Chun Haw's monster display key to ARFC's victory

Kicking off at 1 pm friendly match at the Anderson secondary school artificial pitch, ARFC made it 3 wins out of its last 3 matches by overcoming the stubborn challenge of Marsiling Bro 4-2 due largely to an inspiring performance from Chun Haw.

ARFC’s dominating victory was witnessed by Melissa (Hee’s super-beautiful muse) and Winnie (Chun Haw’s super-cute girlfriend).  

Booming Boon also turned up to watch for 17 mins before rushing off to ink a $27.77 million Sentosa Cove deal.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper - Impeccable How Meng

Right-back - Resolute Jasper

Sweeper - Unpredictable Blackburn (captain)

Stopper - Towering Toh

Left-back - Unbeatable Darren

Left-mid - Speedy Hee

Centre-mid - Talented Chun Haw

Centre-mid - Influential Sebastian 

Right-mid - Talisman Derrick

Striker - Nippy Kenny

Striker - Powerful Alvin

  

Subs:

Wonder Wayne

Skillful Weilit

Dynamic Soon

Dependable Jinzhong

Steely Tze Ern

Absent:

Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Composed Jackson

Combative Ron

Marauding Guoxiong  

Sublime Khim

Hard-man Tjioe

Booming Boon

Jiawei

The match was even-stevens in the first 10 mins.

ARFC drew first blood after a relentless and breathless closing down of opponenst by Derrick, Alvin, Hee and Kenny resulted in their defender mis-hitting a back-pass that totally eluded their keeper and rolled nicely into the net. 1-0 and this was the 32^nd own-goal conceded by ARFC’s opponents.

The opponents then equalised after the poor referee failed to spot a clear off-side. 1-1

ARFC then created a few chances but was unable to make the break-through. Particularly, Sebastian’s and Alvin’s corners were menacing but still resulted in no goal.

In this first half, Chun Haw played like a monster and gobbled up ALL the high balls all over the pitch. Superb player!

How Meng also came up with 2 to 3 clean catches from their long shots. Wonderful keeper!

ARFC regained its lead just 7 mins into the 2^nd half. Darren’s long-throw from the left caused panic and confusion in their box. Soon came in from blind side from the right and looked to score but his first-touch was poor. Thankfully, the ball fell kindly to Chun Haw who was standing just outside the 6-yard box. Continuing his blazing form, Chun Haw swiveled sharply and lashed the ball high into the roof of the net for his 22^nd ARFC goal. 2-1

Chun Haw celebrated his goal by running towards Winnie and shouted “I Love You Deep Deep!!”

However, the opponents equalised again. 2-2

ARFC then threatened with so many precise corners from Sebastian but Toh, Wayne and Alvin just failed to get clean connections.

From yet another Sebastian’s laser-like corner, Derrick headed against the cross-bar. Unlucky!

ARFC finally took the lead again. From a half-cleared corner, Soon won the ball and spread the ball out to Sebastian who was lurking on the right wing. Looking up, Sebastian arrowed in a high ball that sailed over their keeper to the left side. Alvin read the ball perfectly and he came flying in with a world-class diving header to propel the ball into the net for his 210^th ARFC goal. 3-2 and the goal looked like a typical EPL goal.

ARFC then put the result to bed after a series of sweet ball passes from Hee and Alvin. From the middle of the pitch, Hee passed to Alvin who then returned the ball. Hee then passed to Alvin again who again returned the ball. Hee then broke into the left flank and swept in a low ball across goal. Kenny showed wonderful composure by placing the ball low and hard past their bewildered keeper. 4-2 and this was Kenny’s 24^th ARFC goal, moving him up on level terms with ex-ARFC warrior Tong.

These are the voting results:

Chun Haw – 25 pts;

Hee – 16 pts;

Alvin – 12 pts;

Darren – 11 pts;

Sebastian & How Meng – 10 pts each;

Derrick – 6 pts;

Kenny – 2 pts;

Soon, Jinzhong, Toh & Jasper – 1 pt each.

Congratulations to Chun Haw and Hee for winning $10 and $5 respectively.