Tree Over Vultures
Both Grilled Birds and Farmer Bunnies would advance in the Sapphire Challenger Cup, with the Buns seeing off III.1 club Vulturii Singapore thanks to a pair of superlative second-half free-kicks from
Gabriel Priebe. Bulgarian custodian Dobri Tzaribashev had put nary a foot wrong for either, but such was their placement that no goalkeeper on Earth had a right to get to them.
"Yeah, they were perfect."
Koushan Khatibi, no mean set-piece specialist himself, remarked. "Couldn't have done better."
This has the Buns up against league rivals Featureship FC next, with Grilled Birds matched with II.3 team frunzelax.
Tian Yonghang thought it a very winnable fixture, after reviewing frunzelax's 2-0 win against Tampines Phoenix F.C. today. "They played well, but I would be very disappointed if we did not make it through."
It would be the end of the road for Grilled International, sadly, and it wasn't even close as they crashed out to Ukraine's Yggdrasil by five clear goals. The IV.10 challengers had former national star Tyhon Kovalchuk leading the line, and he found a hat-trick seemingly without trying too hard.
Snæbjörn Sigfússon was resigned to the defeat, but felt that the scoreline did not do
Phua Li Kong's efforts justice. "Phua tried so hard, but it simply wasn't enough." the Icelandic winger said. "Their Number Eight, Mark Yakovenko - he was simply too smart, too strong. We have to learn from this."