The fans braved the pouring rain at the stadium today. The wet pitch made it difficult for technical or quick players to stand out. For once, the players relying on physical strength gained the upper hand. They fielded: Rakham - Guillarte, Roulleau, Pedreiro - Kranjčar, Vidolin, Serdar, Bumba, Lad - Hadić, Ramírez.

Starters: Salmiņš - Carapaica, Jeftić - Xin Lee, Xin Seng, Mohammad Harun, Chuan Yong, Dong Chu - Mudaliar, Ze Han, Egan.

Éirinn go Brách trundled out to the pitch in a 3-5-2 formation. The visitors, Grilled Birds, chose to start the game with a 2-5-3 lineup. Grilled went for a narrow approach, using their divine (+6) (26) ability to focus their attacks down the middle. Grilled took the lead 12 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. Bernie Egan was the scorer. Grilled's Chu Xin Lee has the innate ability to create chances out of thin air. 14 minutes in he jumped up and tried a bicycle kick, knocking the ball straight past the keeper, resulting in the 0 - 2 goal. It was obvious that Grilled had instructions to attack in the middle when they directed a break on the wing into the center of the park. Bilal Mohammad Harun 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 Zaki Rakham just kept rising and landed in the relieved crowd. Éirinn were pushed back, and had many dangerous counter-attacks. An impressive one resulted in a free kick 20 minutes into the match, but Maxime Roulleau put it just wide. Oh dear, hide the children! 32 minutes into the match, Bassan Ramírez came down the left flank with a torch in one hand and a sword in the other. He's annihilated the defense and devastated the keeper! Goal for Éirinn, reducing the lead to 1 - 2. Grilled's Teo Chuan Yong received a ball slotted perfectly through the home side's central defense after 37 minutes, and chipped it past the helpless keeper to increase the lead to 1 - 3. The away fans won't regret traveling for this one! Given a free kick from a ways out after 38 minutes, Éirinn sent an arching ball into the penalty box. It was headed clear, but Marijan Kranjčar was waiting just outside the area and fired it home to make it 2 - 3. The teams went for the halftime break at 2 - 3. Grilled had the upper hand in possession, maintaining an impressive 52 percent possession of the ball.

With the clock showing 46 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board. Moey Xin Seng looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for Salah Kamel, though he would have liked to continue. 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. A thrilling play through the middle after 52 minutes gave Grilled's Chu Xin Lee a chance to increase the lead, and he happily obliged. The score was then 2 - 4. By working their way through the middle, Éirinn refused to be intimidated – their efforts finally led to Bassan Ramírez managing to slip the ball past the keeper to make the score 3 - 4. 70 minutes into the game, Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game. Mateja Jeftić gave Gilbert Webb a quick hug as he left the field. Mateja Jeftić was coming off, and had taken his last free kick for the day. That meant Gilbert Webb got the chance to showcase his dead ball skills. After 70 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Douglas Carapaica off. Sølve Lunde took his place. The fourth official announced that there would be 3 minutes of stoppage time, giving fans a slim hope that their team could get one more attack in before this was all over. Gilbert Webb was, after 90 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the center, but the home side's keeper Zaki Rakham made the save. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defense 91 minutes into the match, an alert Bassan Ramírez poked the ball past the keeper, bringing Éirinn level at 4 - 4. He's already scored two, and with the third, Bassan Ramírez has a hattrick! With 92 minutes gone, Grilled's organization began to suffer due to a lack of experience. The match ends 4 - 4. 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 Éirinn player was without a doubt Ilian Serdar. Even six year old fans were wincing at the poor play by Alexandre Pedreiro today. Grilled's best player was Chan Ze Han. You can tell it was nickel beer night yesterday at the local bar because Chu Xin Lee seemed to stumble all over the pitch.