The weather was pretty good at the stadium today for the match. Lineup: Salmiņš - Lunde, Jeftić - Kamel, Chuan Yong, ter Berg, Mohammad Harun, Xin Lee - Parvathaneni, Ze Han, Xin Seng.

Starters: Saïïdi - Ben-Yossef, Valencina - Graham, Serafim, Wrzyszcz, Kanchan, Williams - Radu, Konatić, Conta.

Both teams came out with a similar approach to the match, having chosen to start with a 2-5-3 formation. Grilled mostly ignored the flanks in favor of their divine (+8) (28) ability to attack in the middle. Oh dear - the keeper's made a mess of that one. The crowd was very disappointed after he let Rokonuzzaman Kanchan get the go-ahead goal with a speculative shot from the right after 26 minutes. 0 - 1. An accurate cross from lions's Junior Graham was met with a wonderful off-balance header from Jędrzej Wrzyszcz, hitting the inside base of the post before curling up into the back of the net like a dog in front of a fire for 0 - 2. Kalki Parvathaneni tried using a burst of speed to get past his defender after 37 minutes, but it takes more than that to get past speedy Horacio Valencina. 38 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 3 as Christian Conta finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular bicycle kick. The ball was in the back of the home team's net yet again after 40 minutes, but this time the referee called the goal back because Christian Conta had knocked a member of the opposing team to the ground while the play occurred down the middle of the field. 0 - 3 was the score after the first half. Grilled set the tempo, maintaining 53 percent of possession.

Some fine one-twos on the left led to a lions goal with 49 minutes gone, making it 0 - 4. Doru Radu was noted down as the scorer. Grilled players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead. The home side worked hard to get through the middle and as a result, had a good chance of getting one back as Chu Xin Lee tried lifting the ball over keeper Amellal Saïïdi. Unfortunately, the ball went just over the bar. With the clock showing 75 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board. Mateja Jeftić looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for Bhavya Panigrahi, though he would have liked to continue. With Mateja Jeftić no longer on the field, Bhavya Panigrahi was the new set pieces taker. 80 minutes into the match, the referee signaled for a Grilled substitution. Vikram Mudaliar came on for Kalki Parvathaneni. 80 minutes into the game, Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game. Salah Kamel gave 吴 (Wu) 敬龙 (Jinglong) a quick hug as he left the field. It was announced by the fourth official that he estimated stoppage time to be around 1 minutes. This meant there could still be an extra attack or two left in the match! Given a free kick in a difficult position after 89 minutes, Grilled tried a variation that they had practiced in training. The kick was sent into the area just in front of the keeper, however, the defense were on their toes and allowed no space for a finish. The match ends 0 - 4. Grilled had the upper hand in possession, maintaining an impressive 52 percent possession of the ball.

Grilled's top performer was clearly Chan Ze Han. I can't remember Chu Xin Lee ever having a worse night than he just had. lions's best player was Doru Radu. Good thing Horacio Valencina isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance.