Match #10 (26 Feb 2012): Brave Performance, Gritty Win

Our unbeaten streak of the new season looked set to come to a halt against Red Stars, which comprise a potent mix of late-30s and early-20s and have, among them, a few players who used to ply their trade in S-League. Their technique, movement, passing are simply 2 notches above us. Facing such formidable opponent and given the water-soaked pitch that made the condition even more treacherous for us, we put in the best shift of duty to date, grinding out an against-all-odds 3-2 win over them. The fact they applauded and paid generous compliments to us at the end of the match speaks volume of our grit and determination. Everyone of us worked our socks off for this hugely satisfying win.

The blistering pace that they set from the whistle stretched us thin and the match was hardly 10 minutes old when they opened accounts. Teck Chye equalised, though he looked a tad offside, when a fiercely determined Simon bulldozed his way in between 2 defenders for Teck Chye to benefit from. Simon then scored another of his trademark long-range goal from a free-kick just after the centre line to reverse the deficit at the break. Simon added to his goal tally with another cracker from outside box but Red Stars forced the match to the wire with a late goal to set up a pulsating finish. Our defence department comprising Melvin, Rock, Weng Kwan, Ng, Chwee Leng and Chung Wen could stand tall and proud against such pacy and skilful forwards of Red Stars. Well Done! Love it!

Match #9 (18 Feb 2012): A Disciplined Marine Sunday; A Fine Win

We put up a very disciplined performance to beat Team Orange 7-0 and kept our second clean sheet so far. No doubt, our strikers should grab the limelight but credit to our defence line, impressively marshalled by Melvin and fine performance from Rock and Chung Wen, both back after a spell on the sidelines through injury. Our guest player, Daniel, put in a fine shift of duty as left-back. Teck Chye (3), Teck Wah (2) and one each from Kama and Mike completed the rout.

Match #8 (12 Feb 2012): The Wind took out the Venom of Opponent

In any other matches, those two moments of individual brilliance from Teck Chye would have usually grabbed the limelight of this 5-3 win over Venom. But this win was actually masterminded by our resident feng-shui master, i.e. Melvin, who advised just before we kicked off the 2H that we should make use of the wind which was blowing against Venom. True enough, we scored two wind-assisted goals - Simon, from his trademark long range free-kick just after the centre line that swerved cruelly for Venom's custodian to deal with. Then the master himself swinged in a corner that seemed to hang eternally in mid air before it suddenly dropped just under the bar, again embarassing their keeper. Our master's advice clearly overshadowed every other thing.

Teck Chye, scorer of our 2nd and 4th goals, atoned for his countless misses in the last match with this pair of screaming beauties, one from each foot. The younger Tang opened the account for us after Chor Guan nodded the free-kick from Melvin perfectly onto the path of Teck Wah for the latter to deftly place the ball beyond the reach of Venom's keeper.

Venom, to their credit, kept pressing us and reducing the deficit to eventually equalise at 3-3. They thought they had the match in their hands but too bad, they don't believe in feng shui. And we have a practitioner in disguise, and a non-Chinese one. Full moon next, how should we play?

Match #7 (4 Feb 2012): 8-nil Romp

The one-sided scoreline was not reflective of ACME's quality. We know them, our past few encounters were close and evenly contested. For this match, they were not only deprived of their regular players but were also short in number, starting and ending the match with 10 players. We were in similar situation and had to call up 2 guest players.

We were disciplined throughout the match. Even with a 4-0 lead at half-time, we continued to press them hard and continued to breach their high defence line with our overlapping runs to find space.

Teck Wah (3 goals), Teck Chye (2, and he missed 4 other glorious opportunities in the 1st half!), Mike (2) and Kama completed the rout of ACME. And KH had 4.....assists :)