Having the kick-off time at 3pm and with the recent blazing sun and scorching heat, we feared the weather more than the opponent, a bunch of young men from the high-flying investment bank. We are a blessed bunch of mid-lifers. Weather turned out to be more than kind to us, with the unexpected gloomy clouds hanging but it didn't rain. We couldn't really complain of the cool effect, could we? Goldman Sachs turned out to be a bunch of relatively young football enthusiasts getting together for the first time. Lack of team work and short on fitness in most players aside, they were without a proper goalkeeper. Any decent goalkeeper would have prevented at least 6 of the 8 goals GS conceded. So the one-sided 8-1 scoreline was not indicative of their shortcoming in the quality aspect.
For the record, the harvesters were Teck Wah with a hattrick and 1 each from Mike (this slow tortoise still managed to beat GS' static goalkeeper for our opening goal, it just showed where their fatal point was), Simon (a beautiful cut-in followed by a thunderous shot that left any keeper no chance), Teck Chye (a direct free-kick that slipped through keeper's buttery fingers), Weng Khong (deployed as a forward for just 5 minutes and he demonstrated his positional awareness with a good follow-up after their keeper spilled Chwee Leng's well-taken shot onto the red carpet for him to tap in), Leo (another 5-minutes striker who benefited from this temporary deployment and he popped up at the far post to notch in a good cross from Teck Wah). And of course, Teck Wah's hattrick - 2 well-taken one-on-one goal and a well-drilled free-kick completed the rout of GS. The only MS player who wasn't happy with this harvest was Gan, who had to stand-in as our keeper and as a result, couldn't join the durian party upfront.
But it wasn't totally plain-sailing for us. After taking an early 2-0 lead, we slipped into the "durian mentality" mode that attracted a dressing-down at the break. We pulled up the socks in the 2nd half, and coupled with Goldman fading into Oldmen....another fruitful harvest resulted.
For the record, the harvesters were Teck Wah with a hattrick and 1 each from Mike (this slow tortoise still managed to beat GS' static goalkeeper for our opening goal, it just showed where their fatal point was), Simon (a beautiful cut-in followed by a thunderous shot that left any keeper no chance), Teck Chye (a direct free-kick that slipped through keeper's buttery fingers), Weng Khong (deployed as a forward for just 5 minutes and he demonstrated his positional awareness with a good follow-up after their keeper spilled Chwee Leng's well-taken shot onto the red carpet for him to tap in), Leo (another 5-minutes striker who benefited from this temporary deployment and he popped up at the far post to notch in a good cross from Teck Wah). And of course, Teck Wah's hattrick - 2 well-taken one-on-one goal and a well-drilled free-kick completed the rout of GS. The only MS player who wasn't happy with this harvest was Gan, who had to stand-in as our keeper and as a result, couldn't join the durian party upfront.
But it wasn't totally plain-sailing for us. After taking an early 2-0 lead, we slipped into the "durian mentality" mode that attracted a dressing-down at the break. We pulled up the socks in the 2nd half, and coupled with Goldman fading into Oldmen....another fruitful harvest resulted.
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