It had rained all day, but 57795 hardy fans still made it out to The Cooking Pot. Juan Antonio Torrellas was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Stefan Lyubenov and Mikael Rahmblad.Grilled had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation.The following players had been chosen: Tian Han - 福泉 (Fuquan) , Filippone - Ping Shun, Won, Meyer, Leong Kum, Aik Jia - Isufi, Lee Hao, 勇航 (Yonghang).
A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Blackburn.They fielded: Schallgruber-Horstmann - Rajki, Rustempašić, Amanpour - Kumble, Floricel, Rorris, Lyulin, Lim - Eugeni, Yáñez.
田. 勇航 (Yonghang) was uncomfortable with the soggy pitch as he couldn't move the ball around with his usual grace.Grilled's W. Ping Shun left the field after 10 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was H. Prabhu.As W. Ping Shun exited the field, A. Leong Kum volunteered to be the new set pieces taker.The home side put themselves ahead 1 - 0 after 14 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) , who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing.G. Filippone could have increased the lead after 31 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park.It was 1 - 0 at the break.Possession in this half belonged to Grilled, who controlled the ball 67 percent of the time.
With 54 minutes played, L. Aik Jia of Grilled fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving.Grilled's 田. 勇航 (Yonghang) had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 60 minutes having been played. M. bin Mohd Kassim was the replacement.As the captain was no longer on the pitch, M. bin Mohd Kassim took over the role of being the Grilled captain.Grilled's C. Meyer saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 61 minutes.J. Lim, who often relies on his speed, had a rotten day on the drenched grass.The home side's C. Meyer came close to extending the lead 78 minutes into the game. His shot came in from the right hand side but R. Schallgruber-Horstmann managed to save it with an unbelievable reaction stop.It was almost a goal for Grilled following C. Meyer's good header after a corner, it went just over the bar though.After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, C. Won got himself booked. The manager of Grilled was not happy.C. Meyer could have put Grilled up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 88 minutes.Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grilled, with 67 percent of the ball.
The most dominating Grilled player was without a doubt C. Meyer.H. Prabhu on the other hand, had a terrible day.H. Kumble performed admirably for Blackburn.J. Lim turned in a dismal performance, however.The match ends 1 - 0.
