ARFC crumbled in last 7 mins

Resuming its league programme, ARFC fell apart in the last 7 mins and lost 0-2 to a very young and determined Macheda under extremely hot weather at Bedok Green SS.


ARFC received a late blow when Elvis and Brendan pulled out. Thankfully, ARFC was boosted by the last-min appearance of Khim, Darren, Norman, Hee and Seh Meng.

ARFC started with this 4-5-1 line-up:

Keeper: Seh Meng (guest player)
Right-back: Marauding Guoxiong
Sweeper: Towering Toh
Stopper: Wonder Wayne
Left-back: Unbeatable Darren
Right-mid: Yao Yang (guest player)
Centre-mid: Influential Sebastian
Centre-mid: Steely Tze Ern
Centre-mid: Combative Ron
Left-mid: Sublime Khim
Striker: Unpredictable Blackburn (captain)

Subs:

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron (late)
Speedy Hee
Long-throw specialist Norman
Talisman Derrick (turned up with less than 10 mins to go – credit to him for rushing down)

Absent:

Powerful Alvin (but turned up right at the end of match after his work - credit to him)
Dynamic Soon
Hard-man Tjioe
Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Dependable Jinzhong
Precocious En Dian
Nippy Kenny

It was clear from the start that the very hot weather would favour the younger opponents and it showed throughout with ARFC creating very few chances.

In the entire 1st half, the opponents took many shots but all were thwarted by the superb Seh Meng. The defence also stood out with Wayne particularly impressive. Ron also impressed.

In the 27th min, ARFC almost opened the scoring after some good work by Blackburn and Khim. However, Norman failed to connect to the ball and the chance goes abegging.

Tze Ern’s header also flew narrowly wide.

The 2nd half was the same story as ARFC failed to conjure up good chances for the forwards.

A great chance came ARFC’s way in the 57th min. Khim’s corner was flicked on by Hee to the unmarked Toh who was standing just outside the 6-yard box. However, Toh’s weak header was easily gathered by their keeper. In hindsight, Toh could have used his legs but he was unaware of the amount of time and space afforded to him.

Derrick then came on and immediately he was put through but he shot into the side-netting.

ARFC then conceded 2 goals in the last 7 mins to lose 0-2.

Man-of-the-Match goes to Wayne.

Credit to the good attendance too.