Toh's brace of headers propelled ARFC's 5-2 victory

Playing on a rare 9 pm match on a Friday, ARFC secured a hard-fought 5-2 victory over K11 at the Turf City.

ARFC started with this line-up:

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

ARFC was quickest off the block and earned 3 corners within 7 mins.

However, Toh narrowly sliced his header over for the first corner while the 2 corners were not met by ARFC warriors.

Strangely enough, ARFC fell behind after they capitalized on an error to score. 0-1

ARFC did not panic and credit to all warriors as no one pointed any finger at anyone. 

ARFC then drew level when a corner was hit superbly by Blackburn. The ball sailed just under the cross-bar and Toh made sure of the goal by heading it home. 1-1 and this was Toh’s 91^st ARFC goal.

A slew of changes then took place and Yilong immediately made his presence felt when his through pass saw Alvin galloping down the left side. Before their GK and defenders could react, Alvin simply shot home with his outside right foot for his 291^st ARFC goal. 2-1

Ron was then lucky not to be sent off when he brought their striker, who was clean through, down with a last-ditch but very late sliding tackle. The referee was lenient to just award a yellow card and Ron was immediately substituted as he hurt himself in the process.

Yilong then struck the cross-bar with a 37-metre left-foot shot.  Haron was also unlucky when his shot hit the post.

Yilong then produced a slide-rule pass to put Wayne clean through but the latter’s placed shot was saved by their GK.

In the 2^nd half, ARFC extended its lead when Yilong’s long-range powerful shot was spilled by their GK. 3-1 and this was Yilong’s 3^rd ARFC goal.

Toh then scored his 92^nd ARFC goal when Sebastian’s corner from the right was hit right into the most dangerous area (spot between 6-yard box and penalty spot) and Toh came charging in ala Sami Hyypia to thump home an unstoppable header. 4-1

ARFC then put the result to bed with the best team move that resulted in a goal. First, Sebastian spread the ball to the overlapping Darren whose cross sailed all the way to the opposite flank.  Meanwhile, Sebastian continued his run into the box.  Guoxiong picked up the ball and sent a precise cross to Alvin who as lurking in the box. Alvin took a great first touch and upon hearing Sebastian’s call for the ball, promptly laid the ball to him.  Sebastian then fooled their covering defender with a fake shot by dragging the ball in with his left foot and duly side-footed the ball home with his right foot. 5-1 and this was Sebastian’s 102^nd ARFC goal, putting him level with Derrick.

ARFC then conceded another goal. 5-2.

Darren, who replaced Derrick as GK, then struck out his left foot to deny a certain goal.

Voting results:

Toh – 12

Sebastian – 9

Guoxiong – 8

Soon – 5

Darren – 2

Alvin – 2

Blackburn – 1

Derrick – 1

Hee – 1

Raymond – 1