Fairly good weather for football at the stadium today. The following players had been selected: Germanakos - Panigrahi, Keng Chuan - Baena, Mohammad Harun, Xin Seng, Chuan Yong, Thach - Ze Han, Velho, Mottl.

Starters: Garrigoza - Sturlini, Saliev, Prelazzi - Kapturski, Gonz�lez Macchi, Hasler, Disorna, Carstensen - Dimitrakopoulos, Petrule.

Grilled Birds started the game in a 2-5-3 formation, whereas Club Presidente Hayes lined up in a 3-5-2. Grilled clearly preferred using their utopian (19) ability to attack in the middle today. The visitors' central defense should have had no trouble clearing the pass to Chan Ze Han, but the Grilled player managed to shrug them off and fire a low shot that 5-holed the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! Hayes got a chance to level the scores in minute 10 as Matei Petrule suddenly found himself free with only the keeper to beat, but the finish hit the bar. The referee showed Grilled's Jos� Luiz Velho the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. After 17 minutes, the visitors evened the score after Benon Kapturski made it through the middle and struck home making it 1 - 1. Oh dear - the keeper's made a mess of that one. The crowd was very disappointed after he let Thiseas Dimitrakopoulos get the go-ahead goal with a speculative shot from the right after 21 minutes. 1 - 2. 1 - 2 was the halftime score. Grilled set the tempo, maintaining 51 percent of possession.

The home crowd was not impressed when Baabek Saliev came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 49 minutes. Hayes were now up 1 - 3. Given a free kick in a difficult position after 58 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. Jos� Luiz Velho challenged the visitors' central defense eagerly, producing a good chance 69 minutes into the game as he raced for a through ball. But, like so many times before, the guests' defensive positioning was just too good. After 70 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Aw Keng Chuan off. Gilbert Webb took his place. Some fine one-twos on the left led to a Hayes goal with 74 minutes gone, making it 1 - 4. Baabek Saliev was noted down as the scorer. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Grilled's Chad Thach got himself booked. Thiseas Dimitrakopoulos somehow managed to break free of his man on the left wing and only needed a relatively easy finish to bring Hayes's lead up to 1 - 5. 85 minutes into the match, the referee signaled for a Grilled substitution. Mohd Marzuki Khairul came on for Bilal Mohammad Harun. 85 minutes into the game, Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game. Prokop Mottl gave Lim An Keng a quick hug as he left the field. It was announced by the fourth official that he estimated stoppage time to be around 2 minutes. This meant there could still be an extra attack or two left in the match! After 90 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Benon Kapturski who increased Hayes's lead to 1 - 6. The match ends 1 - 6. Looks like Nate Silver was right again - his prediction that Hayes would have 52 percent possession in this half was spot on!

Grilled's best player was Chan Ze Han. Speaking of stinking up the place, Chad Thach sure smelled like the bottom of Batman's shoe after a night of crimefighting in Gotham. The most outstanding Hayes player was without a doubt Ranulfo Garrigoza. Good thing Sabio Sturlini isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance.