Scorers (Assists)
Own goal (Amin) 2nd half
Man Of The Match
Amin - 5 (it's probably time we put him on the wings...)
Imran - 4 (great defending!)
Helmi - 3 (heart of everything again - expect him to deliver more)
Shafi - 2 (left-back wonder)
Muhammad - 1 (slotting in nicely into the team)
Kelvin - 1 (Tevez-like player)
Wilson (GK)
Akim - Calvin - Imran - Shafi
Kelvin - Amin - Helmi - Rafeeq
Syafiq - Huang
Subs:
Rahman
Karim
Omar
Muhammad
Azman
Azhari
Farhan
3 games into the league and we are now beaten for the 2nd consecutive game despite enjoying a good start with a 3-1 victory in this team's first foray into competitive football.
What has gone wrong for this team so far? Including our friendly games, this latest loss marked our 4th consecutive loss.
Even with Imran and Calvin back in the team to shore up a fragile defence, we found ourselves 2-0 down in the 2nd half. This was our 6th game since we last kept a clean sheet.
Even when we pulled back a goal through an own goal via Amin's corner, that also culminated around the time when we yet again displayed our great intensity only in the last anxious latter part of the 2nd half, we never really looked like scoring. Fair to say, we again failed to create enough clear-cut chances despite the obvious array of talent in our squad, much less a single team of 11 players.
There was lack of invention at times but I did recall some decent, at times brilliant, movement of interplay exchange of passes. Yet when we tried to get the ball into key areas, we got ourselves foiled by the not-so-infrequent-occurence of an offside trap or our players were at times guilty of hanging onto the ball for too long when there are obvious options available or we simply overplayed our passes or, and this has been a very common problem, we almost failed to win every single high ball challenge.
I am not really fond of saying this too but maybe the number of substitutes may have played a part as well. Substitutions do disrupt the momentum we have built sometimes during a match.
I wish to reiterate this though. I always feel that it is all about our players getting a game, which comes only once per week, so that each single player that I do call upon, really sorry to those that I can't call upon as well, will come to a match and played some active part instead of being a 5 minute substitute. Imagine a person living in the east or west and come 2 hours just to play 5 minutes of football on the other side of the island. Doesn't reflect well for his morale, does it?
Okay, enough rambling about our number of subs, I just wish to point out that we do have a healthy squad and the smiles and laughter, banter and chatter, I see each week is enough to remind me why we are entering this league in the 1st place. We may wish to win but if we do play well, which we had done in this match I feel, the result does not really matter.
Some of you may feel differently for sure. But rest assured, when the time is right, we will have 2 sets of Kambing team (I'm still not a big fan of our team name) with just the right mixture of substitutes and players in the not so distant future. For now, despite this loss, we will do our best to rebound next week at Punggol Sec against Samalongkok.
Akim
What has gone wrong for this team so far? Including our friendly games, this latest loss marked our 4th consecutive loss.
Even with Imran and Calvin back in the team to shore up a fragile defence, we found ourselves 2-0 down in the 2nd half. This was our 6th game since we last kept a clean sheet.
Even when we pulled back a goal through an own goal via Amin's corner, that also culminated around the time when we yet again displayed our great intensity only in the last anxious latter part of the 2nd half, we never really looked like scoring. Fair to say, we again failed to create enough clear-cut chances despite the obvious array of talent in our squad, much less a single team of 11 players.
There was lack of invention at times but I did recall some decent, at times brilliant, movement of interplay exchange of passes. Yet when we tried to get the ball into key areas, we got ourselves foiled by the not-so-infrequent-occurence of an offside trap or our players were at times guilty of hanging onto the ball for too long when there are obvious options available or we simply overplayed our passes or, and this has been a very common problem, we almost failed to win every single high ball challenge.
I am not really fond of saying this too but maybe the number of substitutes may have played a part as well. Substitutions do disrupt the momentum we have built sometimes during a match.
I wish to reiterate this though. I always feel that it is all about our players getting a game, which comes only once per week, so that each single player that I do call upon, really sorry to those that I can't call upon as well, will come to a match and played some active part instead of being a 5 minute substitute. Imagine a person living in the east or west and come 2 hours just to play 5 minutes of football on the other side of the island. Doesn't reflect well for his morale, does it?
Okay, enough rambling about our number of subs, I just wish to point out that we do have a healthy squad and the smiles and laughter, banter and chatter, I see each week is enough to remind me why we are entering this league in the 1st place. We may wish to win but if we do play well, which we had done in this match I feel, the result does not really matter.
Some of you may feel differently for sure. But rest assured, when the time is right, we will have 2 sets of Kambing team (I'm still not a big fan of our team name) with just the right mixture of substitutes and players in the not so distant future. For now, despite this loss, we will do our best to rebound next week at Punggol Sec against Samalongkok.
Akim
