Sheep Happens Indeed
Bilal Mohammad Harun bemoaned that he had not encountered Twenty2 FC in happier circumstances. "We had heard quite a bit about them, but never got to meet them in cup or other competition before this. It's a pity, they seemed to have a good system going on, in their earlier seasons."
The win sees Grilled Birds set up against Bukit Gombak in the next round, with the Farmer Bunnies also progressing in the Ruby Challenger Cup, if with rather less certainty. Venerable Clementi outfit richlyeng rangers went toe-to-toe in this derby, and the Buns would have to live on the edge against the youthful vitality of Agustín Desmadryl, especially after spurning two golden counterattacking opportunities early on.
It took all of fifty-seven minutes before the Buns got their decisive free-kick position, and in the ensuing mad rush to
Vitaliy Efendiev's floated delivery,
Djoko Tambusai would manage to stick it in after an initial block by Milenko Urošević. This was not the most beautiful of goals, surely, but it would certainly do for the Buns here.
This would also be another clean sheet for
Gilberto Sorondo, coming after Monday's 4-0 win over Swiss Division Five challengers KICK IT LIKE SENSEI, in the King of Football Cup. Former national U-20 defender
Lim Su Liang was absolutely on fire then, as he took SENSEI for a hat-trick from central defence, by the 69th minute.
Sunil Patel added another late on, after a good attempt at a consolation by Israeli midfielder Ayman Abou El Wafa from a corner.
As for Grilled International, they somehow let a three-goal lead slip against HI IV.41 club Sheep happens, who knocked them out of the Hattrick International Cup after 120 minutes, by a 6-5 scoreline. This would grate particularly hard on
Sazwan bin Hj Muhd Salleh, who found two quite brilliant goals, only for Ivan Vergés to then emerge the hero for the day with a similar fear.
This match might also have seen the end of Klaudio Sirotković's playing career, with the Croatian defender and captain having to depart after a brutal tackle on his left foot by
Tibor Atzenhain. That would earn much sympathy from the International fans, all the more from how the flow of the game was going then, but this would be replaced by an only-too-familiar glumness as extra time drew to a close.
