Grilled 0 - 5 Recre
Dark skies made the crowd at the stadium today a little nervous, but the rain held off. The following players took the field:
Germanakos -
Himadas,
其材 (Qicai) -
Reddy,
Thach,
Keng Chuan,
Teck Fu,
Trindade -
Kwang Tse,
An Keng,
Khairul.
The following players had been selected:
Dedo -
Likos,
Atasoy,
Loi -
Busqué,
雄昌 (Xiongchang),
González Zorrilla,
Nakov,
Bonaccorso -
Jinaru,
Cazos.
Grilled Birds fielded a 2-5-3 lineup. For Recre Onuba, the formation of choice was a 3-5-2. Grilled used their divine (+7) (27) ability to concentrate their attacks in the middle of the field. Everyone knows
Derya Atasoy is the man to mark on corner kicks, and 2 minutes in he got free of his marker and sent a ball towards goal, which was barely saved by the keeper. The guests took the lead 16 minutes into the match, after a right-side attack resulted in
Paolino Bonaccorso scoring to make it 0 - 1. Grilled put pressure on the visitors' central defense with 19 minutes played, but
Chia Kwang Tse couldn't find an opening. Grilled were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up coming through the center. Grilled tried to even things up by sending a long ball through the middle, but the visitors' defense easily read the pass. The referee showed Grilled's
Mohd Marzuki Khairul the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. With 34 minutes played,
Joan Busqué 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. Grilled's
Chia Kwang Tse was shown a yellow card after 36 minutes for slicing down an opponent.
37 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 2 as
Alfredo Cazos finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular bicycle kick. 0 - 2 was the score after the first half. Recre did a good job holding on to the ball, with 52 percent of possession. We'll be back after these interminable commercial messages.
After 59 minutes, Recre sent a free kick in high over the penalty box. In what looked like a well-rehearsed move, the ball was headed backwards and reached
Alfredo Cazos, who had plenty of time to shoot and score - 0 - 3. Showing that he’s been around the block once or twice,
Andrei Jinaru scored to make it 0 - 4 for Recre after putting some pressure on the enemy defense at a critical moment. Grilled players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead. The home side worked hard to get through the middle and as a result, had a good chance of getting one back as
Brian 'Was Born' Reddy tried lifting the ball over keeper
Waro Dedo. Unfortunately, the ball went just over the bar. 70 minutes into the game, Recre worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. 89 minutes into the game, Grilled wanted to bring some new energy to their game.
Aw Keng Chuan gave
Damian Hutter a quick hug as he left the field. The referee decided to let play continue for an additional 2 beyond the regular 90 minutes. After 90 minutes, Recre's
Alfredo Cazos burst through the central defense and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 5. That was his third goal of the match - a hattrick for
Alfredo Cazos! That's the name of the game! The match ends 0 - 5. Looks like our neighborhood Nostradamus was right again - his prediction that Recre would have 54 percent possession in this half was spot on!
Grilled's best player was
Lim An Keng. Speaking of stinking up the place,
Dimitris Germanakos sure smelled like the bottom of Batman's shoe after a night of crimefighting in Gotham. Recre's top performer was clearly
Cirilo González Zorrilla. Good thing
Joan Busqué isn't a horse, because he'd surely be sent to the glue factory after that performance.