Demon-possessed Hee powered ARFC to thumping 12-0 win

Playing like a demon possessed, captain of the day Hee scored ARFC’s fastest goal in its history and a total of 5 goals to propel ARFC to a thumping 12-0 victory against Eng Lai’s team at the poor Bedok South SS pitch. The emphatic victory was witnessed by Anna (Elvis’ wife) and Cerine (Jinzhong’s potential wife).

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper: Dependable Jinzhong
Right-back: Hard-running Guoxiong
Sweeper: Astute-reading Elvis
Stopper: Towering Toh
Left-back: Unbeatable Darren
Right-mid: Talisman Derrick
Centre-mid: Dynamic Soon
Centre-mid: Hard-man Tjioe
Left-mid: Unpredictable Blackburn
Striker: Speedy Hee (captain)
Striker: Powerful Alvin

Subs:

Influential Sebastian
Combative Ron

The match was just only 11 seconds (no pun intended to Hee’s jersey number) when Hee scored after he swept the ball home from Alvin’s left-wing cross. It was the fastest goal in ARFC’s history and some fans missed the historic feat as they were just streaking into the match venue. 1-0 and it was Hee’s 74th ARFC goal.

About a min later, Derrick’s right wing cross was expertly chested down by Alvin’s bulging chest. Without breaking his stride, he placed the ball away from their keeper for his 118th ARFC goal. 2-0

ARFC went 3-0 up when Hee eluded their defender with a clever turn and dinked the ball over to the far post and the ball nestled nicely at the bottom right corner for his 75th ARFC goal. 3-0

In the 17th min, their defender clumsily handled in the box and Elvis stepped down to create yet another piece of record by scoring his 4th successive penalty in 4th successive match, though the keeper got a touch to his kick but could not prevent Elvis from scoring his 11th ARFC goal. 4-0

At this juncture, Ron and Sebastian replaced Toh and Soon respectively.

Alvin scored his 2nd in the match when Derrick’s right-wing cross found him and Alvin notched his 119th ARFC goal. 5-0

In the 37th min, Hee, who was clearly inspired by the captaincy, wiggled his way down the right bye-lien and squared the ball across. The waiting Sebastian gleefully half-volleyed the ball past their keeper for his 73rd ARFC goal. 6-0

In the 2nd half, Toh replaced Elvis to give the latter a well-deserved rest.

The half was just 2 mins old when Toh’s superb high long ball saw Alvin at the left side of the penalty box. Alvin touched the ball up into the 6-yard area and Hee again demonstrated his world-renowned speed by sprinting into the box and out-jumped their keeper and headed the ball past him for his hat-trick and 76th ARFC goal. 7-0

ARFC went 8 goals up when Derrick was upended in the penalty box. Derrick dusted himself up and scored his 25th ARFC goal, though like Elvis before, their keeper got a touch to Derrick’s kick but was unable to keep out the shot. 8-0

Guoxiong then sent in a great direct ball to Hee from his right-back position and with a quick swivel, Hee’s shot, though not so well-struck, went in through the keeper’s legs for his 77th ARFC goal. 9-0 now.

Sebastian then attempted a one-two with Alvin but the latter’s return ball was over-hit. No matter, as the ball found its way to Hee who shot past their keeper for his 5th goal in the match. 10-0 and it was Hee’s 78th ARFC goal.

Sebastian’s “no-look” through pass saw Tjioe breaking down the right flank. Moving the ball inwards, Tjioe thundered the ball past the keeper for his 55th ARFC goal. The goal, however, came with a price as Tjioe aggravated his already-weak right knee and had to be replaced by Soon. 11-0

The icing on the cake came from Blackburn who scored the goal of the match. He juggled the ball in the air past at least 5 or 6 defenders before lifting the ball past their keeper for his 87th ARFC goal. The ball must have stayed in the air for at least 7 seconds and it was really like a Pele goal. 12-0

This was clearly an one-sided match and almost every ARFC could have scored (except Jinzhong). Toh was really unlucky with 2 or 3 wonderful opportunities, Soon came close twice, Ron once, and both Guoxiong and Darren produced several wonderful over-lapping runs down the flanks. It was also good that ARFC kept a clean sheet. Also, credit must be accorded to the good attendance.

But the Man-of-the-Match clearly belongs to Hee who wanted the ball all the time and was very incisive with his runs. This must be the best match from him in an ARC jersey.