The weather was pretty good at the stadium today for the match. Starters: Penişoară - Pérez-Blanco, Kopczyński, Greiner - Árvay, Kullenkvist, Kindle, Afán de Ribera, Ghaghetashvili - Rudewicz, Andronic.

The following players had been selected: Salmiņš - Lunde, Jeftić - Kamel, Chuan Yong, ter Berg, Mohammad Harun, Xin Lee - Parvathaneni, Ze Han, Xin Seng.

Rencelj F.C. fielded a 3-5-2 lineup. For Grilled Birds, the formation of choice was a 2-5-3. Grilled clearly preferred using their divine (+8) (28) ability to attack in the middle today. Kalki Parvathaneni came close to putting the visiting team one up 14 minutes into the match, following a solo raid down the middle, but Irinel Penişoară managed to tip the ball over. 0 - 1 was the score after 38 minutes, when Grilled's Chan Ze Han cut through the central defense and pounded one in. After 39 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Bilal Mohammad Harun who increased Grilled's lead to 0 - 2. 0 - 2 was the score after the first half. Grilled had the upper hand in possession, maintaining an impressive 59 percent possession of the ball.

With 61 minutes played, Chan Ze Han 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. As the 75 minute mark approached, the Grilled manager decided it was time for a substitution. Mateja Jeftić reluctantly made way for Bhavya Panigrahi. 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. After 80 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Salah Kamel off. 吴 (Wu) 敬龙 (Jinglong) took his place. Just a few inches to the right, and the visitors could have had a goal in minute 83. Bhavya Panigrahi was overheard by some in the stands blaming either Grebulon or sunspots, depending on their individual loyalties. After 84 minutes, the defensive line of Rencelj created a counter-attack through the middle that gave Janosch Kindle a good look at goal, but his shot glanced harmlessly off the crossbar. The match ends 0 - 2. Well, look at this! Cardi B is on the Enormotron in naught but giant sunglasses, red tassles, and a Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch tank top. I've not seen anything like it before. The most outstanding Rencelj player was without a doubt Roberto Pérez-Blanco. Good thing Eldar Ghaghetashvili isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance. Grilled's top performer was clearly Chan Ze Han. Speaking of stinking up the place, Bhavya Panigrahi sure smelled like the bottom of Batman's shoe after a night of crimefighting in Gotham.