Ismail's heroics preserved ARFC's 2-1 triumph

After a high of last week’s thrilling 6-5 win, ARFC put itself into yet another narrow victory courtesy of Ismail’s last-minute penalty save to win 2-1 against Winning Boy FC.

ARFC started with this line-up: 

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

Straight from the kick-off, Kenny unleashed a long-range lob which sailed over their GK’s flailing arms but the ball struck the cross-bar. Unlucky!

Bouyed by last week’s 6-5 win, ARFC played with a swagger and totally dominating play. Alas, the goal did not materialise. 

Last week’s hat-trick Chun Haw then came on and almost opened the scoring but his dipping shot struck the out-stretched arms of their GK. Unlucky!

With their first shot of the match, the opponents scored. Amazing but that’s how cruel football can be. 

Continuing his goal-scoring feat, Chun Haw then confidently converted a penalty for his 44^th ARFC goal. 1-1

In the 77^th min, Yilong showed why he was voted the Best Player in the Tiger Cup 2015 when he let fly from almost 40 metres that zipped past their bewildered GK. 2-1 and this was Yilong’s 2^nd ARFC goal. 

In the 87^th min, the opponents then earned a fortuitous penalty after the ball accidentally hit Chun Haw’s hands. Justice was done, however, when Ismail produced a superb full-length flying save to palm the ball away!! World-class save!!

Kenny then took another 7 shots but to no avail. 

Voting results:

Ismail – 11

Chun Haw – 6

Chua – 5

Soon – 5

Darren – 4

Guoxiong – 3

Tjioe – 3

Elvis – 1

Eng Lai – 1