Old Jurong Stadium, 1500 Hrs
SUFI FC 5 Real Ale Madrid 0
(Vic, Rudee, Juf, AhCool, Yas)
A 5-star performance? Nah. A exhibition of free flowing football? Perhaps. The heading for the game probably should have read, 'A real team performance' I'm ecstatic that you guys responded to my calls for concentration and fight with a real hearts on our sleeve 80 minutes on the field today. Respect.
1-0: A freekick from around 30 odd yards from me found enough air time to have the keeper sufficiently confused. It eventually hit the bar and the rebound was bravely headed in from within the 6 yard box by the onrushing Vic who had both a huge lumbering defender and the keeper clamouring for his attention. A solid early goal to calm the nerves.
2-0: Xabi ws finally decides to stick to what he is good at with a peach of a through ball from inside our own half. It dissected our opponent's defensive line and eluded the desperate lunges of 2 RAMFC players to find our speedster, Rudee through on goal. Rolling back the months, he expertly lobbed the keeper who was caught in no man's land. Excellent assist and a finish to match.
3-0: A little insight to what goes on during match play. Juf whispered into my ear for a freekick to be delivered to the far post where he would be situated. Thank god my failing radar was working today as it found Juf's head just where he wanted. I must say that the man made the finish look easy as he nodded home to make it 3 without reply just before half time.
4-0: With the magical properties of the powerbalance restored to its rightful position on his wrist, AhCool wowed the crowd when a thumping long throw by Wong found him with a window of opportunity in the box. With the nonchalance of a man who scored in 8 or 9 out of our 10 pre-season friendly games, AhCool backflicked the ball into the back of the net leaving the keeper with no chance. A joy to watch. The man is back. Thank you powerbalance.
5-0: As the rain decided to revisit us in the last 15 minutes of the game, we finally added another goal to boost our goal difference when Rudee/law(?) placed a sumptuous inswinging cross that allowed fabreyas to sidefoot home. Once again, the finish was made to look easy. Fantastic work boys.
MOTM: Ronald. The entire team played well boys. Everyone played their roles to perfection but I would give the award on the day to his excellent marshaling throughout the game. Smashing no-nonsense defending. Well done!
The red card today was unfortunate and I did not argue with the ref as I knew it would have been pointless. I feel for you bro but like i said, come back stronger and hungrier! I have already lodged a complain to espzen anyway. And to the rest, 6 red cards and it is 1 point deducted. We know that the man in black can be sensitive creatures like the one today but let's avoid having an additional man be biased against us by criticising him during the game. Just concentrate on the game and leave the talking to me aite.
Back to the game, I would have named everyone as my MOTM as we all contributed to this result by defending stoutly, hassling well and scoring when it mattered. We could have had more but let this result restore some much needed confidence in ourselves. Well, we had 5 different goalscorers too! Thanks guys for heeding my calls for us to step up. Another thing is that we have played 5 official ESPZEN matches and we have kept clean sheets in 4 of them. That, is honestly an amazing stat. All positive results are built on a strong defense and today, all of us (not just our defense and keeper) defended hard and well from the start. Needless to say, Allan and Phileo have been pillars of strength at the back when it mattered too.
We take a break from footie next sat due to CNY and we resume it on the 12th of Feb against Dynamites at MJC. Have a good CNY and lets carry on this momentum into our next league game. See you peeps in 2 weeks. Cheers!
P.S: There's a reason why we got jerseys specially made for each and everyone. Wear them from our next game onwards as I do not want to see our hard earned points deducted for something as minor as not wearing the same jerseys. It could happen. So if the jerseys do not fit, do alter them aite. Thanks.
Players:
Allan
Jason, HG, Ronald, HuiJie, Alaric, SW
Rudee, Wong, AhCool, Law, Mok, Ws, Yas, LQ
Dinie, Juf
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