Playing on the brand-new pristine et heavy
artificial pitch at the Tampines Hub, ARFC produced distinct halves of
performance to draw 1-1 with Boca FT.
ARFC was supported by Lingzhi (Ron’s beau)
and also Darren’s entire brood - Pauline, Rachel, Reyes and Radelle.
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
|
Stopper
|
|
6
|
Unbeatable Darren
|
Left-back
|
|
16
|
Marauding Guoxiong
|
Right-mid
|
|
4
|
Dynamic Soon
|
Centre-mid
|
|
7
|
Influential Sebastian
(captain)
|
Centre-mid
|
|
2
|
Unpredictable Blackburn
|
Left-mid
|
|
99
|
Powerful Alvin
|
Striker
|
|
9
|
ARFC Scoring Legend Haron
|
Striker
|
|
Subs:
|
||
|
3
|
Astute-reading sweeper
Elvis
|
|
|
20
|
Composed Eng Lai
|
|
|
66
|
Wonder Wayne
|
|
|
Absent:
|
||
|
5
|
Impeccable How Meng
|
|
|
8
|
Talented Chun Haw
|
|
|
10
|
Sublime Khim
|
|
|
11
|
Speedy Hee
|
|
|
17
|
Nippy Kenny
|
|
|
18
|
Determined Huiming
|
|
|
19
|
Skillful Weilit
|
|
|
21
|
Rampaging Raymond
|
|
|
28
|
Hard-man Tjioe
|
|
|
45
|
Commanding Ismail
|
|
|
77
|
Dependable Jinzhong
|
|
|
78
|
Steely Tze Ern
|
|
ARFC
started extremely well and kept in total control with its neat and unflustered
passing and movements in the first 20 minutes and hence it was no surprise at
all when it grabbed the lead in the 7th min.
Sebastian
then delivered a free-kick from the left but Toh missed narrowly.
From
left-back, Darren passed to Sebastian, and in a typical fashion, the latter
pinged a long diagonal ball down the left channel for Alvin to chase. Their GK, who was Ismail (our MIA GK),
rushed out of the box and cleared the ball away. However, his half-clearance only reached Blackburn who then
took aim at the goal with a wild diagonal ball. Fortunately, his ball reached the right side where Guoxiong
took full advantage of their dithering left-back by heading the bouncing ball
ahead of their left-back before firing home a nice low shot past their GK. Superb reading from Guoxiong!
1-0 and this was Guoxiong’s 27th
ARFC goal and also his first ARFC goal in 2017.
Strangely
enough, ARFC then ceded control to the opponents after 20 minutes, most
probably due to tiredness as the opponents were at least 10 years younger.
ARFC was
then indebted to Derrick who once again enhanced his growing reputation as a
top-notch GK for ARFC.
In the 27th
min, their striker, though in a very obvious off-side position fired in a
fierce grounder that looked destined for an equaliser. Derrick, however, had other ideas when
he spread his legs wide to block the shot and stunned the watching 700 fans
there. Simply world-class save!
ARFC then
responded when Darren dribbled all the way upfront from his left-back position
and exchanged wall passes with Eng Lai before shooting just narrowly side with
his left foot. Unlucky!
In the 2nd
half, Blackburn sent Wayne scurrying clear of goal but the latter’s weak
left-foot shot did not trouble their GK at all.
7 mins
later, Wayne could have put the result to bed. Eng Lai’s perfect long ball from
the back was surpassed by a more perfect bring-down from Wayne. With their last man charging in, Wayne
rode his tackle and burst clear and headed straight for goal. Alas, with just
their GK to beat, Wayne placed the ball just narrowly over much to the chagrin
of all ARFC players and supporters.
Wayne then
tried to make amends when he scurried down the left flank but his delivery
across goal was not anticipated by anyone. Wasted!
The
opponents then grabbed the equalizer after ARFC warriors were obviously tiring.
Final score
1-1
Voting
results:
Soon – 9
Derrick – 8
Guoxiong – 8
Ron – 7
Darren – 5
Chua – 3
Wayne – 2
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