ARFC suffered heaviest defeat since formation

ARFC suffered its heaviest defeat since its formation in Jun 1991 after going down 0-8 to Team BI at Tanjong Katong SS.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper: Dependable Jinzhong
Right-back: Unpredictable Blackburn
Sweeper: Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Stopper: Towering Toh
Left-back: Unbeatable Darren
Right-mid: Steely Tze Ern
Centre-mid: Combative Ron
Centre-mid: Influential Sebastian
Left-mid: Nippy Kenny
Striker: ARFC Scoring Legend Haron (captain)
Striker: Yoong

Subs:

Dynamic Soon
Long-throw Specialist Norman
Talisman Derrick
En Dian
Hardman Tjioe

ARFC actually was the better team in the opening 15-20 mins but after Ron suffered a serious right ankle injury from a heavy tackle, ARFC simply fell apart.

ARFC suffered yet another blow when the impressive En Dian, who came on for Haron, also departed after suffering a left knee injury.

Half-time score was 0-3.

ARFC conceded another 5 goals to go down 0-8.

Kenny almost pulled a goal back from a free-kick in the dying mins but his powerful shot was parried by their keeper and Derrick was unable to capitalize on the rebound.

Besides the injuries to both Ron and En Dian, other warriors like Toh, Elvis, Tze Ern and Sebastian also had heavy knocks and remained doubtful for the coming match.

For this match, our ARFC forwards did very well but unfortunately, our midfielders and defenders, except Darren, simply had a bad day.

Ironically enough, there is nothing to fault on attendance this time round as the attendance of 16 was fantastic. But things just did not go the way of ARFC and to their credit, Team BI was really a class apart for this league. I think they should be playing in a higher standard league rather than D2D League. It is no good that they have been winning leagues for the past few seasons and stayed unbeaten throughout.

Man-of-the-Match is jointly given to Yoong, Kenny and Darren.