Wayne nets winner in great team goal

Shrugging off the disappointment of last Sunday’s loss to Unido FC, ARFC picked itself up by playing out an exhilarating 4-3 victory in a friendly match.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper             -           How Meng

Right-back       -           Marauding Guoxiong

Sweeper           -           Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

Stopper                        -           Towering Toh (captain)

Left-back         -           Unbeatable Darren

Left-mid          -           Speedy Hee

Centre-mid       -           Steely Tze Ern

Centre-mid       -           Dynamic Soon

Right-mid         -           Weilit

Striker              -           Wonder Wayne

Striker              -           Unpredictable Blackburn

 Subs:

Powerful Alvin (late)

Jasper

Brenden Casanova (guest player)

Absent:

Combative Ron

Hard-man Tjioe

Talisman Derrick

Sublime Khim  

Dependable Jinzhong

Influential Sebastian

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Mean-machine Hock

Talented Chun Haw

Long-throw specialist Norman

Precocious En Dian

Nippy Kenny

Special mention to Tze Ern as this was his 2^nd match in as many days.

ARFC conceded first but leveled the score courtesy of an own goal by the opponents. 1-1 and this was the 28^th own goal conceded by ARFC’s opponents.

In the 47^th min, Guoxiong made up for his red card last week by bombing down the right flank ala Dani Alves. His cross was controlled expertly by Alvin and with such a great first touch, Alvin’s second touch saw him thumped the ball home for his 183^rd ARFC goal. 2-1

7 mins later, Guoxiong again underlined his great form in recent weeks with yet another blinding run down the right and laid the ball to Soon. Without hesitation, Soon hit a scorching long-range shot from 47.77 metres that gave their keeper no chance at all! 3-1 and this was Soon’s 44^th ARFC goal.

Brenden Casanova then replaced Elvis.

ARFC then relaxed and conceded a goal. 2-3

ARFC then conceded another goal 3-3.

From the re-start, however, ARFC immediately pulled ahead. Blackburn played a wall pass with Wayne TWICE in succession and the ball soon reached just outside the penalty area. Wayne then exchanged passes with Alvin who returned the ball to Wayne just near the 6-yard box. Naturally, Wayne thrashed the ball into the net for his 7^th ARFC goal. 4-3 and what a wonderful team goal!

With his 7^th goal, Wayne is now levelled with En Dian and Chun Haw in the ARFC scorers’ list.

Man-of-the-Match is jointly given to Soon and Guoxiong.