King Kenny inspired ARFC's victory

Welcoming Tjioe back for the first time since our brand-new sponsored jerseys from Cosy Living Pte Ltd, ARFC was slightly below par but still managed to run out comfortable 8-2 winners over Alpha FC.

ARFC was supported by Melissa (Hee’s beau), Su, Afiqah and Ariq (Haron’s family)

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper - Commanding Ismail

Right-back - Dependable Jinzhong

Sweeper - Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

Stopper - Towering Toh

Left-back - Unbeatable Darren

Left-mid - Speedy Hee

Centre-mid - Marauding Guoxiong

Centre-mid - Dynamic Soon

Right-mid - Talisman Derrick

Striker - Powerful Alvin

Striker - ARFC Scoring Legend Haron (captain)

Subs:

Influential Sebastian

Unpredictable Blackburn

Wonder Wayne

Steely Tze Ern  

Nippy Kenny

Impeccable How Meng

Hard-man Tjioe

Absent:

Combative Ron

Sublime Khim

Booming Boon

ARFC took the lead in the 7^th min when Alvin floated in a corner from the left. Haron ghosted in from the blind side to stab the ball in for his 205^th ARFC goal. 1-0

After scoring, Haron immediately dashed across the field to hug his 2 lovely children and tossed his even lovelier wife into the air.

ARFC then conceded a goal. 1-1

ARFC took just 77 seconds to regain the lead after Haron, despite falling down, played in Kenny. Kenny, who just came on for the tiring Hee, simply stroked the ball home for his 34^th ARFC goal. 2-1

How Meng then sent an exquisite diagonal cross-field ball ala Steven Gerrard for Tze Ern on the right wing. Breaking clear, Tze Ern squared across for Derrick to tap in his 82^nd ARFC goal. 3-1

With this goal, Derrick has now scored in 5 successive match!

Kenny then chased down their sweeper and successfully blocked his clearance. Galloping away, Kenny thumped in his 35^th ARFC goal. 4-1

Kenny then turned provider when he pierced through their defence and Tze Ern came in from deep to place the ball past their despairing keeper for his 8^th ARFC goal. 5-1

In the 2^nd half, ARFC did not let up and continued pressing for goal. Sebastian chipped in a long over-head ball that Guoxiong pursued like a hungry wolf. Guoxiong edged ahead of their defender and produced a sliding left-foot grounder to prod the ball past their keeper. 6-1 and this was Guoxiong’s 21^st ARFC goal.

From a corner on the right, ARFC got its 7^th goal in the match. For the countless time, a tried and proven corner routine reaped dividends. Sebastian’s hanging precise corner was met by who else but Toh who nodded the ball powerfully into the top right-hand corner for his 74^th ARFC goal.  7-1

Hee then put the icing on the cake when he showed his remarkable closing down on first their defender and then their keeper. Their keeper clearance was blocked by Hee which saw the ball looped over their unfortunate keeper. 8-1 and this was Hee’s 95^th ARFC goal.

ARFC then conceded another goal. 8-2.

In the last 10 mins or so, ARFC could have scored a few more. Virtually camping near or in the penalty box, ARFC toyed the opponents around with intricate passing from right to left, and left to right. However, ARFC did not chalk up further goals.

These are the voting results:

Kenny – 10

Tze Ern – 8

Guoxiong – 8

Soon – 7

Toh – 4

Wayne – 4

Derrick – 3

Hee – 2

Darren – 2

Sebastian – 1

Haron – 1

Elvis – 1