International Champions
This was a disappointing day out for
Tian Yonghang, who could not help but acknowledge Adem Boğ's lethality. "There are days when you face a striker who can't miss, and sad to say, it happened to us." the former Grilled star forward sighed. "When that happens, not much anyone can do but to take the loss and move on."
30 year-old Greek goalkeeper
Dimitris Germanakos may be out for the rest of the season, after the club doctor put him under observation for a suspected concussion. "The cut was superficial, but we don't like how his head moved in the replay." Ian Chuang explained. "Safety comes before anything else for us at this football club."
Not that it will matter much, as Arrogancae got one hand of the trophy in slamming Tampines Phoenix F.C. 8-0, which sees them stay five points ahead of newbies are newbies, with two rounds to go. newbies had Chen Meng Heng score twice as The Sing Tigers lost Jordan Oh early on, and then Georgian legend Shio Kervalidze to a potentially career-ending knee injury in a 0-4 defeat. Joker 9 and Glory Paradiso stopped each other in a very-watchable 4-4 draw, in the last fixture.
Farmer Bunnies kept up the chase as they forced a slender home win against Really McCoys, with
Dušan Václavík scoring the only goal of the match by convincingly beating Fabio Uccello with a dropped shoulder in the 59th minute. That had
Koushan Khatibi and
Mauro Fau enter to protect the lead, and so they did as Gordon Brodalka ran himself into the ground trying to get McCoys back level.
FC Jurong Rovers took over from kaloons at the top thanks to an entirely-unexpected 6-0 thrashing, that saw English midfielder Spencer Bryan sent off after recording a stylish brace. Mangrove Pittas beat FC Phondle 2-0 to replace them in fifth, as Livernuts flattened Pasir Ris Warriors 3-0 with Tu Jingming bagging two, in a clash of the doomed.
Over in Hamburg, Grilled International were finally crowned champions of V.56 at the sixth attempt, with their bruising 6-0 thrashing of Baboon Show St. Pauli put them beyond reach of second-placed Esther Football Club.
Hardi bin Besar reprised his hard man credentials with two goals and a yellow card, that in the 13th minute for putting Ralf Schiedewitz out with a solid barge that was stronger than absolutely necessary.
"It's good to be back." an unrepentant Hardi smiled.
Esther did try their best in beating SFK Ajaks by the same margin, but this left them still eight points adrift. They should be heavy favourites to boss next season, if that is any consolation, as neither Ponyhof nor Elefanten der Wüste looked their match, despite defeating AC Rabissale 2-0 and Dentinhos Int. 3-1 respectively.
