Grilled Birds 4 - 1 Yaak & Boing Sponsor Gloop & Gleep
Tournament (Group Phase), Season 9027 January 2025 16:00 HTT
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SCORING SUMMARY
Grilled Birds
Yaak & Boing Sponsor Gloop & Gleep
Raúl Himadas (54)
Mohd Marzuki Khairul (72)
Aw Keng Chuan (79)
Hwang Teck Fu (84)
Juha Nivamo (10)

FIXTURE HISTORY
Season 76W7 - 1Tournament (Playoffs)

Boing Bounce
Leaving It Late

Drawn into Group A of the Dominion International Cup, Grilled Birds collected a 4-1 victory over former Welsh Cup winners Yaak & Boing Sponsor Gloop & Gleep, though it was hard going for the first half. With five Challenger Cups under their belt too, it was clear that Y&B knew how to win one-off games that mattered - which, evidently, this wasn't.
New Swiss signing Robert Kleinlauth made a start on the left side of central defence as the Welsh II.1 club trusted in a 4-4-2, ably marshalled by Pakistan national mainstay Shayan Kirmani in midfield. As with Claseek, Y&B had a vastly experienced but slowing team with an average age of some 35 years, a fact that could not be long hidden. Brian Reddy exposed their mobility issues as early as the fourth minute, and had he not taken an extra touch, he might well have rounded custodian Clemente Monteverde.

What the Welsh lacked in running they made up in canniness, though, and Raúl Himadas would soon come to regret his lazy pass square to Ha Qicai, that Finnish Number Nine Juha Nivamo picked off in mid-flight. Dimitris Germanakos had not returned to his usual spot after rolling it to Himadas in the first place, and could not make it back in time to prevent the easy finish.

The Birds would try to level it through Hwang Teck Fu as soon as possible, but he took the shot on too soon, for an easy save. Himadas tried his best to make up for his error, but his disguised pass from a 25th minute free-kick would be herded off, and a later 30th minute effort floated inches over the bar. In between, there was a dicey moment as Kirmani crossed over to the left side and whipped an opportunistic strike back at goal, but Germanakos took no chances with his meaty block then.

Grilled would thus wind up behind despite admittedly dominating much of the first half, and it would take Raúl Himadas to finally set things right, after 54 minutes. Y&B had been getting a little too comfortable with giving free-kicks away around their own box, but this particular one would be right up Himadas' alley, about five feet from the head of the box. The Spanish defender went for the same top left corner as he had before, and this time he got the dip right for 1-1.

They had learnt little enough in defence, though, and Y&B would nearly retake the lead three minutes hence, as the Birds defence stood off what would have been an easy clearance, for some reason. Germanakos' screams would alert his defenders too late, and he was lucky that António Marinho Pinto Lourenço was not a natural finisher, after he got the ball under control barely six yards out, with no-one even near.

Aw Keng Chuan would double down on providing leadership to the rest of the Grilled team from his central position, and it paid off handsomely as he unlocked Mohd Marzuki Khairul in the 72nd minute - though the final lob was all Marzuki's own. Chia Kwang Tse coming on for Gandhik Chitre gave the Birds another injection of energy, and Aw himself would charge upfield to blast a third goal in, soon after that substitution.

Grilled's formation was losing its coherence now, but happily for them, their opponents were unable to keep up anyway. With it now being open season on the Y&B goal, Hwang Teck Fu would find a gap in the 84th minute, and smash the ball past Monteverde with the help of a tiny deflection. Damian Hutter and Chan Ze Han came on in the 89th minute, but were yet to touch the ball when the referee called time.







      
     
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2016-08-01 00:37:41
anonymous: Thanks for the special mention :) I would just like to expre...
2015-08-17 18:50:02
anonymous: excellent read as always!- Yjorn
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2014-12-14 16:56:39
gilbertlim: well, it seemed like that.
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anonymous: I didn't play a 4-5-2
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