In a total-dominating 7 pm match at Tampines SAFRA, ARFC scored 7
goals in the second half to run out 7-1 victors.
Special special credit must be given to Ismail as he braved the
“hair-dryer treatment” from his wife to appear in today’s match as today’s was
Mother’s Day and MOST importantly, it’s his wife 18th birthday
too!! Kudos to Ismail as he also
managed to get his wife and son to support support
Melissa also turned out to support, further cementing her status
as ARFC’s Supporter of the Year.
ARFC started with this line-up:
Keeper - Commanding Ismail
Right-back - Marauding Guoxiong
Sweeper - Combative Ron
Stopper - Towering Toh
Left-back - Unbeatable Darren
Left-mid - Wonder Wayne
Centre-mid - Influential Sebastian (captain)
Centre-mid - Unpredictable Blackburn
Right-mid - Speedy Hee
Striker - ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Striker - Nippy Kenny
Subs:
Powerful Alvin
Talisman Derrick
Dependable Jinzhong
Absent:
Steely Tze Ern
Dynamic Soon
Sublime Khim
Impeccable How Meng
Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Hard-man Tjioe
Booming Boon
ARFC came out charging like a
Tokyo bullet train with Kenny closing the opponents non-stop. However, ARFC was
too hurried in its play and could not carve out decent chances.
Kenny then nearly caused the
match to be abandoned in the 17th min. From an indirect free-kick in
the box, Wayne pushed the ball and Kenny nearly broke the crossbar into 77
pieces when his thunderbolt smacked against the cross-bar and bounced out.
Thankfully, the frame of the goal held firm.
In the 2nd half,
ARFC finally took the lead in the 47th min courtesy of a flowing
move. From a free-kick won by ARFC in defence, Ron played the ball to Sebastian
who passed on to Guoxiong. Guoxiong spread the ball out wide to Derrick whose
cross found Alvin who thrashed the ball past their keeper for his 228th
ARFC goal. 1-0
ARFC then doubled its lead 77
seconds later. Derrick dribbled inwards but was blocked in the box. It could
have been a penalty but the sharp referee played the advantage as the ball
found its way to Alvin who was lurking at the left-hand side. Needing no second
invitation, Alvin simply swept the ball home for his 229th ARFC
goal. 2-0
77 seconds later, ARFC tripled
its lead. Sebastian found Derrick with a perfectly-weighted high ball down the
right wing. Derrick burst in and with their keeper coming out o narrow the
angle, Derrick continued his rich vein of scoring form by expertly dinking the
ball over him for his 84th ARFC goal. 3-0
With this goal, Derrick has
scored in the 7th successive match. However, he was immediately
replaced by Kenny.
Kenny made his presence felt
immediately. With a clever pass, Kenny found Alvin who laid on the ball for
Haron to casually stroke home his 206th ARFC goal. 4-0
Alvin then grabbed his
hat-trick in the 67th min. Sebastian powered right through their
defence and found himself surrounded by 2 defenders in the box. Kenny was free
on the right but hearing Alvin’s call from the left, Sebastian back-heeled ala V.
Sundram Moorthy for Alvin to come in from left and flash the ball into the net
for his 230th ARFC goal. 5-0.
This was Alvin’s 21st
ARFC hat-trick (resulted in 70 goals). This was also ARFC’s first hat-trick in
2014.
In between, Ron and Guoxiong
also produced stunning recovery blocks on each occasion to prevent them from
scoring.
Kenny finally got his reward in
the 77th min. Breaking their off-side trap, Kenny latched on to a
fantastic ball from Blackburn? to coolly dispatch the ball past their keeper
for his 37th ARFC goal. 6-0
Haron then put the icing on the
cake with the goal of the match, and possible goal of the season. Sebastian
started a break-away move from deep and spread the ball to Derrick on the
right. Derrick finally delivered a precise cross and Haron produced a
breath-taking world-class brilliant scissor-kick ala Fandi Ahmad to shock the
whole world, leaving their keeper rooted to the spot. Really world-class goal!
7-0 and this was Haron’s 207th ARFC goal.
ARFC then conceded a late goal
to emerge 7-1 winners.
Voting results:
Guoxiong – 9
Alvin – 8
Ron – 7
Sebastian – 6
Haron – 5
Derrick – 2
Hee – 2
Darren – 2
Jinzhong – 1
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