Soon reached land-mark 50th ARFC goal in 6-2 win

After taking a one-week break due to last week’s cancelled match because of heavy down-pour, ARFC did not allow the enforced break to disrupt its winning momentum after chalking up an easy 6-2 victory against FPUB at the Anderson secondary school artificial pitch.

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

Credit goes to Toh for turning up despite announcing earlier that he could not make it. How Meng also played despite nursing a fever.

ARFC also welcomed back Elvis after his 2-week trial with Nguyen Viet Cong FC in Vietnam. However, he turned down their offer of 7000 dongs per month as he still prefers to play for ARFC.

The opponents only had 8 players as their 5 other players were late and hence Jasper, Weilit and Jackson were loaned to them for the first 20 minutes.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper - Impeccable How Meng

Right-back - Dependable Jinzhong

Sweeper - Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

Stopper - Towering Toh

Left-back - Unpredictable Blackburn

Left-mid - Speedy Hee

Centre-mid - Talented Chun Haw (captain)

Centre-mid - Dynamic Soon

Right-mid - Talisman Derrick

Striker - ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Striker - Powerful Alvin

  

Subs:

Combative Ron

Wonder Wayne

Influential Sebastian

Resolute Jasper

Composed Jackson

Skillful Weilit

Absent:

Steely Tze Ern

Nippy Kenny

Unbeatable Darren

Marauding Guoxiong  

Sublime Khim

Hard-man Tjioe

Booming Boon

Jiawei

It was clear from the start that ARFC would emerge victors in the match as the opponents, though some of them were very skillful, lacked the match experience. Furthermore, our midfielders and strikers harassed them no end with Chun Haw at the heart of things.

ARFC created several chances in the opening 10 mins but were unable to fashion an opening.

ARFC then had Jinzhong to thank after he made a superb last-min tackle to nick the ball away after their striker appeared ready to pull the trigger just outside the 6-yard box. Wonderful defending.

ARFC finally opened the scoring and what a goal it was. Jinzhong won a header at right-back position and the ball landed at the feet of Derrick at right-mid. Derrick chipped in a high dangling ball and Alvin, who acquired superb fitness recently, leapt and headed the ball back across goal just outside the penalty box. Haron read Alvin’s move really well and without breaking his stride, executed a jumping volley with his outside right-foot to put the ball beyond the diving keeper for his 197^th ARFC goal.    1-0

The goal was also very similar to Fandi Ahmad’s 1990 goal against Johor when he was playing for Federal Territory (former name for Kuala Lumpur FC).

Sebastian, Ron and Wayne then came on for Soon, Blackburn and Haron respectively.

ARFC soon doubled its lead. Alvin wriggled and powered his way down the left flank and swept the ball across goal. Toh and their keeper both went for the ball and the ball then spilled out. Their defender then inexplicably kicked at his own keeper and in a flash, Derrick dashed in from the blind-side on the right and rifled the ball high into the roof for his 68^th ARFC goal. 2-0

In the second half, ARFC then conceded a goal. 2-1

ARFC then restored its 2-goal cushion with a bizarre goal from Hee. Hee won the ball after yet another of his trade-mark harassment and played the ball down the right channel to Derrick. Hee continued his run into the 6-yard area and met Derrick’s cross with his stomach and wrong-footed their keeper! 3-1 and this was Hee’s 93^rd ARFC goal.

Score with header is heading, score with back-heel is back-heeling, score with stomach is stomaching? Obviously the opponents could not stomach, pun intended, this type of goal and became demoralized.

Within 77 seconds, Haron notched his second goal in the match. Again, Alvin was the chief architect after he repeated his act of wriggling and powering down the left flank. Alvin cut the ball down to his right foot and whipped the ball into the 6-yard danger zone. Haron appeared to have not connected the ball cleanly but somehow the ball still trickled slowly into the bottom right corner of the goal for his 198^th ARFC goal. 4-1

ARFC put the result beyond reasonable doubt after Jinzhong’s superb free-kick from the right was chested down by the bulging chest of Alvin. The ball dropped nicely in front of him and after seeing that their keeper had hesitated, Alvin nonchalantly lobbed the ball over his head for his 211^th ARFC goal. 5-1

ARFC then conceded another goal. 5-2

ARFC was not done. Chun Haw’s mazy dribble caused mayhem outside the opponents’ penalty box and with the opponents still in a daze, Soon propped up and swung a curling right-foot shot to leave their stranded to the spot. 6-2 and this was Soon’s 50^th ARFC goal.

Voting results:

Haron – 21 pts;

Alvin & Derrick – 16 pts each;

Chun Haw – 12 pts;

Elvis – 7 pts;

How Meng & Jinzhong – 6 pts each;

Soon, Ron & Sebastian – 5 pts each;

Toh – 3 pts;

Congratulations to Haron for winning $10, and Alvin and Derrick for sharing the $5.