A very scrappy affair

Team Goat 2  Swee Swee 1 FC 1 

Damn the weatherman for its god damn accurate weather prediction. Cloud gathering at 2 and a heavy downpour at 3, cant get any 'Zhun' than that. When i first arrived at the field, my 1st statement to the treasurer (ZhuLiang) was," wa sian! somemore going to rain later at 3. Sure goner la!" Yes indeed it rained but our match started 'PROMPTLY' at 3.45pm thanks to the opp for having just 6 players on the venue. We waited from warm up till we cool down and warm up again.

To the game... Kicking off with just 9 men wearing blue you would probably think that the red team will walk away with a win in ease. You're freaking wrong!!! Just the start of the game the team with 9 men started running down our flanks and shots were fired at the goalkeeper. 1 or 2 saves were made and a few flying over the bar. After 30mins we were still not able to stable ourselves in the midfield area the breakthrough came when their no.7 ran down the right flank going pass Ariel. Determined not to let him pass, Ariel slide in and brought the man down. Penalty! 1-0 enough said.Soon it was Half-time

Still with 9 men, 2nd half started a little brightly for Goat as we were more disciplined and being more organised as well. Passes were made and we soon took the chance to attack as we saw the players on the other half getting tired. First penalty was awarded to us when BoonWee was being pushed in the box when Manfred delivered the corner. JinChuen stepped up but hit the woodwork. (During that point of time, i really feel we are going to lose)

Moving on, another penalty came soon after (ard 5mins) when Jinchuen start driving into the box to make his shot and was brought down by their player who was awarded a 2nd yellow. (this is where all it begins.) Penalty was taken by Manfred and it went straight to the bottom left corner leaving the goalkeeper rooted. 1-1!

As we are pushing for goals, opp started to get rough and rowdy with their play and many free-kicks and cards were awarded. Kiong after 5mins got himself another yellow to send him to the sidelines for kicking at the goalkeeper when he already had the ball. Although down to 10men, Team Goat is still 2 men ahead of Swee Swee 1 FC and the breakthrough came soon after. With Manfred running down the flank he puts in a low cross for the running Jackson to calmly and cooly slots it home for our 2nd goal! The rest was just wasting of time and playing it simple. Final Score 2-1

Although the game was won by us i had to give credit to Swee Swee 1 FC for their plays. They are indeed a great team to play against the passing and movement is really good.(I can't imagine when they have all their players.) Although we are short on our 1st team players but our make shift is still not that bad. We have totally been played during 1st half and sometimes during the 2nd half. For our return game against them, we would really need to buck ourselves up to play with them and definitely hope for a better field to play at.

Man of the Match - Manfred

To me i felt that everyone did not perform today and everyone was still on their bed as morale was low and actually everything was just scrappy. But Manfred shine today with him constant running on the left wing and supporting his left back in times of trouble. He also have shown his coolness when taking the penalty and the cross to help Jackson with the goal. He is also cool when opp starts getting rough and did not fight back when he could do so. So Kudos to him for being our man of the match!

Kambeng!
Jeff