Full Recovery
While the unusually-low attendance of less than thirty thousand was a concern,
Chan Ze Han felt that those that stayed away had missed out on a good show. "This might not be the best Grilled team ever, but it has its attractions." the club icon said. "The new guys are developing at an incredible pace, and as we have again witnessed today, the older ones ain't half bad either."
Random Curiosity FC would have to work to maintain their position at the top of the table, but they would eventually manage a 2-1 away win over the Ang Mohs, with Manuel August slipping through to score the winner in the 74th. CE Sindiket 07 would be held 2-2 by Club Dinosauria in a finely-balanced match, and may take some comfort from their motivated fight from behind. Finally, Arcturules would rise to fourth after their Léon Dompeling-inspired 4-1 smackdown of Moeinsingapore, who must be dismayed at their start to the new campaign thus far.
Tian Yonghang could find little fault at his team's performance today, but warned that the road remained bumpy. "Benfleet are a good side, but let's just say that there will be many tougher challenges to come."
Farmer Bunnies stayed top of III.9 as they held Really McCoys off at Super Lakhsa-Lorong 12, on the back of a well-executed patient counterattacking game. Some have put this as maybe the breakout performance of 20 year-old wide man
Jerad Meyer, who set
Vitaliy Efendiev up for the opener on a plate in the 33rd minute, and then converting a magical
Richard Agyei pass by himself, with fifteen minutes to go.
Agyei certainly saw it that way. "Meyer's been getting faster and stronger week by week here. He must be one of our top four options on the wings already."
Hardi bin Besar would be the name going around Burung Memorial Stadium, as he did his level best to erase the stain of last Friday's 1-6 humiliation at Rohan. The Grilled International striker would torment Al Khanal's Anish Rana over the course of the game, to the extent that Rana looked almost relieved to have Vladimir Makogonov replace him. Hardi's haul would be two goals, with
Wang Hanxuan,
Safari bin Hj Jali and
Li Xin Chi also scoring in this 5-2 win.
Safari thought it an excellent result under the circumstances. "I think the margin doesn't do Al Khanal justice. Qassem Al-Nuaimi was firing on all cylinders today, and we were perhaps lucky that quite a few of the ambitious final balls that he tried, fell just short. Not to take anything away from ourselves either - we deserved it!"