ARFC started 2019 with disastrous but undeserving 1-8 loss

Playing its first match in 2019, ARFC suffered a meltdown in the last 15 mins and went down 1-8 to Maccabees.

ARFC started with this line-up:

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

ARFC started the match confidently and was matched by the much younger opponents.

Wayne was put clean through by Rashid’s perfectly-weighted pass but he could not find enough power behind his shot.

Sebastian then lofted a no-look high pass down to Wayne but his shot lacked sting.

However, ARFC found itself 0-2 down at half time.

In the 2^nd half, the opponents changed almost its entire team and to make maters worst for ARFC, they fielded almost all youngsters.

However, ARFC continued to plug away and pulled a goal back.  Sebastian passed the ball to Alvin who did very well to hold up the ball.  Alvin then heard Chun Haw’s call and split their defence with a brilliant ball for Chun Haw to run in from deep.  Despite playing his first match in months, Chun Haw did not disappoint as he dispatched a low shot through the legs of their GK. 1-2 and this was Chun Haw’s 74^th ARFC goal.

ARFC then nearly grabbed the equalizing goal.  Chua did very well to intercept and block their pass which saw the ball flew to Sebastian on the right. Looking up, Sebastian fizzed in a curling cross which just eluded Wayne’s head. Alvin was behind Wayne and his out-stretched sliding leg just missed the ball by 0.77 mm or else it would have been a EPL-type of sliding goal. Unlucky.

The opponents then scored from an obviously off-side position. 1-3

Thereafter, ARFC simply collapsed due to the heat and also the much younger and fitter opponents to lose 1-8.

Chua is the clear Man-of-the-Match today.