T�del 4 - 3 Grilled
Fairly good weather for football at the stadium today. The following players took the field:
Buchmayer -
K���k,
Hundt,
Sturmann -
R�ddingsmarkt,
Holzkirchen,
Westheide,
Grundeis,
Kulenkamp -
Novak,
Kandlhofer.
Lineup:
Germanakos -
Panigrahi,
Hutter -
Ferzan,
Thach,
Keng Chuan,
An Keng,
Baena -
Ze Han,
Xin Seng,
Chitre.
FC T�del started the game in a 3-5-2 formation, whereas Grilled Birds lined up in a 2-5-3. Grilled went for a narrow approach, using their world class (13) ability to focus their attacks down the middle.
Moey Xin Seng will have Excedrin Headache number 5 after heading home the hard corner kick from
Bhavya Panigrahi after 6 minutes of play. I'm sure that making the score 0 - 1 will assuage him a bit, though. 9 minutes into the match,
Enrique Baena came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. T�del were great at switching from defense to attack, and after 10 minutes,
Hartmut Kandlhofer swept through the middle on a fantastic counter-attack, making the score 1 - 1. Grilled had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 20 minutes in when
Moey Xin Seng found himself alone with
Hubert Buchmayer who managed a block. At the 26 minute mark, it looked like the opportunity for Grilled to score had been missed when suddenly
Chad Thach worked his way clear and fired off a spectacular shot. The keeper had no chance! 1 - 2. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defense 29 minutes into the match, an alert
Antonius Kulenkamp poked the ball past the keeper, bringing T�del level at 2 - 2.
Moey Xin Seng came close to putting the visiting team one up 31 minutes into the match, following a solo raid down the middle, but
Hubert Buchmayer managed to tip the ball over. Grilled had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle instead. Grilled took the lead 34 minutes into the game, making the score 2 - 3 after some elegant movement down the middle.
Chan Ze Han was the scorer. 2 - 3 was the score after the first half. Grilled did a good job holding on to the ball, with 57 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.
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
Kalki Parvathaneni, though he would have liked to continue. 56 minutes into the match, the referee signaled for a T�del substitution.
Andreas Miesl came on for
Finn-Hendrik Novak. They weren't going to win with their current game plan, so the T�del coach told his players how to change things up 56 minutes in. T�del needed a fresh pair of legs on the field, and after 60 minutes
B�ke K���k made way for
Fabian Teutsch.
Lim An Keng was, after 69 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
Hubert Buchmayer made the save. As the 70 minute mark approached, the Grilled manager decided it was time for a substitution.
Aw Keng Chuan reluctantly made way for
Chia Kwang Tse. T�del's coach was furious with
Andreas Miesl after he picked up a yellow for saying one too many words to the ref. After 81 minutes of play,
Fabian Teutsch evened things up for T�del with an impressive goal coming up the middle. 3 - 3.
Mark Grundeis is making an astonishing dash. The fans are chanting his name. You can hear it reverberate around the stadium. Now a manic sprint up the middle and into the box. Oh! He's thrown open the door! He's thrown open the door, shot the ball through, and slammed the door shut on Mr. Tumnus! T�del has taken the lead 83 minutes into the match, 4 to 3. There'll be no Turkish Delight after the match for the keeper! After 85 minutes, T�del's lack of experience resulted in the team's loss of their edge at the end of the game. An equalizing goal was close at hand, but
Bhavya Panigrahi clipped a free kick just wide of the goal. After 86 minutes, the T�del coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving
Mark Hundt off.
Folke Schuon took his place. As
Mark Hundt left the field, the coach signaled to
Hartmut Kandlhofer to start taking the set pieces that occurred. 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! The match ends 4 - 3. Let's go to the Twittersphere to see what the fans think of the game so far! says The most outstanding T�del player was without a doubt
Hartmut Kandlhofer. Speaking of stinking up the place,
Klaus R�ddingsmarkt sure smelled like the bottom of Batman's shoe after a night of crimefighting in Gotham. Most important Grilled player was
Chan Ze Han. Good thing
Bhavya Panigrahi isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance.