In a 1 pm match at Pasir Ris SS, ARFC overcame 777 degrees celcius
temperature to beat The Maestros 5-1
Not surprisingly, no supporters turned up to watch ARFC due to the
weather.
ARFC started with this line-up:
Keeper - Talisman Derrick
Right-back - Dependable Jinzhong
Sweeper - Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Stopper - Towering Toh (captain)
Left-back - Unpredictable Blackburn
Left-mid - Speedy Hee
Centre-mid - Combative Ron
Centre-mid - Dynamic Soon
Right-mid - Marauding Guoxiong
Striker - Powerful Alvin
Striker - ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Subs:
Precocious Chun Haw
Influential Sebastian (late)
Skillful Weilit (late)
Steely Tze Ern (late)
Absent:
Wonder Wayne
Nippy Kenny
Resolute Jasper
Composed Jackson
Unbeatable Darren
Impeccable How Meng
Hard-man Tjioe
Sublime Khim
Booming Boon
Jiawei
ARFC struggled in the opening
exchanges but quickly settled down.
ARFC took the lead in the 7th
min after wonderful work by Haron and Hee. First, their keeper made a hasty
clearance after a superb closing down by Haron. The cleared ball was picked up
by Hee who immediately pierced right into their heart of defence with a
penetrative run. Hee then squared the ball to the unmarked Alvin on the right.
Alvin then showed immerse composure to dispatch the ball into the bottom
right-corner of their keeper who simply had no chance at all. 1-0 and this was
Alvin’s 225th ARFC goal.
ARFC doubled its lead 7 mins
later. Blackburn pinged a long ball down the left flank to Alvin who beat their
right-back and crossed a low ball in. The ball looked to have reached Haron at
the far post until Soon came from don’t know where to steer the ball home just
right at the middle of the 6-yard box. 2-0 and this was Soon’s 56th
ARFC goal and also his 3 successive goal in as many matches.
ARFC then went to sleep and
conceded a goal. 2-1
Due to the searing heat, Chun
Haw, Sebastian and Tze Ern then came on for Ron, Soon and Haron respectively.
Within mins, Chun Haw combined
with Alvin but like last week, Chun Haw hurried his shot and skied the ball.
Chun Haw, however, made amends,
just 77 seconds later. His long diagonal high ball from the left ala Steven Gerrard
saw their left-back miscued a back-pass to their keeper. In the meantime,
Guoxiong continued his run and before their keeper could make a recovery save,
Guoxiong just managed to nick the ball ahead by a mere 0.777 mm and scored his
20th ARFC goal. 3-1
Weilit then came on for Hee who
was really a menace to the opponents.
ARFC then won a corner taken by
Blackburn on the left. His corner was hit with much force and high velocity and
both Toh and Jinzhong charged in like 2 Russian tanks ala John Terry and Sami
Hyypia. Toh met the ball ahead of
Jinzhong and scored with a world-class bullet header, knocking down everybody that
was in his way. 4-1 and this was Toh’s 70th ARFC goal, eclipsing
previous ARFC scoring great Robin’s 69 goals.
In the 2nd half,
ARFC did not let up and continued creating chances. From a well-orchestrated
move which Derrick and Chun Haw were alerted 77 seconds earlier due to an
opponent’s substitution, Sebastian exchanged wall-pass with Chun Haw at the
middle. Sebastian then chipped in a ball down the right flank for Derrick to
run in from the blind-side. With their keeper out to close down Derrick, Derrick
appeared to be in 2 minds and his tentative chip across goal was not met by any
warriors. Unlucky!
Sebastian’s freekick from the
left was arrowed right into the most dangerous zone in the centre of the 6-yard
box. Toh did not connect cleanly and Haron just managed to scoop the ball 0.77
mm over the bar. Unlucky.
ARFC then scored the goal of
the match. Intercepting a ball, Toh charged upfield and passed to Haron who was
standing at the top of the penalty box. Toh continued his bull-run and Haron’s
neat and sublime back-heel fooled their defence. Toh ran in from deep, faced
their keeper alone and duly thrashed the ball into the net for his 71st
ARFC goal.
The referee then gifted an
extremely soft penalty to the opponents after he adjudged Ron’s extremely clean
tackle to be a foul. The tackle was so clean and precise that even their
striker did not shout for a penalty. Justice was served, however, when Jinzhong
saved their poorly-struck penalty. Superb Jinzhong.
These are the voting results:
Toh – 12
Alvin – 9
Soon – 7
Ron – 4
Hee – 4
Guoxiong – 3
Haron – 3
Sebastian – 1
Weilit – 1
Tze Ern – 1
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