Tze Ern's world-class goal in 3-2 victory

On the back of the thumping 10-0 win last weekend, ARFC warriors played with spring in their steps to win 3-2 against Tebing FC at St Wilfrids.

Special mention to Ron for volunteering to be GK.

ARFC started with this line-up:

Keeper – Combative Ron

Right-back – Ah Chua (guest player)

Sweeper – Eng Lai (guest player)

Stopper - Towering Toh

Left-back - Unbeatable Darren

Left mid – Unpredictable Blackburn

Right mid – Marauding Guoxiong

Centre-mid - Nippy Kenny

Centre-mid – Hard-man Tjioe

Striker – Vanilla Ice (guest player)

Striker – Powerful Alvin 

Subs:

 

Steely Tze Ern (late)

Astute-reading sweeper Elvis (late)

Skilful Weilit (late)

Dominic (Eng Lai’s son)

Absent:

Talented Chun Haw

Dynamic Soon

Dependable Jinzhong

Influential Sebastian

Speedy Hee

Commanding Ismail

ARFC Scoring Legend Haron

Impeccable How Meng

Wonder Wayne

Talisman Derrick

Sublime Khim

ARFC drew first blood in the 7^th min. Kenny’s long ball from the middle led to Ice bearing down on their GK. Their GK reached the ball first and cleared the ball away to just outside the penalty area. Guoxiong, who is back to his best, shouted for the loose ball and duly rocketed in a volley that gave their GK no chance at all.  Superb goal!! 1-0 and this was Guoxiong’s 23^rd ARFC goal, moving him level with ex-ARFC legend David. 

The opponents then equalized in the 20^th min with ARFC suffering another bad refereeing decision as their winger was miles offside. 1-1 

In the 27^th min, Darren played the ball out of the danger area to Weilit. Fresh from his one-week BMT, Weilit showed enormous upper body strength to shrug off the pulling and tugging of the opponents before threading a low ball down the left for Alvin.  In his trademark move, Alvin powered away from his marker, moved into the box and unleashed a powerful grounder.  Though their GK got his hands to the ball, the shot was too powerful that the ball went loose. Following up, Alvin simply cracked another powerful shot into the net for his 264^th ARFC goal. 2-1 

In the 50^th min, Toh’s powerful header bounced off the cross-bar. Dominic reacted quickest but his shot also hit the upright. Unlucky! 

In the 57^th min, ARFC extended the lead with a world-class goal from Tze Ern.   Off yet another ARFC attack, the opponents cleared the ball outside the box only to find the on-form Tze Ern lurking there. Before the ball hit the ground, Tze Ern let fly a first-time volley that saw the ball hit the top right hand corner, giving their exasperated GK no chance at all! 3-1 and this was Tze Ern’s 11^th ARFC goal and 2^nd successive goal in 2 matches. 

Tze Ern’s goal also meant that he is now the proud holder of ARFC’s 1800^th goal in its illustrious history.  

The opponents then pulled a goal back. 3-2 

In the 77^th min, off a Guoxiong through ball down the right, Alvin raced clear and tried to chip their GK. However, the ball hit the left cross-bar despite their GK clearly beaten. Unlucky!  

Voting results:

Tjioe – 7

Guoxiong – 6

Tze Ern – 6

Kenny – 5

Alvin – 5

Weilit – 2

Darren – 1

Elvis – 1