User blog comment:B214/Volume 17 spoilers./@comment-23853100-20140220152640/@comment-16281343-20140221010212

~"Damaged half of his face" is way different from "only half of his face is left".

~Who said the fight would be decided "so easily"? It could be a long fight where both sides are barely able to move, that's why others were able to seal Grendel.