Courtesy of two brilliant strikes from the deadly duo of Alvin and Haron, ARFC continued its 100% winning start to the D2D league with an easy 2-1 win over New Easteroids. It was an easy win because ARFC was denied time and again by their goalkeeper who kept out at least 4 or 5 certain goals.
ARFC’s victory was witnessed by Anna (Elvis’ wife), Cerine (Jinzhong’s potential wife) and Irene, the newly-minted wife of Alvin. As usual, Sebastian brought along his vuvuzela to support ARFC.
ARFC started with this all-star line-up:
Keeper: Dependable Jinzhong (captain)
Right-back: Hard-running Guoxiong
Sweeper: Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Stopper: Towering Toh
Left-back: Unpredictable Blackburn
Right-mid: Talisman Derrick
Centre-mid: Dynamic Soon
Centre-mid: Hard-man Tjioe
Left-mid: Nippy Kenny
Striker: ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Striker: Powerful Alvin
Subs:
Influential Sebastian
Combative Ron
Speedy Hee
Tze En
Wayne
ARFC wasted no time in dominating play with some clever passing, movement and support. The match was just 7 mins old when Tjioe reminded everyone of his box-to-box strength when he embarked on a 47-metres run from midfield all the way to face their keeper one-on-one. Unfortunately, his shot was deflected away for a corner.
Toh also came close with 2 headers that just flashed wide, while Blackburn and Kenny were having a field day at the left – Kenny was particularly dangerous with his incisive runs down the left flank.
In the 17th min, Guoxiong powered down the right flank and delivered a cross that bounced off the cross-bar. Haron followed up but to no avail.
After a couple of near-misses, ARFC finally opened the scoring 7 mins later. Elvis long high ball from his position was only partially headed backwards by their defender. Coming from behind and without breaking his stride, Alvin duly and expertly volleyed the ball home for his 127th ARFC goal. 1-0. Upon seeing the brilliant goal, Irene was spotted rounding round the field 7 rounds. Marco van Basten, who was watching from his stands, stood up in salute to Alvin’s goal.
ARFC doubled the lead just 7 mins later. Showing quick feet, Haron mesmerized the opponents by slaloming his way past their defenders and cooly slotted the ball home for his 162nd ARFC goal. Truly world-class dribble and goal that have Messi salivating. 2-0
Credit must be given to Jinzhong for saving ARFC on 2 occasions after some sloppy defending nearly gifted the opponents a goal or two.
In the 2nd half, ARFC could not extend its lead despite creating many chances. The most unlucky chance came in the 57th min after Haron tricked his way down the left bye-line. Squaring the ball across for the unmarked Soon, Soon’s shot was somehow kicked away by their keeper! Totally unlucky!
With virtually the last kick of the match, the opponents scored. 1-2
This was a match where ARFC could not capitalize on its dominance to create a bigger winning margin. However, a win is still priceless.
Special mention too on the good turn-out yet again. Hopefully, we can continue to have such good attendance for every match. Also, ARFC did not receive a single yellow card despite being provoked on a couple of occasions. This is very good.
Man-of-the-Match is jointly given to Jinzhong (for his saves) and Haron (for his intelligent movement and world-class goal).
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