Chun Haw nets ARFC's 2000th goal with a hat-trick in 3-1 victory

Courtesy of Chun Haw’s inspiring hat-trick, ARFC came from behind to defeat FC Tebing 3-1.

ARFC was supported by Lingzhi (Ron’s beau) and also Pauline, Rachel and Reyes , Darren’s family. Kenny’s heavily-pregnant wife Joy was also there to support.

ARFC started with this line-up:

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

Despite controlling the proceedings of the match, ARFC fell behind after the opponents scored with their first foray into ARFC’s box! 0-1

ARFC then almost equalised 7 mins later. After Wayne was fouled, Sebastian stepped up and curled a vicious free-kick that looked destined for goal until their GK stuck out a strong arm to tip the ball over for a corner. 

From the resulting corner, Toh headed against the far post. Unlucky!

ARFC then owed Derrick a huge gratitude when the opponents picked up a stray back pass and was facing Derrick one-on-one.  Probably put off by Derrick’s looks, the opponent’s placed shot was somehow kept out by Derrick who got down in an instant to divert the ball for a corner.  Simply world-class save! 

Wayne was then fouled again near the left touch-line. Surprising everyone on and off the pitch, Chun Haw side-footed a low free-kick which evaded the wall and squeezed into the near post of their GK.  1-1 and this was Chun Haw’s 63^rd ARFC goal.

In the 2^nd half, Wayne sent Kenny through but the latter just couldn’t find the net and shot wide to GK’s right.

ARFC then finally went ahead in the 57^th min.  Blackburn’s corner from the left was glanced by the leaping Jinzhong and the ball looked headed out for a goal-kick.  Chun Haw had other ideas though and he sprinted to the ball and kept it in play.  He then faked a right-foot shot, fooled their defenders before firing a left-footer beauty through a seas of defenders for his 64^th ARFC goal. 2-1.

Chun Haw then put the result to bed 7 mins later.  From Blackburn’s free-kick, after yet another foul on Wayne, Chun Haw ran in from deep, beat their off-side trap and simply drilled the ball past their despairing GK for his hat-trick. 3-1 and this was Chun Haw’s 65^th ARFC goal.

Significantly, Chun Haw’s goal was also ARFC’s 2000^th goal since it started in Jun 1991.

With this hat-trick Chun Haw has now scored 6 hat-tricks (18 goals) for ARFC, putting him on level grounds with Blackburn.

Voting results:

Chun Haw – 9

Soon – 9

Darren – 5

Wayne – 5

Derrick – 4

Kenny – 2

Chua – 1

Sebastian – 1