It was a scorching day at the stadium today. For some players the sunny weather was bad news. It made Powerful and Quick players a bit sluggish. For Technical players, it was instead an advantage, allowing them to shine on the pitch. They fielded: Salmiņš - Carapaica, Jeftić - Xin Lee, Xin Seng, Mohammad Harun, Chuan Yong, Parvathaneni - Mudaliar, Ze Han, Egan.

Starters: Swandana - Vieira, Wäschle, Johnson - Merkkiniemi, Nachman, Istratov, Lius - Wetzelaar, Gadula.

The teams had chosen different formations for the match. The home team, Grilled Birds, went for a 2-5-3, while Nälkäiset Sedät has decided to play a 3-4-2 lineup. Grilled went for a narrow approach, using their divine (+6) (26) ability to focus their attacks down the middle. Sedät decided to play creatively. 0 - 1 was the score after 22 minutes, when Sedät's Heikki Lius cut through the central defense and pounded one in. Grilled tried to even things up by sending a long ball through the middle, but the visitors' defense easily read the pass. The crowd roared in delight as Chan Ze Han finished off a spectacular series of plays up the middle to even the score for Grilled after 33 minutes. 1 - 1. Was it the hair gel? Was it a gift from the gods? Either way, the faithful won't care. Soaring like a Saturn V, Heikki Lius somehow got his head on a Narciso Vieira moonshot from the corner and buried it in the back of the net. What grace! What power! Plant the flag for Sedät, Neil Armstrong! The score is now 1 - 2. With 40 minutes played, Sedät put themselves up 1 - 3 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was Ivan Wetzelaar. The home crowd was not impressed when Heikki Lius came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 43 minutes. Sedät were now up 1 - 4. That made three goals for Heikki Lius. He'll be taking the match ball home with him having scored a hattrick! It was 1 - 4 at the break. Grilled did a good job holding on to the ball, with 58 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.

46 minutes into the match, the referee signaled for a Grilled substitution. Heng Dong Chu came on for Kalki Parvathaneni. Alexey Istratov 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 Jānis Salmiņš just kept rising and landed in the relieved crowd. 62 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 1 - 5 as Heikki Lius finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular bicycle kick. The home crowd did not lose faith and cheered their team on as they strove to get back into the game. The fans were rewarded after 68 minutes when Bernie Egan burst forward, 5-holed the central defender and then mischievously lobbed the ball over the advancing goalie to make the score 2 - 5. Definitely a SportsCenter Top 10 candidate – DA-DA-DA! DA-DA-DA! Grilled's Chan Ze Han was a tricksy little hobbit and made poor Reggie Johnson look like he had lost his precious. Turns out the precious was in the back of the net - 3 - 5! With the clock showing 70 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board. Chu Xin Lee looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for 吴 (Wu) 敬龙 (Jinglong), though he would have liked to continue. By working their way through the middle, Grilled refused to be intimidated – their efforts finally led to Douglas Carapaica managing to slip the ball past the keeper to make the score 4 - 5. Everyone had expected a shot from the free kick 75 minutes into the game, but Grilled sent the ball sideways instead, giving Heng Dong Chu a clear look at goal with no wall in his way. He sent it through the keeper's legs for 5 - 5! After 80 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Mateja Jeftić off. Bhavya Panigrahi took his place. With Mateja Jeftić no longer on the field, Bhavya Panigrahi was the new set pieces taker. As the match nears its end, the referee deemed it appropriate to add 3 minutes as stoppage time. After 90 minutes of play, Bilal Mohammad Harun gave the home team a 6 - 5 lead after an attack coming in from the right. The match ends 6 - 5. 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 Grilled player was without a doubt Chan Ze Han. You can tell it was nickel beer night yesterday at the local bar because Bhavya Panigrahi seemed to stumble all over the pitch. Sedät's best player was Ivan Wetzelaar. Even six year old fans were wincing at the poor play by Reggie Johnson today.