It seems like we are gearing ourselves up for the annual lunar 7th Month syndrome where, for whatever reason, our results tend to go haywire during this lunar month :D
Our recent performance, especially against seemingly easy opponents and teams who started the match with 1-man short, has been patchy. Against Team Orange, we were disjointed in the first half - misplaced passes, hasty lay-offs, heavy touches, miscommunication in the backline and to sum up in Chwee Leng's words, we were simply slow to every ball and not robust enough. We presented them with two howlers but fortunately, they failed to capitalize and thankfully, on each occasion, the sleeping Brandon woke up in time to smother their goal-scoring opportunities. We suspect it was his desire for showmanship :) At the other hand, Teck Wah had a close-range effort blocked by the defender on the line and their keeper brilliantly denied KH and Chor Guan on two one-on-one situations. Teck Chye had another clean break-through to face only the keeper but uncharacteristically, the ball did not find the intended net despite wrong-footing the keeper. Match ended in stalemate at the break.
Despite their younger age, Team Orange appeared tired and jaded in the 2nd half. We cranked up our machinery to good effect. Our opening goal came from a textbook-style defence-to-attack-in-1-second. Weng Khong cleared the ball down the right strip to set off Chor Guan a lung-bursting run down the right. After a swift cut-in, he set up KH flying down from the opposite flank for a decisive finish past their rooted keeper, who was perhaps mesmerized by how swiftly we moved the ball from our half to their half. Weng Khong again had a hand, or rather a head, in our 2nd goal goal. His powerful header from our half found Chor Guan in the opposite box (geez...that was quite a header!). CG brushed off their defender's marking like sweeping dandruff off his shoulder before planting a left-footed shot past their keeper. 2-0 and we were cruising. They were struggling and this was further compounded by their lack of reserves. When they saw we made another wave of 4 substitutions on the 75th-minute mark, they must be wondering if we had a life apart from football :)
Our recent performance, especially against seemingly easy opponents and teams who started the match with 1-man short, has been patchy. Against Team Orange, we were disjointed in the first half - misplaced passes, hasty lay-offs, heavy touches, miscommunication in the backline and to sum up in Chwee Leng's words, we were simply slow to every ball and not robust enough. We presented them with two howlers but fortunately, they failed to capitalize and thankfully, on each occasion, the sleeping Brandon woke up in time to smother their goal-scoring opportunities. We suspect it was his desire for showmanship :) At the other hand, Teck Wah had a close-range effort blocked by the defender on the line and their keeper brilliantly denied KH and Chor Guan on two one-on-one situations. Teck Chye had another clean break-through to face only the keeper but uncharacteristically, the ball did not find the intended net despite wrong-footing the keeper. Match ended in stalemate at the break.
Despite their younger age, Team Orange appeared tired and jaded in the 2nd half. We cranked up our machinery to good effect. Our opening goal came from a textbook-style defence-to-attack-in-1-second. Weng Khong cleared the ball down the right strip to set off Chor Guan a lung-bursting run down the right. After a swift cut-in, he set up KH flying down from the opposite flank for a decisive finish past their rooted keeper, who was perhaps mesmerized by how swiftly we moved the ball from our half to their half. Weng Khong again had a hand, or rather a head, in our 2nd goal goal. His powerful header from our half found Chor Guan in the opposite box (geez...that was quite a header!). CG brushed off their defender's marking like sweeping dandruff off his shoulder before planting a left-footed shot past their keeper. 2-0 and we were cruising. They were struggling and this was further compounded by their lack of reserves. When they saw we made another wave of 4 substitutions on the 75th-minute mark, they must be wondering if we had a life apart from football :)
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