ARFC rounds off 2013 with comprehensive victory

Playing its last match in 2013, ARFC demolished its opponents 5-2 at Tampines SAFRA pitch.

The match was witnessed by:

Boon

Guoxiong and his lovely girls - Tracie and Clara

Jasper and his lovely girl - YY

Jackson

Melissa – Hee’s lovely girl

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper - Impeccable How Meng

Right-back - Dependable Jinzhong

Sweeper - Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

Stopper - Towering Toh

Left-back - Unbeatable Darren

Left-mid - Speedy Hee

Centre-mid - Combative Ron  

Centre-mid - Influential Sebastian

Right-mid - Dick (guest player)

Striker - Powerful Alvin (captain)

Striker - ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Subs:

Wonder Wayne   

Skillful Weilit

Unpredictable Blackburn (late)

Precocious Chun Haw (late)

Absent:

Nippy Kenny

Steely Tze Ern  

Resolute Jasper

Composed Jackson

Talisman Derrick

Dynamic Soon 

Marauding Guoxiong  

Hard-man Tjioe

Sublime Khim

Booming Boon

Jiawei

ARFC wasted no time in getting a strong foothold in the match by pressing the opponents early on.

It is from such closing down that ARFC grabbed the opening goal. Dick chased down a back-pass to their keeper and in his panic, their keeper tried to clear but only succeeded in kicking the ball straight into Dick. With a gaping goal Dick duly scored. 1-0

ARFC doubled its lead 7 mins later. Sebastian spotted Haron opening up by making a side-way run. However, Sebastian’s slide-rule pass was diverted by their defender away from Haron’s trajectory. Thankfully, the ball found another beneficiary in the form of Alvin who duly pushed the ball goalwards.

Alvin looked to have over-hit the ball and their keeper could have simply picked up the ball. To our amazement, their keeper stayed rooted as he was frightened by Alvin’s bulging muscles which were akin to rugby legend Lomu running at you at 777 km/hr. The grateful Alvin needed no second invitation to place the ball past him for his 219^th ARFC goal. 2-0

ARFC’s incessant pressing soon reaped dividends again. Their keeper received a back-pass from their defender and stopped the ball. From the midfield position, Sebastian embarked on a direct run to close their keeper down. In his panic again, their keeper hoofed the ball away but only managed to clear to Alvin who was just outside the penalty box. With a wide open net, Alvin chipped the ball home for his 220^th ARFC goal. 3-0

The opponents then pulled a goal back. 3-1

Wayne, Chun Haw, Weilit then replaced Alvin, Haron and Dick respectively. 77 seconds later, Blackburn took over Sebastian.

Blackburn then turned creator when his supreme pass found Chun Haw down the right. Chun Haw took a great first touch to set himself up for the kill, and then nonchalantly dinked the ball over their keeper for his 28^th ARFC goal. 4-1 and this goal pulled him on level position with Kenny.

In the 2^nd half, the opponents pinned ARFC in its half for about 10 mins. The opponents then scored a goal while ARFC was making some substitutions. 4-2

ARFC woke up from its brief slumber and Alvin immediately restored ARFC’s 3-goal cushion. From Wayne’s deep cross, the opponents failed to conjure a clean clearance. From a loose ball, Alvin expertly dispatched the ball home with his outside right foot for his 221^st ARFC goal. 5-2

With this hat-trick, Alvin has now scored 20 hat-tricks for ARFC, chalking up 167 goals in the process.

There is no voting for this match but my personal Man-of-the-Match jointly goes to Jinzhong, Chun Haw and Alvin.