On the back of an inspiring performance from captain Toh, ARFC chalked up its 4th
successive wins in as many matches after a hard-fought but thoroughly-deserved
2-1 victory over Sarafaco FC.
ARFC fans were treated to a
pleasant surprise when Sebastian finally made his return after several months
out with his medical treatment.
ARFC suffered a crushing
blow when Haron had to pull put due to illness from being overworked.
ARFC started with this 4-4-2
line-up:
|
Jersey no.
|
Name
|
Position
|
|
33
|
Talisman Derrick
|
Goalkeeper
|
|
20
|
Composed Eng Lai
|
Right-back
|
|
14
|
Combative Ron
|
Sweeper
|
|
15
|
Towering Toh (captain)
|
Stopper
|
|
6
|
Unbeatable Darren
|
Left-back
|
|
16
|
Marauding Guoxiong
|
Right-mid
|
|
4
|
Dynamic Soon
|
Centre-mid
|
|
8
|
Talented Chun Haw
|
Centre-mid
|
|
78
|
Steely Tze Ern
|
Left-mid
|
|
66
|
Wonder Wayne
|
Striker
|
|
11
|
Speedy Hee
|
Striker
|
|
Subs:
|
|
|
|
2
|
Unpredictable Blackburn
|
|
|
7
|
Influential Sebastian
|
|
|
99
|
Powerful Alvin
|
|
|
Xx
|
Benny
|
|
|
Xx
|
Kai
|
|
|
Absent:
|
||
|
3
|
Astute-reading sweeper
Elvis
|
|
|
5
|
Impeccable How Meng
|
|
|
9
|
ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
|
|
|
10
|
Sublime Khim
|
|
|
17
|
Nippy Kenny
|
|
|
18
|
Determined Huiming
|
|
|
19
|
Skillful Weilit
|
|
|
21
|
Rampaging Raymond
|
|
|
28
|
Hard-man Tjioe
|
|
|
31
|
Vintage Chua
|
|
|
45
|
Commanding Ismail
|
|
|
77
|
Dependable Jinzhong
|
|
ARFC dominated from the start and
Wayne skewed his shot just wide.
In the 20th, ARFC
broke the deadlock. Soon showed
great determination to win the ball off their defender down the left and passed
to Tze Ern. Tze Ern’s fierce shot
was palmed away by their GK, but only to Guoxiong on the right. Guoxiong faked
a shot with his right leg and fooled their defender before placing the ball
home with his left foot. World-class goal! 1-0 and this was Guoxiong’s 26th
ARFC goal.
Amazingly, after scoring his
first goal for ARFC in 2016 last week, Guoxiong has now scored in successive
matches.
Hee then slalomed his way into
the box before passing to Wayne who was totally unmarked. However, Wayne could
not find the target.
Sebastian and Kai then played a
quick short corner which saw Sebastian finding Tze Ern in the box. However, Tze
Ern’s shot was charged down by their defender.
In the 2nd half, ARFC
continud to dominate but strangely conceded a counter-attack goal. 1-1
Sebastian then nearly marked his
return with a goal. After Chun Haw
was upended yet again, Sebastian stepped up, curled the ball over their
extended wall but only succeeded to hit the side-netting. Unlucky!
ARFC then regained its lead.
Blackburn’s corner caused mayhem in their penaly box. Alvin then hooked the
ball upwards and when the ball came down near the goal-line, Soon challenged
for the ball. The ball then dropped for a second time and Toh then fully
utilised his Ironman-like frame to force the ball home. 2-1 and this was Toh’s
89th ARFC goal.
Alvin then put his snap shot just
wide.
Blackburn then teed up Alvin but
his shot somehow went out for a throw-in.
Chun Haw then passed to Alvin
whose shot was blocked by their GK. From the ensuing rebound, Wayne shot wide.
Sebastian then came to ARFC’s
rescue when the opponents caught ARFC napping from a corner. As the only warrior staying in defence
and faced with 3 opponents, Sebastian miraculously salvaged the situation and
preserved ARFC’s lead.
Voting results:
Guoxiong – 9
Tze Ern – 6
Darren – 5
Toh – 5
Chun Haw – 4
Ron – 2
Eng Lai – 2
Soon – 1
Hee – 1
Derrick – 1
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