Darren saves the day in shock 1-1 draw with Dark Horse

In probably its most disjointed performance to date, ARFC was indebted to Darren’s headed goal as it somehow drew 1-1 with Dark Horse.

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

Jersey no.	Name	Position
33	Talisman Derrick	Goalkeeper
31	Vintage Chua	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
7	Influential Sebastian	Centre-mid
17	Nippy Kenny	Left-mid
99	Powerful Alvin	Striker
66	Wonder Wayne	Striker
Subs:
2	Unpredictable Blackburn
8	Talented Chun Haw
11	Speedy Hee
18	Determined Huiming
19	Skillful Weilit
20	Composed Eng Lai
78	Steely Tze Ern
Absent:
3	Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
5	Impeccable How Meng
9	ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
10	Sublime Khim
21	Rampaging Raymond
28	Hard-man Tjioe
45	Commanding Ismail
77	Dependable Jinzhong

ARFC was quicker off the blocks and created several golden chances.

Guoxiong and Chua combined brilliantly down the right to release Alvin down the right touch-line. Alas, Alvin’s tantalising cross foud no one.

Sebastian, who returned to the first team line-up after a long absence, made his first telling contributio when he threaded in a trade-mark ball down the right to Guoxiong.  However, his superb cross was not picked up by anyone.

Kenny then put Alvin through and with just their GK to beat, Alvin made thw rong decision to casually lift the ball ove their GK when a simple shot would suffice.  As a result, the soft bouncing ball was cleared away by their recovering defender.

Sebastian’s trade-mark corner was then headed just wide by Toh.

Moments later, Toh again glanced his header wide of the goal from Alvin;s corner.

Just before half-time, Derrick came to ARFC’s rescue when he denied their striker from scoring from an one-on-one situation.

ARFC apparently did not heed the warning and soon conceded a goal just after half-time. 0-1

ARFC woke up and launched waves after waves of attacks but just could not get the equalising goal.

With the clock ticking down, ARFC finally grabbed the equaliser.

From Tze Ern’s world-class corner, Darren rose like a salmon and headed home his 6^th ARFC goal. 1-1

With the goal, Darren has moved to level terms with Jinzhong on 6 goals in ARFC’s scoring chart.

Voting results:

Darren – 11

Tze Ern – 8

Ron – 7

Soon – 6

Chua – 4

Alvin – 3

Chun Haw – 3

Kenny – 2

Toh – 2

Hee – 2