Dark skies made the crowd at the stadium today a little nervous, but the rain held off. Starters: Zaya - Windler, Endersby - Frelek, Arcellone, Valdinoci, Geerts, Kuprianowicz - Shortall, Matkevičius, Polubinskis.

Lineup: Germanakos - Panigrahi, Hutter - Ferzan, Thach, Keng Chuan, An Keng, Baena - Ze Han, Xin Seng, Chitre.

The teams stopped and stared at each other - it was like they were looking in a mirror, since they both lined up in a 2-5-3 formation. Grilled clearly preferred using their world class (13) ability to attack in the middle today. Grilled's Chad Thach gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 2 minutes with a superb strike from the right. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defense 24 minutes into the match, an alert Timon Hannes Windler poked the ball past the keeper, bringing rimti level at 1 - 1. The visitors' central defense should have had no trouble clearing the pass to Damian Frelek, but the rimti player managed to shrug them off and fire a low shot that 5-holed the keeper to give his team the lead. 2 - 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, Lim An Keng somehow got his head on a Bhavya Panigrahi moonshot from the corner and buried it in the back of the net. What grace! What power! Plant the flag for Grilled, Neil Armstrong! The score is now 2 - 2. You can tell Bhavya Panigrahi practices his free kicks. 27 minutes into the match, he hit a perfect one and made the score 2 - 3. With 30 minutes played, rimti's Stephen Geerts received a yellow card for challenging a play with his cleats first. After 31 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defense allowed Aw Keng Chuan to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 2 - 4. When Stephen Geerts made yet another spikes-first tackle after 33 minutes, the referee was obliged to book the rimti player for the second time, which automatically ejected him from the game. With Stephen Geerts no longer on the field, Tomas Matkevičius stepped up to be the new set pieces taker. Zin Zaya became the new rimti captain. As quick as a flash, Fitzroy Shortall of rimti lost his man and passed the ball to the wide-open Damian Frelek who easily hit it home to make it 3 - 4. Some fine one-twos on the left led to a Grilled goal with 39 minutes gone, making it 3 - 5. Chad Thach was noted down as the scorer. Halftime score was 3 - 5. Now to our celebrity commentator for a hot take. Over to you, Snoop! 46 minutes into the match, the referee signaled for a Grilled substitution. Kalki Parvathaneni came on for Moey Xin Seng. With 55 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. After 70 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving Aw Keng Chuan off. Chia Kwang Tse took his place. Grilled's Chad Thach was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 75 minutes. Kalki Parvathaneni was, after 76 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 Zin Zaya made the save. After 77 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Chan Ze Han who increased Grilled's lead to 3 - 6. Grilled players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead. Grilled's Damian Hutter received a ball slotted perfectly through the home side's central defense after 80 minutes, and chipped it past the helpless keeper to increase the lead to 3 - 7. The away fans won't regret traveling for this one! The players were tired, but when the referee announced that there would be 5 minutes of added time, they welcomed the extra opportunity to make an impact. The match ends 3 - 7. Well, look at this! Cardi B is on the Enormotron in naught but giant sunglasses and a Take Me To Your Lizard tank top. I've not seen anything like it before. The most outstanding rimti player was without a doubt Antonio Arcellone. Good thing Damian Frelek 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. Even six year old fans were wincing at the poor play by Bhavya Panigrahi today.