The Dude Show
The win contributed to the Singaporean II.2 getting their first points against Haiti's II.3, as newbies are newbies weathered Haïti Futebol Clube's maniac rush midway through the second half, to take their match 2-1. Joker 9 fared worse against Blaití FC in losing 1-5 after Chan Jian Jian gave them brief respite with his glorious 35th minute breakthrough equalizer, but it didn't matter by then.
It is seldom that a 0-2 defeat could be said to be a fine outcome, but Farmer Bunnies' to current Austrian Bundesliga leaders Dude Linz had the air of that about it. It was easy to see how this Dude team were going for their fifth national league title from how practised their attacking patterns were, and that the Buns managed to eke out several minor chances on the counter - mostly via
Amaya Ravula and
Koushan Khatibi - had to be accounted more than could be expected.
Former American international sweeper
Gabriel Priebe said as much, while crediting goalkeeper
Gilberto Sorondo for keeping the scoreline down, with more than a few top-class saves. "If it were not for him, it could have gotten very ugly. Khatibi was mint too, recall how he stopped Takashi Majima in the first half?"
With frunzelite falling to EL HEFE by the same margin, it was left to Featureship FC to salvage some local pride, and this they did by holding six-time Bundesliga champions Torpedo Wien Amateure to a two-all draw. They might have gotten more too, had Janusz Sabat not gotten himself dismissed due to instigating a scuffle towards the finish.
