Grilled 4 - 2 Eixample
Weather conditions were pretty good for football today. They fielded:
Germanakos -
Keng Chuan,
Hutter -
Ferzan,
Thach,
Kwang Tse,
An Keng,
Khairul -
Chitre,
Ze Han,
Reece.
Lineup:
Korzeniowski -
Van Damme,
Palló,
Rabatin -
Drs,
Pinhão,
Schwaiger,
Tió,
Juřena -
Nayan,
Neves.
Grilled Birds fielded a 2-5-3 lineup. For L'Eixample BCN, the formation of choice was a 3-5-2. Grilled saw most attack opportunities on the wings by using their titanic (15) ability to push the attack in the right direction. Eixample were mostly trying to use their titanic (15) skill at attacking on the flanks. It was obvious that Grilled had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. Grilled made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left
Lim An Keng completely alone with keeper
Arkadiusz Korzeniowski, who made a spectacular block. Eixample's
Marcelo Neves managed to lose the defenders as he burst through the right side and scored, putting the visitors ahead, 0 - 1. Players in Grilled heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. Due to some great work on the right wing Grilled's
Gandhik Chitre was able to even the score 18 minutes in to 1 - 1. After 23 minutes cheers broke out as
Lim An Keng found his way through the guests' central defensive line, rattling the 2 - 1 goal in off the woodwork for Grilled.
Mohd Marzuki Khairul managed to make an excellent pass from the wing, but
Lim An Keng was not as skillful and couldn't finish it off. 2 - 1 was the halftime score. Grilled did a good job holding on to the ball, with 63 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.
The score became 3 - 1 with 50 minutes played, when Grilled were given a penalty.
Chan Ze Han made no mistake and increased the home lead. After 60 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving
Mohd Marzuki Khairul off.
Federico Parada took his place. 60 minutes into the game, Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game.
Gandhik Chitre gave
Orest Tokarz a quick hug as he left the field. The visitors' right side was dangerous today;
Marcelo Neves made the home team's keeper look foolish as he easily scored, reducing the gap to 3 - 2 after 64 minutes. The home side's
Chan Ze Han came close to extending the lead after 81 minutes. His shot came in from the right but
Arkadiusz Korzeniowski managed to push it wide with his fingertips. The visitors' equalizer seemed inevitable after 82 minutes, following a one on one situation around the left hand side of the goal area, but
Dimitris Germanakos got the best of it, blocking the shot from
Marcelo Neves. As the 85 minute mark approached, the Grilled manager decided it was time for a substitution.
Joe Reece reluctantly made way for
Ibnou Balde. Attacking on the wings was the theme of the day for Eixample, and they were successfully passing the ball outside from the middle.
Marcelo Neves made a run for the goal 85 minutes into the game but the home team's left side was too well defended and the attack fizzled out.
Chia Kwang Tse gave Grilled supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 4 - 2 after 86 minutes, following a good exchange of passes on the right that the away team failed to deal with. The fourth official announced that there would be 2 minutes of stoppage time, giving fans a slim hope that their team could get one more attack in before this was all over. The match ends 4 - 2. Now to our celebrity commentator for a hot take. Over to you, Snoop! 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
Damian Hutter seemed to stumble all over the pitch. Eixample's best player was
Marcelo Neves. Speaking of stinking up the place,
Milan Juřena sure smelled like the bottom of Batman's shoe after a night of crimefighting in Gotham.