Besides having similarly sounding names, both Sundays had another thing common for their first derby match. Both sides missed their regular goalkeepers, each had to call upon 2 outfield players, one for each half, to deputise in goal. Marine Sunday's stand-ins proved much superior to Sunday FC's and in case nobody noticed it, this seemingly lop-sided 6-1 win owed in no small part to our Gan and Teck Chye in goal. The gulf scoreline looked deceiving, it didn't tell any story that we were under seige for the first 25 minutes of the match. In our typical fashion, we started poorly and let the technically and physically superior Sunday FC boss around us. Gan had to produced two stunning saves, one of which a penalty, to keep Sunday FC at bay. Against the run of play, we dealt them with 3 sucker punches, all due to Teck Wah's well-timed run to beat their offside line. Teck Chye first set Teck Wah up in the box for the opening goal before the latter latched onto Melvin's superb pass to set up his elder sibling and return the earlier favour. 2-0. Sunday FC reduced the deficit when their left-winger's cross caught Gan by surprise to sail into goal. Weng Khong then threaded in another through pass for Teck Wah to easily side-foot the keeper for a healthy-looking 3-1 lead at the break.
It was Teck Chye's turn to fill in between the posts when play resumed and while he didn't produce those stunning saves of Gan, he dealt with whatever Sunday FC threw at him - low shots, thunder bolts, crosses, corners, through balls - with such ease that he made us forget who Brandon is, and the latter had to turn up to remind us of his presence! Gan, Mike and Simon produced the goods for us in the 2nd half and their keeper pulled off a superb double saves to deny Gan and then Teck Wah, gallantly blocking the latter's stiff volley with his face.
Another satisfying morning outing with the mid-lifers proving their worth over the testosterone-raging young fellas.
It was Teck Chye's turn to fill in between the posts when play resumed and while he didn't produce those stunning saves of Gan, he dealt with whatever Sunday FC threw at him - low shots, thunder bolts, crosses, corners, through balls - with such ease that he made us forget who Brandon is, and the latter had to turn up to remind us of his presence! Gan, Mike and Simon produced the goods for us in the 2nd half and their keeper pulled off a superb double saves to deny Gan and then Teck Wah, gallantly blocking the latter's stiff volley with his face.
Another satisfying morning outing with the mid-lifers proving their worth over the testosterone-raging young fellas.
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