Playing at an unearthly kick-off time at 9pm, ARFC ended its 3-mach
winless streak with a comprehensive 5-3 victory over Westminister.
ARFC was supported by Derrick who turned up with beer as he is working
his way back to full fitness. Derrick also went to fetch Chun Haw and Weilit
from their homes. What a wonderful and dedicated commitment to ARFC!
ARFC was hit by the 11th-hour withdrawal of Ismail due to work. Thankfully, Chun Haw and Wayne
agreed to stand in as GK for each half respectively.
Keeper - Talented Chun Haw
Right-back - Unbeatable Darren
Sweeper - Combative Ron
Stopper - Towering Toh
Left-back - Wonder Wayne
Left mid - Speedy Hee
Right mid - Unpredictable Blackburn
Centre-mid - Hard-man Tjioe
Centre-mid - Influential Sebastian (captain)
Striker - Nippy Kenny
Striker - Powerful Alvin
Subs:
Dynamic Soon (slightly late)
Skilful Weilit
Guohui (guest player)
Absent:
ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
Commanding Ismail
Steely Tze Ern
Impeccable How Meng
Talisman Derrick
Marauding Guoxiong
Dependable Jinzhong
Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
Sublime Khim
ARFC went ahead within 5 mins. Kenny robbed their sweeper, broke clear
and bore down on their goal. Spotting Alvin running in from the left, Kenny
unselfishly paid the ball to Alvin who duly placed the ball with his outside
right foot for his 254th ARFC goal. 1-0
Kenny, who had an inspiring match, turned provider yet again for Alvin.
Wayne’s glided pass saw Kenny running down the left wing. Kenny again spotted
Alvin’s run from the right and produced an inviting ball across goal and Alvin
needed no second invitation to crash in his 255th ARFC goal. 2-0
Wayne then put the result to bed with his first goal for ARFC in 2015.
From Blackburn’s corner on the right, Alvin put in a shot that was blocked on
the line. Wayne reacted quickest and smashed home a jumping shot. 3-0 and this
was Wayne’s 13th ARFC goal, moving him on level terms with Elvis.
Wayne then conjured a stunning sliding block to deny a clean shot from
the opponent.
From the left, Weilit passed to Sebastian who was at the middle and
continued his run. Sebastian’s slide-rule pass pierced right through their
defence but Weilit inexplicably shot over with just the keeper to beat.
ARFC then conceded a goal from the corner. 3-1
In the 2nd half, ARFC continued its dominance in the match.
Sebastian passed to Alvin on the left centre area and peeling away to
the right. Alvin read his move perfectly and chipped the ball into the box,
right in front of Sebastian. Sebastian took a touch, volleyed in but the ball
was blocked for a corner.
From the corner, Toh, who recovered from his seemingly drunken stupor
(caused by Derrick’s inviting beer) but put up a better performance, capped his
display by ghosting in and thumping home an emphatic header from Sebastian’s
laser-like corner from the right. 4-1 and this was Toh’s 82nd ARFC
goal.
Alvin then grabbed his 24th career hat-trick for ARFC. Soon
won the ball on the right and passed to Toh who had stayed up from a corner.
Toh then cut in the ball to his left and passed to the lurking Alvin who simply
just beat their keeper for his 256th ARFC goal. 5-1
Sebastian then found Kenny with yet again a Jamie Redknapp-like grounder
and Kenny drew their keeper out before squaring the ball to his left.
Chun Haw converted but was controversially ruled off-side. Unlucky!
Guohui then found Weilit unmarked on the left but Weilit‘s placed
grounder was pushed out by their keeper.
Darren, who once again did not let a fly pass through him, created a
golden chance for Soon who unfortunately lifted his shot onto the bar!
The opponents then pulled 2 goals back to lose 5-3.
Voting results:
Kenny – 11
Alvin – 8
Toh – 4
Wayne – 3
Sebastian – 3
Chun Haw – 3
Ron – 2
Darren – 1
Tjioe – 1
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