Playing its 2nd night
match in a row at the Meridien Junior College pitch, ARFC chalked up its 2nd
win in 2016 after a hard-fought but controlled 3-1 victory over Wayne’s
friends.
ARFC welcomed Alvin back
from his paternity leave hiatus.
ARFC started with this 4-4-2
line-up:
|
Jersey no.
|
Name
|
Position
|
|
45
|
Commanding Ismail
|
Goalkeeper
|
|
20
|
Composed Eng Lai
|
Right-back
|
|
66
|
Wonder Wayne
|
Sweeper
|
|
15
|
Towering Toh
|
Stopper
|
|
6
|
Unbeatable Darren
|
Left-back
|
|
11
|
Speedy Hee
|
Right-mid
|
|
7
|
Influential Sebastian (captain)
|
Centre-mid
|
|
8
|
Talented Chun Haw
|
Centre-mid
|
|
2
|
Unpredictable Blackburn
|
Left-mid
|
|
17
|
Nippy Kenny
|
Striker
|
|
99
|
Powerful Alvin
|
Striker
|
|
Subs:
|
||
|
78
|
Steely Tze Ern
|
|
|
xx
|
Yilong
|
|
|
xx
|
Kenji
|
|
|
xx
|
Javier
|
|
|
Absent:
|
||
|
3
|
Astute-reading sweeper
Elvis
|
|
|
4
|
Dynamic Soon
|
|
|
5
|
Impeccable How Meng
|
|
|
9
|
ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
|
|
|
10
|
Sublime Khim
|
|
|
14
|
Combative Ron
|
|
|
16
|
Marauding Guoxiong
|
|
|
18
|
Determined Huiming
|
|
|
19
|
Skillful Weilit
|
|
|
21
|
Rampaging Raymond
|
|
|
28
|
Hard-man Tjioe
|
|
|
31
|
Vintage Chua
|
|
|
33
|
Talisman Derrick
|
|
|
77
|
Dependable Jinzhong
|
|
The
opponents did very well and controlled the match for the opening 10 minutes as
ARFC could not get its game going. Thankfully, ARFC’s defence held firm.
Ismail
then produced a top-draw save to palm the ball over.
The
opponents then struck the cross-bar and from the rebound, Ismail clawed the
ball away.
Yilong,
the power futsal player who was lauded by ex-EPL player during last year’s Tiger
Cup, then came on to devastating effect.
From
Sebastian’s corner, Toh rose and could only managed to glance the ball towards
their GK.
From a
free-kick from Sebastian, Toh met the ball emphatically but could not get past
their GK.
Chun
Haw then tried his luck on 3 occasions from distance but all were severely
off-target.
ARFC
finally took the lead from a quick break-away down the left. The ball was passed
to Yilong who dribbled inwards and from the top of the penalty box, curled the
ball past their stranded GK. World-class goal. 1-0 and this was his debut goal
for ARFC.
In the
2nd half, ARFC then conceded a goal. 1-1
ARFC
then wasted more chances.
Toh
then then found himself free in the box when Sebastian’s free-kick found his
head again. Alas, Toh could not get a clean connection to the ball.
In
defence, Darren and Tze Ern worked tirelessly to deny their fast wingers.
Eng Lai
then came up with a superb interception to deny them a goal-scoring chance.
ARFC
doubled its lead after an inspired move from Kenny. Receiving the ball from the
right, he drifted inwards with a quick burst of speed, slalomed his way into the
box and crashed his powerful shot against the cross-bar from just near the 6-yard
box. Luckily, he reacted quickest to the rebound by nodding the ball home for
his 67th ARFC goal.
ARFC
then put the result beyond doubt with a world-class movement. Yilong, Kenny,
Javier and Sebastian made some dummy and passing moves which saw the ball being spread to
Kenji on the left byeline. Showing world-class anticipation ala Ian Rush,
Sebastian instantly took up position at the far post and true to call, Kenji
swept the ball across goal and Sebastian was there at the perfect time to rifle
the ball into the roof of the net. 3-1 and this was Sebastian’s 101st
ARFC goal.
With
this goal, Sebastian capped off his medical-enforced break for the next 2 months on
doctor’s advice. Otherwise, his health would be at stake.
ARFC
held on to triumph 3-1.
My
personal Man-of-the-Match goes to Tze Ern who had a stellar match, especially
at right-back.
Voting
results:
Darren –
10
Wayne –
9
Tze Ern
– 5
Chun
Haw – 5
Kenny –
4
Blackburn
– 2
Toh – 1
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