Scorers (assists)
Nas (Fairuz)
Akim (GK)
Kevin - Azmi - Ariel Shahril - Farid
Fairuz - Yongsheng - Rahman - Azman - Helmi
Nas
Subs:
Firdaus Masdar
Kelvin
Joharie
Huang
Our team in D2D league
Rest of league results
Siglap Sec 3pm - Kambing FC notched up its 2nd point of the season after battling to a 1-1 draw against familiar foes Industmarine Football. The match ended prematurely after the referee was subject to some unsightly scenes by the opponents and he made the decision to abandon it to our dismay. Nonetheless, on our part, the result was a small step in recovering from the tough lesson taught to us in the last league game. Despite being a familiar foe, IF featured a much-changed line-up of younger players. Our team made some changes from the last game as well, as I kept goal in place of the absent Wilson and the bench featured the return of Firdaus, our popular full-back.
The match was hardly exciting with few chances on goal by either side and apart from the goal I conceded, I did not have much to do. The first half was a scrappy affair for us, as we displayed little fluency with our passing and hardly threatened the opponents in the final third of the field. The opponents were more direct, and it was commendable that our defence again stood up to the test to keep them at bay, and I was not forced into making any save. We knew we were a much better team and the one area of improvement we could have worked on was giving more support to Nas, who cut a literally lone figure up front.
This we did in the second half, and we looked to be the more threatening team this time around. Both teams continued to create few chances on goal. Azman's freekick, destined for the top corner, was turned away superbly by the GK, but it was the spark we needed to bring life into our game. It was perhaps unsurprising that it took a set-piece to break the deadlock. From a corner, the ball fell loose to Fairuz outside the penalty box. With back to goal, he attempted a speculative shot towards goal and Nas was on hand to turn the shot beyond the reach of the off-guard GK to score his first league goal.
Our celebrations abruptly ended after IF equalized minutes later. We attempted to play offside from a set-piece and the long ball was flighted deep into our territory. No one failed to track an opponent who beat the offside trap, and simultaneously, I made an ill-judged decision to win the ball but was caught in no man's land instead. The opponent got to the ball first to send a looping header over me that just crept inside our upright.
The game almost worked in our favour after a controversial moment of the match surrounding the dismissal of an IF player. Farid won the ball fairly following a hard challenge on an opponent on the sidelines, but another opponent followed through with a tackle that caught Farid in the head. The referee had no hesitation to show the red card to him, for what I can only perceive as being for dangerous play. We failed to take advantage of our extra man, but another controversial moment that led to the dismissal of another IF player, would have made matters more interesting. However, the opponents did not react kindly to that decision and play was stopped for a few minutes as we all waited for the player to leave the field but he did not. IF futilely remonstrated with the referee and abuse was subsequently hurled towards him forcing him to call off the game.
Akim
Rest of league results
Siglap Sec 3pm - Kambing FC notched up its 2nd point of the season after battling to a 1-1 draw against familiar foes Industmarine Football. The match ended prematurely after the referee was subject to some unsightly scenes by the opponents and he made the decision to abandon it to our dismay. Nonetheless, on our part, the result was a small step in recovering from the tough lesson taught to us in the last league game. Despite being a familiar foe, IF featured a much-changed line-up of younger players. Our team made some changes from the last game as well, as I kept goal in place of the absent Wilson and the bench featured the return of Firdaus, our popular full-back.
The match was hardly exciting with few chances on goal by either side and apart from the goal I conceded, I did not have much to do. The first half was a scrappy affair for us, as we displayed little fluency with our passing and hardly threatened the opponents in the final third of the field. The opponents were more direct, and it was commendable that our defence again stood up to the test to keep them at bay, and I was not forced into making any save. We knew we were a much better team and the one area of improvement we could have worked on was giving more support to Nas, who cut a literally lone figure up front.
This we did in the second half, and we looked to be the more threatening team this time around. Both teams continued to create few chances on goal. Azman's freekick, destined for the top corner, was turned away superbly by the GK, but it was the spark we needed to bring life into our game. It was perhaps unsurprising that it took a set-piece to break the deadlock. From a corner, the ball fell loose to Fairuz outside the penalty box. With back to goal, he attempted a speculative shot towards goal and Nas was on hand to turn the shot beyond the reach of the off-guard GK to score his first league goal.
Our celebrations abruptly ended after IF equalized minutes later. We attempted to play offside from a set-piece and the long ball was flighted deep into our territory. No one failed to track an opponent who beat the offside trap, and simultaneously, I made an ill-judged decision to win the ball but was caught in no man's land instead. The opponent got to the ball first to send a looping header over me that just crept inside our upright.
The game almost worked in our favour after a controversial moment of the match surrounding the dismissal of an IF player. Farid won the ball fairly following a hard challenge on an opponent on the sidelines, but another opponent followed through with a tackle that caught Farid in the head. The referee had no hesitation to show the red card to him, for what I can only perceive as being for dangerous play. We failed to take advantage of our extra man, but another controversial moment that led to the dismissal of another IF player, would have made matters more interesting. However, the opponents did not react kindly to that decision and play was stopped for a few minutes as we all waited for the player to leave the field but he did not. IF futilely remonstrated with the referee and abuse was subsequently hurled towards him forcing him to call off the game.
Akim