We had overcast weather free of rain at the stadium today. They fielded: Hunt - Haasan, Balzaretti, Sage - Malloy, Etheridge, Richards, Dantzler-Culberth, Garza - Socha, Pinilla.

Lineup: Salmiņš - Lunde, Jeftić - Kamel, Chuan Yong, ter Berg, Mohammad Harun, Dong Chu - Parvathaneni, Ze Han, Xin Seng.

The teams had chosen different formations for the match. The home team, Hot Skunkks, went for a 3-5-2, while Grilled Birds has decided to play a 2-5-3 lineup. Salah Kamel managed to make an excellent pass from the wing, but Heng Dong Chu was not as skillful and couldn't finish it off. The visitors' central defense should have had no trouble clearing the pass to Cody Socha, but the Skunkks player managed to shrug them off and fire a low shot that 5-holed the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! Salah Kamel tied the game at 1 - 1 after 24 minutes, when he converted an incredible pass from the right. After 29 minutes, Grilled's Kalki Parvathaneni made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 1 - 2. The away team's Kalle ter Berg took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 32 minutes increasing Grilled's lead to 1 - 3. 1 - 3 was the halftime score. Grilled set the tempo, maintaining 58 percent of possession.

Moey Xin Seng came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle, but his attempted chip over Stephon Hunt just kept rising and landed in the relieved crowd. Maybe it was because of his team's lead, or maybe it was due to the ease with which he broke down the left, but Bilal Mohammad Harun was a bit too sure of his talents, so instead of taking the easy tap-in goal after 70 minutes, he went for the backheel, which he put woefully wide. With 70 minutes played, Bilal Mohammad Harun nearly put the visitors up by one more as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot whizzed just over the bar. After 75 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Mateja Jeftić off. Bhavya Panigrahi took his place. As Mateja Jeftić left the field, the coach signaled to Bhavya Panigrahi to start taking the set pieces that occurred. 80 minutes into the game, Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game. Kalki Parvathaneni gave Vikram Mudaliar a quick hug as he left the field. As the match nears its end, the referee deemed it appropriate to add 1 minutes as stoppage time. After 89 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Chan Ze Han who increased Grilled's lead to 1 - 4. The match ends 1 - 4. Grilled did a good job holding on to the ball, with 58 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.

Most important Skunkks player was Cody Socha. You can tell it was nickel beer night yesterday at the local bar because Stephon Hunt seemed to stumble all over the pitch. Grilled's top performer was clearly Chan Ze Han. Even six year old fans were wincing at the poor play by Bhavya Panigrahi today.