Derrick shines in 3-1 victory

Bouyed by its first won league win last week, ARFC continued its winning ways by brushing aside the determined Dark Horse 3-1.

ARFC started with this 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
8	Talented Chun Haw	Centre-mid
19	Skillful Weilit	Left-mid
11	Speedy Hee	Striker
99	Powerful Alvin	Striker
Subs:
2	Unpredictable Blackburn
9	ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
17	Nippy Kenny
20	Composed Eng Lai
66	Wonder Wayne
78	Steely Tze Ern
Absent:
3	Astute-reading sweeper Elvis
5	Impeccable How Meng
7	Influential Sebastian
10	Sublime Khim
18	Determined Huiming
28	Hard-man Tjioe
21	Rampaging Raymond
45	Commanding Ismail
77	Dependable Jinzhong

The match was really boring for the first 15 mins as neither side seemed able to get its groove going with no goal-scoring chances created by both sides.

In the 15^th min, Toh suffered a bizarre knee injury as he tried to turn even though there were no opponents near him.

In the 30^th min, ARFC finally took the lead.  Alvin retrieved the ball with his back to goal ala Drogba-style.  He then released Chun Haw down the right and with his caliber, Chun Haw bore down on goal, brushed aside some defenders and calmly placed the ball past their despairing GK at the near post.  1-0 and this was Chun Haw’s 54^th ARFC goal.

In the 35^th min, Toh recovered from his bizarre knee injury and returned to the match.

In the 2^nd half, ARFC doubled its lead straight from the re-start! Kenny took a long shot towards goal with Haron following through.  Kenny’s shot was heading towards the top corner but their GK somehow managed to keep out the powerful shot.  The ball went back to the penalty spot area and their GK told his defender to leave the ball alone.  However, his defender inexplicably decided to head the ball towards his GK but the ball missed his GK.  Haron was the biggest beneficiary and his predatory instinct shone when he followed up on the error by simply and easily kicked the ball into the unguarded net.  2-0 and this was Haron’s 242^nd ARFC goal.

ARFC then put the result to bed in the 77^th min.  From the right and about 37 metres away from goal, Kenny had initially wanted to pass the ball to his strikers.  Spotting a slightly off-position GK, Kenny then decided to curl a delicious ball towards the far corner of the net.  With their GK grasping thin air, the ball nested nicely into the top corner for his 75^th ARFC goal.  3-0

2 mins later, Derrick showed why he has great potential to be a Man Utd GK when he produced an out-of-this-world save.  A very powerful shot that seemed to be too fast too furious looked a certainty for a goal.  Leaping like a leopard going after a female prey, Derrick stretched out both his hands and palmed the ball past the post! His stunning save stunned everyone into silence and all even forgotten to applaud him.

ARFC then conceded a late goal to win 3-1.

Voting results:

Kenny – 11

Derrick – 9

Darren – 6

Tze Ern – 6

Ron – 4

Chun Haw – 2

Haron – 2

Soon – 2

Guoxiong – 2

Eng Lai – 1