Playing at the Floating Platform
for the very first time, ARFC missed a slew of chances to draw 0-0 with JNWA.
ARFC was supported by family
members as follows:
· Suhana
· Afiqah
· Ariq
· Caren
· Kaizaree Jade-Eden
· Olivia
· Olivia’s mother
· Reyes
· Sharon
· Weiyu
· Weiyou
· Melissa
Derrick also turned up in his
clutches. Super committed!
ARFC started with this line-up:
Keeper - Commanding Ismail
Right-back - Marauding Guoxiong
Sweeper - Towering Toh
Stopper - Impeccable How Meng
Left-back - Unbeatable Darren
Left-mid - Speedy Hee
Centre-mid - Dynamic Soon
Centre-mid - Influential Sebastian (captain)
Right-mid - Nippy Kenny
Striker - ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Striker - Powerful Alvin
Subs:
Hard-man Tjioe
Unpredictable Blackburn
Skilful Weilit
Talented Chun Haw
Wonder Wayne
Steely Tze Ern
Eng Lai (guest player)
Supporter:
Talisman Derrick
Absent:
Combative Ron
Dependable Jinzhong
Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Sublime Khim
ARFC fired the first salvo but
Sebastian’s free-kick was way too central.
Soon then won the ball and spread
to Kenny down the right, and continued his run from midfield. Despite both
Haron and Alvin calling for the ball, Kenny play an intelligent cut-back for
Soon ala Paul Scholes who fired over.
Hee then harassed the ball off
their right-back. Alvin moved in menacingly into the box and squared for Haron
who was free. Unfortunately, Haron dragged his left-foot shot wide.
From Sebastian’s high hanging
corner, the ball sailed over their keeper but Toh somehow headed wide.
Kenny’s superb right-wing cross
eluded every one at the far post but Alvin could only smack his header against
the cross-bar.
At the 22nd-min mark,
ARFC made a slew of changes as follows:
Keeper - Commanding Ismail
Right-back - Marauding Guoxiong
Sweeper - Eng Lai (guest player)
Stopper - Towering Toh (captain)
Left-back - Unbeatable Darren
Left-mid - Skilful Weilit
Centre-mid - Talented Chun Haw
Centre-mid - Hard-man Tjioe
Right-mid - Steely Tze Ern
Striker - Unpredictable Blackburn
Striker - Wonder Wayne
Subs:
Influential Sebastian
ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Speedy Hee
Dynamic Soon
Impeccable How Meng
Powerful Alvin
Nippy Kenny
Wayne teed up Weilit who could
only shot wide.
Chun Haw then chipped in a high
through ball which saw Tze Ern dashing in from his own half. Their keeper
charged out and hit his clearance against Tze Ern. The ball went out though.
Ismail then took a hit at his
head after charging bravely. Thankfully, he was fine though Derrick was
preparing to take over his place…..
In the 2nd half,
Guoxiong requested to take a rest as he was feeling a bit under the weather.
ARFC lined up in this:
Keeper - Commanding Ismail
Right-back - Steely Tze Ern
Sweeper - Impeccable How Meng
Stopper - Towering Toh
Left-back - Unbeatable Darren
Left-mid - Speedy Hee
Centre-mid - Talented Chun Haw
Centre-mid - Influential Sebastian (captain)
Right-mid - Dynamic Soon
Striker - Nippy Kenny
Striker - Powerful Alvin
Subs:
Wonder Wayne
Unpredictable Blackburn
Skilful Weilit
Hard-man Tjioe
Eng Lai (guest player)
Marauding Guoxiong
ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Soon took a nock at his knee and
was replaced by Tjioe.
ARFC was then indebted to Tze Erm
who cleared the ball off the line.
Tjioe then exchanged wall-passes
with Kenny, took a fierce shot but the ball bounced off the left-hand post.
Kenny was next to try but his
long shot was off the target.
ARFC then earned a penalty after
their sweeper handled the ball when Alvin was trying to go round him. Sebastian stood up but his diagonal waist-height
spot-kick was palmed away. A rare penalty miss from Sebastian!
At the 67th min mark,
ARFC made these changes:
Keeper - Commanding Ismail
Right-back - Eng Lai (guest player)
Sweeper - Towering Toh (captain)
Stopper - Wonder Wayne
Left-back - Unbeatable Darren
Left-mid - Skilful Weilit
Centre-mid - Dynamic Soon
Centre-mid - Hard-man Tjioe
Right-mid - Steely Tze Ern
Striker - Unpredictable Blackburn
Striker - ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Subs:
Talented Chun Haw
Marauding Guoxiong
Influential Sebastian
Speedy Hee
Impeccable How Meng
Powerful Alvin
Nippy Kenny
Ismail then produced a great
save.
ARFC was in the ascendency now
and could have snatched a winner right at the death. From relentless pressure,
Toh laid a perfect grounder for Sebastian who was just inside the box. When all
were already shouting “goal”, Sebastian’s side-footed placing was too near
their keeper who kept the ball out! Lousy finishing.
The last time ARFC was involved
in a goalless draw was way back on 31 May 2009 at Sengkang SS when we played
against Renaissance.
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