Khim's sublime goal and Huiming's stunning blocks propelled ARFC Veteran Team to victory

Playing its 6^th veteran match and 2^nd match in 2018, ARFC Veteran Team posted its 2^nd successive 3-0 victory after comprehensively dismissing Shaolin FC, boasting Soon and Tong in its ranks, 3-0 at Yio Chu Kang SS.

ARFC Veteran Team started with this line-up:

GK – Derrick

RB – Kiat

Sweeper – Eng Lai

Stopper – Huiming

LB – David

RM – Raymond

CM – Sebastian (Captain)

CM – Khim

LM – Darren

SC – Haron

SC – Jeffrey

Subs:

Tjioe

Ron

Tze Ern

Blackburn

Alvin

Toh also turned up for photo-taking as he was recalled by SAF though the veracity could not be ascertained.

ARFC started at a fast and furious pace and within minutes, Raymond’s downward header put Haron clean through.  However, Haron’s stupendous volley was just99 mm over the bar but what a volley ala Torres in his Liverpool prime.

After a few more chances, ARFC finally opened the scoring.  From intense pressure on the left by Darren, Jeffrey and Sebastian, Haron received the ball outside the box.  Hearing Sebastian’s call, Haron relayed the ball to him and continued his run into the box.  Demonstrating perfect telepathy understanding, Sebastian sliced a perfectly-timed and perfectly-paced grounder into the path of Haron who did not even need to moderate his run due to the great ball.  Taking 2 more steps, Haron calmly placed the ball past their despairing GK for his 5^th ARFC Veteran Team goal and 249^th overall ARFC goals. 1-0

ARFC then made 5 substitutions with Tjioe, Ron, Tze Ern, Blackburn and Alvin coming on for Sebastian, Eng Lai, Raymond, Jeffrey and Haron respectively.

Blackburn almost immediately made a telling contribution when his cross-volley from the left to the far right saw Tze Ern failing to connect cleanly.

Alvin then laid the ball to Tjioe from 37 metres out an the latter’s world-class chip unfortunately clipped the cross-bar but what an audacious chip.

ARFC then doubled its lead thanks to a piece of silky skills from Khim.  Receiving the ball in the centre of the pitch, Khim slalomed past 3 opponents and moved menacingly towards goal.  Facing heir GK alone, Khim had the coolest of mind to simply place the ball past their GK for his 1^st ARFC Veteran Team goal and 59^th overall ARFC goals. 2-0 and what world-class skills.

In the 2^nd half, ARFC eased off a bit and ended up loaning Derrick and Raymond to the opponents in the last 20 minutes.

ARFC then put the result to bed after Tze Ern’s left-wing cross ball reached Blackburn who duly thumped home the ball for his 2^nd ARFC Veteran Team goal and 156 overall ARFC goals. 3-0

The opponents were quite unlucky as they hit the cross-bar twice.

Man-of-the-Match goes to Huiming who came up with several crucial blocks.

Special credit once again to Derrick for being the GK for most of the match, and to Kiat for replacing him.