Ismail shines in 1-4 defeat

After the euphoria of last week’s crushing 9-0 win, ARFC was quickly brought down to earth after a 1-4 defeat against the formidable Redline. 

ARFC started with this line-up: 

Jersey no.	Name	Position
45	Commanding Ismail	Goalkeeper
31	Vintage Chua	Right-back
20	Composed Eng Lai	Sweeper
15	Towering Toh (captain)	Stopper
6	Unbeatable Darren	Left-back
16	Marauding Guoxiong	Right-mid
4	Dynamic Soon	Centre-mid
21	Rampaging Raymond	Centre-mid
11	Speedy Hee	Left-mid
2	Unpredictable Blackburn	Striker
9	ARFC Scoring Legend Haron	Striker
Subs:
10	Sublime Khim
66	Wonder Wayne
77	Dependable Jinzhong
78	Steely Tze Ern
Absent:
3	Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
5	Impeccable How Meng
7	Influential Sebastian
8	Talented Chun Haw
14	Combative Ron
17	Nippy Kenny
18	Determined Huiming
19	Skillful Weilit
28	Hard-man Tjioe
33	Talisman Derrick
99	Powerful Alvin

 

It was clear that the opponents were a class above ARFC who was not helped by the absence of several key and fast warriors. 

Courtesy of ARFC’s famed strong defence, ARFC managed to keep them at bay until 33^rd minutes when they conceded a goal. 0-1

ARFC nearly equalised after the super-impressive Tze Ern took aim wit a speculative shot from 37 metres. The ball almost trickled past their GK’s legs but he managed to retrieve on time. 

In the 2^nd half, the opponents scored 3 more goals to lead 4-0.

ARFC managed to salvage some pride thanks to Tze Ern who was an energy bunny the whole night. Chasing down a loose ball, Tze Ern whipped in a delicious-looking ball which saw Raymond ran in from the blind side and smashed the ball past their GK. 1-4 and this was Raymond’s 6^th ARFC goal which put him on level terms with Jinzhong.

Ismail then kept the score down with a string of great saves. On his current form, he is definitely better than Hassan Sunny.

Voting results:

Raymond – 11

Soon – 10

Darren – 7

Tze Ern – 7

Ismail – 4

Chua – 4

Toh – 2