we savored another good win against strong opposition. apparently, this is their first loss in a long time and well, the scoreline just rubbed it in. like last sunday, our opponents from tengah air base showed up slowly, and all seemed a size bigger than us on average. last week taught us not to judge the opponents by those factors and so we didn't. it didn't surprise us that our opponents were good on the ball, played confidently and were fast to close us down. though our defence was solid as usual, we were missing our regular stoppers. the masterstroke today was fielding chiang in that role. he played an imperious match, chomping on incoming balls before opponents could control them, and their 'old guard with an attitude' at the back had to resort to verbal threats to chop our number 13 in an altercation. so in second half, kh played chiang on the left wing just so to tease old bugger, whose own tackles were not to be scoffed at. it was a tight game in the first half and we had to hold on for a period when we lose the ball too frequently. in the end, again, it was teamwork that wore out individualism to produce another fabulous win. here are the goals.
(1-0, gan): we dominated the early exchanges. gan had sight of goal in the first minute when wah, coming back from injury, chested the ball for him. one touch and the volley from gan went just over. minutes later, a throw-in from lakesh found st who casually clipped the ball into the box. gan controlled it well and was brought down as he was about to pull the trigger. no hesitation from the referee and the penalty was duly despatched by the one who earned it.
(2-0, guan): we defended a corner well and as our guys shouted 'up', almost the entire team took it to the extreme. the remaining 3 guys jogged up in our half to see a sea of blue spread across opponent's final third area. we had moved the ball swiftly along the left flank and a cross was delivered across the penalty box where guan had popped up from defence to finish it at the far end.
(2-1, opponent): towards the end of the first half, opponents had the measure of us as their urgent pressing caused us to be unable to keep possession for long. we lost the ball on our left and their right winger had some time to consider his options. he hit a speculative shot which seah had a hand to but it dropped past the line. seah managed to scoop it out but this referee wasn't going to allow a repeat of what roy caroll did.
half time 2-1.
(3-1, mike): we got this important breakthrough to demoralise our opponents. chye's corner was low but mike stooped low to produce a carbon copy header to the one he scored against techwood. different assist, same result.
(4-1, wah): we now started to dominate possession as opponents wilted under the sun and that feeling of helplessness not being able to make any headway. lakesh recovered a ball in midfield and played to st on the right. watching kh make the run, st played the ball in-between 2 defenders and kh's pace and strength beat them to it. with composure, he delivered the perfect ball across goal for wah to finish it with confidence.
(5-1, st): more pressure from us on the left. chiang brought the ball up on the left and as opponents appeared to have recovered possession, he, kh and gan formed a triangle in pressing the opponents inside the box. out of desperation, the defender's attempted clearance ended up as a pass to st who was lurking just inside the box. an opponent closed in and st shifted the ball to his right only to be held back by the defender. as he fell, he managed to conjure up half a shot which just looped over the keeper into goal.
(6-1, gan): by now, the match had become a struggle for opponents as their attacks lack fluency and bite. it was easy for us to contain them and launch counter attacks. gan received the ball outside the box and with no one closing in on him, he decided on a delightful chip to round off the day's excellent win.
(1-0, gan): we dominated the early exchanges. gan had sight of goal in the first minute when wah, coming back from injury, chested the ball for him. one touch and the volley from gan went just over. minutes later, a throw-in from lakesh found st who casually clipped the ball into the box. gan controlled it well and was brought down as he was about to pull the trigger. no hesitation from the referee and the penalty was duly despatched by the one who earned it.
(2-0, guan): we defended a corner well and as our guys shouted 'up', almost the entire team took it to the extreme. the remaining 3 guys jogged up in our half to see a sea of blue spread across opponent's final third area. we had moved the ball swiftly along the left flank and a cross was delivered across the penalty box where guan had popped up from defence to finish it at the far end.
(2-1, opponent): towards the end of the first half, opponents had the measure of us as their urgent pressing caused us to be unable to keep possession for long. we lost the ball on our left and their right winger had some time to consider his options. he hit a speculative shot which seah had a hand to but it dropped past the line. seah managed to scoop it out but this referee wasn't going to allow a repeat of what roy caroll did.
half time 2-1.
(3-1, mike): we got this important breakthrough to demoralise our opponents. chye's corner was low but mike stooped low to produce a carbon copy header to the one he scored against techwood. different assist, same result.
(4-1, wah): we now started to dominate possession as opponents wilted under the sun and that feeling of helplessness not being able to make any headway. lakesh recovered a ball in midfield and played to st on the right. watching kh make the run, st played the ball in-between 2 defenders and kh's pace and strength beat them to it. with composure, he delivered the perfect ball across goal for wah to finish it with confidence.
(5-1, st): more pressure from us on the left. chiang brought the ball up on the left and as opponents appeared to have recovered possession, he, kh and gan formed a triangle in pressing the opponents inside the box. out of desperation, the defender's attempted clearance ended up as a pass to st who was lurking just inside the box. an opponent closed in and st shifted the ball to his right only to be held back by the defender. as he fell, he managed to conjure up half a shot which just looped over the keeper into goal.
(6-1, gan): by now, the match had become a struggle for opponents as their attacks lack fluency and bite. it was easy for us to contain them and launch counter attacks. gan received the ball outside the box and with no one closing in on him, he decided on a delightful chip to round off the day's excellent win.
final score 6-1.
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Third goal - The corner was from lakash.
Usually with the score line like this one, the scorers get the credit. However, watching from outside, our defenders have been playing very well, covering each other tightly. When the opponent pass one defender, he face another immediately, pass a second and there is a third....well done to our back line for the wonderful work.
As for the assist of the decade, it must go to Guan for the way he bring the ball from our own half, dribble pass the whole team, and chose to pass instead of shooting for glory....this one calls for a standing ovation.
Why Guan was selfless? Because he was the beneficiary of one assist earlier leading to his goal! :)
I forgot to add that it seems the only vocab the opponents know is 'What is this?' to the refree.
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