Somehow, whenever we play against a church team, we fare badly. Perhaps, we are being too harsh with ourselves by treating ourselves as sinners, thereby deferring to those holy souls. And we tend to fare credibly against young team but not so against a veteran team. So, Trinity, a church team comprising players of our age or slightly older, have those double factors over us, a kind of unexplainable aura over us that we were playing like lost sheep without the guiding shepherd and within the first 15 minutes, we conceded 2 soft goals.
That required a call for drastic action to address the non-existent play and a couple of substitutions were made at the 15th minute mark, which doesn't happen by KH's practice. But he just had to do it to plug the hole-y display by our players. We started to create chances. Woon and Teck Wah came closest but luck seemed to have deserted them on those occasions. 0-2 down at the break and the half-time pep talk focused on seizing the initiative in the 2nd half rather than brooding over the spilled milk in the 1st half.
We found that divine spirit in us when play resumed. Teck Wah beat the offside line to set up Weng Khong for a tap-in to reduce the deficit. From then on, we piled relentless pressure on Trinity's goal. Melvin found See Chiang on the right with a long ball and See Chiang's first-timer appeared to be a cross but it fooled everyone, including Trinity's holy angel in goal, as it sailed into goal. Parity restored with 15 minutes left and we opted to go for broke by opting to play 3 at the back with Simon anchoring the midfield and push both Weng Khong and Kama to support attacks. But it was Kok Hock who produced that moment of magic, to the dismay of Trinity. A delightful cut-back with his left foot to switch the ball to his right, he then let fly a curler to leave Trinity's custodian flat-footed. We reversed the deficit into a slender lead and held on to win this cracker! 3-2!
That required a call for drastic action to address the non-existent play and a couple of substitutions were made at the 15th minute mark, which doesn't happen by KH's practice. But he just had to do it to plug the hole-y display by our players. We started to create chances. Woon and Teck Wah came closest but luck seemed to have deserted them on those occasions. 0-2 down at the break and the half-time pep talk focused on seizing the initiative in the 2nd half rather than brooding over the spilled milk in the 1st half.
We found that divine spirit in us when play resumed. Teck Wah beat the offside line to set up Weng Khong for a tap-in to reduce the deficit. From then on, we piled relentless pressure on Trinity's goal. Melvin found See Chiang on the right with a long ball and See Chiang's first-timer appeared to be a cross but it fooled everyone, including Trinity's holy angel in goal, as it sailed into goal. Parity restored with 15 minutes left and we opted to go for broke by opting to play 3 at the back with Simon anchoring the midfield and push both Weng Khong and Kama to support attacks. But it was Kok Hock who produced that moment of magic, to the dismay of Trinity. A delightful cut-back with his left foot to switch the ball to his right, he then let fly a curler to leave Trinity's custodian flat-footed. We reversed the deficit into a slender lead and held on to win this cracker! 3-2!
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