu) 敬龙 (Jinglong). Łukasz Bulwiński gave küplüce supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0 after 75 minutes, following a good exchange of passes on the right that the away team failed to deal with. Grilled's Moey Xin Seng was shown a yellow card after 76 minutes for slicing down an opponent. After 85 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Chan Ze Han off. Cyril Künzler took his place. The match ends 2 - 0. Grilled had the upper hand in possession, maintaining an impressive 51 percent possession of the ball.

küplüce's best player was Sabit Pomakoğlu. You can tell it was nickel beer night yesterday at the local bar because Thomas Fraser seemed to stumble all over the pitch. Kalki Parvathaneni performed admirably for Grilled. Even six year old fans were wincing at the poor play by Cyril Künzler today.