ARFC in unlucky 2-3 loss to SJI Old Boys

Playing under sweltering weather, ARFC could not built on its early domination and lost 2-3 to the SJI Old Boys (younger team) at Catholic JC.

ARFC started with this 4-4-2 line-up:

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

In the 7^th min, Chun Haw won a free-kick on the right. Picking himself up, Chun Haw sent a delicious-looking bal right into the danger area in the box.  Tjioe showed wonderful anticipation when he moved in front of their defender to slide the ball home for his 62^nd ARFC goal. 1-0

Unfortunatey, ARFC conceded 2 goals to trail 1-2 at half-time.

From the re-start, ARFC launched waves after waves of attack but could not find an equalising goal. 

ARFC was then caught out by their countr-attack and conceded anither goal. 1-3.

ARFC never gave up at all. In the 77^th min, ARFC won a free-kick on the left.  Chun Haw stood over the ball and curled a world-class bender ala Luis Suarez to pull a goal back. 2-3 and this was Chun Haw’s 47^th ARFC goal.

Despite more attacks, ARFC could not fashion an equaliser and lost 2-3.

Voting results:

Chun Haw – 11

Darren – 7

Chua – 7

Ismail – 5

Tjioe – 3

Ron – 2

Hee – 1

Wayne – 1

Guoxiong – 1

Eng Lai – 1

Soon – 1

Alvin – 1