Match #2 (9 Jan 2010): Won 3 - 2 Agst China All-Stars

A hard-fought win but not after some running rings by a bunch of young, energetic, skilful mainland Chinese. Chor Guan put us 1-0 up at half-time with a well-taken penalty. China All-Stars reversed the deficit into 2-1 lead with their incessant seige on our goal area in the 2nd half. But we made it count when it mattered, Teck Wah's header equalised for us after connecting a superb cross from Weng Khong from the right. Then Simon punished their communication breakdown in the defence and produced a delicate chip over their tentative goalkeeper for our winning goal.

It's confirmed that natural pitch is no longer suitable for us from the following observations:

1) Gan missed a glaring sitter in the 1st half

2) KH couldn't cross for nuts

3) Chwee Leng kept falling over himself in the 2nd half though he blamed it on his new boots

4) lastly, our Rock completely missed clearing a direct ball....

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Rock's comments:

Hahaha.... correspondingly

1. In football, even Drogba has missed such a sitter. With a little bit more of self-belief, the form & flow should come for Gan...

2. The pre-match talk was a motivational prep-talk which actually materialised into pretty good runs down the flank by KH with 'acceptable' crosses or clever passes back to Wah for more decent crosses & you see, that actually works!

3. You see, Leng is a sprinter & he needs flat ground to transport himself around.. hence the numerous stumbles :-)

4. Lastly, guess... KH meant that Rock did such a good 'dummy' it not only fooled our opponents but our own players as well... hahaha...