Epic 5-5 draw

Playing with just 11 warriors under the hot unforgiving sun, ARFC drew 5-5 with Roma FC at Yio Chu Kang SS.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper - Commanding Ismail

Right-back - Steely Tze Ern

Sweeper - Combative Ron  

Stopper - Towering Toh

Left-back - Unbeatable Darren 

Left-mid - Sublime Khim  

Centre-mid - Unpredictable Blackburn

Centre-mid - Dynamic Soon

Right-mid - Nippy Kenny

Striker - Powerful Alvin (captain)

Striker - Wonder Wayne  

Subs:

Nil

Absent:

Skilful Weilit

Impeccable How Meng

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Marauding Guoxiong

Speedy Hee

Astute-reading sweeper Elvis

Dependable Jinzhong

Talisman Derrick

Influential Sebastian

Hard-man Tjioe

ARFC completed dominated the first 10 mins and therefore it was a huge surprise that ARFC fell 0-2 behind.

In the 25^th min, their defender handled the ball and Blackburn, as usual, brushed aside all other warriors to stroke the ball past their keeper for his 145^th ARFC goal. 1-2

Kenny then showcased his shooting prowess when he let fly from 37 metres that their keeper could not palm the ball away to the waiting Alvin.  Atoning for his many misses last week, Alvin discovered his scoring boots to slam the ball home with his outside right foot. 2-2 and this was Alvin’s 249^th ARFC goal.

In the 2^nd half, the opponents took the lead again. 2-3

ARFC did not give up. After Wayne was hacked down just outside the box, the opponents continued their argument with the referee. Alvin leveraged his experience when he quickly placed the ball down and simply shot into the empty net for his 250^th ARFC goal. 3-3

In the 60^th min, Khim lofted the ball over their defence and Kenny came in from right and dispatched an absolute belter to almost tear the net apart. 4-3 and this was Kenny’s 50^th ARFC goal.

ARFC looked to have wrapped up the match in the 65^th min. Soon, who ran till he suffered rare cramps, received the ball from Blackburn on the right.  Soon returned the ball and from just outside the box, Blackburn placed the ball nicely beyond the despairing dive of their keeper for his 146^th ARFC goal. 5-3.

In between, Wayne inexplicably conjured to miss 5 one-on-one scoring chances!

ARFC then paid the price when it conceded 2 late goals due to fatigue to draw 5-5.

Voting results:

Khim – 7

Ron – 6

Alvin – 5

Kenny – 4

Darren – 3

Tze Ern – 2

Soon – 2

Toh – 1

Blackburn – 1

Ismail – 1

Wayne – 1