Wayne hit landmark 50th ARFC goal in 3-7 loss

In a rather hastily-arranged match on Monday night (17 Feb 2020) at Tampines SAFRA pitch, ARFC came up against a strong, young and fit tam and lost 3-7.

ARFC started with this 4-4-2 line-up:

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

ARFC actually started brightly and managed to carve out a few half chances.

The fitness and hard running of the opponents then started to tell as they built up a 4-0 lead before ARFC pulled a goal back.

From the right, Alvin laid the ball to the on-rushing Soon who elegantly lifted the ball over their GK to the far corner for his 93^rd ARFC goal. 1-4 at half-time.

The opponents then scored 7 mins after the break to lead 5-1.

ARFC pulled another goal back after Kenny, who was clearly the best ARFC player on the night, found his way down the left flank. He answered Alvin’s call for the ball by squaring the ball inwards.  Alvin then dragged the defender out of his bearing with a quick push of the ball to his right before chipping the ball over their GK. 2-5 and this was Alvin’s 330^th ARFC goal.

The opponents then scored 2 more goals to lead 7-2.

ARFC, however, scored the goal of match.  Breaking from the opponents’ failed corner routine, Sebastian passed the ball to Wei Lit who brought the ball upwards to the left. Seeing Kenny making a run from deep to the left, Wei Lit found Kenny with a well-weighted high ball.  Once again, Kenny dribbled down the left flank before sending in a high hanging ball to the middle right area.  Wayne did very well by running into a great position before connecting with a sweet first-timer with his weaker right foot that saw the ball nestled nicely at the top left corner.  3-7 and this was Wayne’s 50^th ARFC goal.