Team FATA

After another long layoff of 3 months (I seriously think we do meet up quarterly), with most of the members busy with schools and exams, we head back to the place where we had our very 1st match, Yishun Ring Road. The condition of the field is much better as compared to the last few times we played. Weather is good, our opponents aren’t intimidating, and we were all raring to go.

From the moment the whistle signals the start of the match, we dominated the game. Its amazing to see the Fatarians putting in one of the best first half performance. In the 10th minute, after much confidence play, Sean sends a high through ball and Siong Wei breaks the offside trap to send the Fatarians 1 up. Awhile later, Galv’s freekick from the right was nodded on by Lionel to CJ, who makes no mistake from 5 yards. While our opponents are still sorting out their defence, we hit them with the 3rd goal. Zheng Hui and Munzir combine down the left to release Matt, who coolly rounded the keeper. Then it was Matt who return the favor when he sends Zheng Hui free after his off the ball run into the penalty box. After some tinkering, we took shifted down a gear and let them come back with 2 goals. William keep us in the game with a number of saves in 1 on 1 situations. We still managed to get one more goal when Matt plays a neat one two with Qing Feng and side-footed the ball to the left corner.

2nd Half we proceed with 4-5-1 as the key to winning is shutting down their 2 center midfielders. With Marcus and CJ dropping abit deeper, Cambiasso was allowed to roam forward freely which he enjoys doing. The plan works with much effect as the goals began to flow again. After soaking up one of their attack, we hit them on the break from the right. Cambiasso played a perfect through pass and Galv finished with a grounder. 6-2 is the score if you’ve lost me already. We began to come back into the game. Cambiasso, Galv and Matt are terrorizing their defence at will. Cambiasso and Galv had some good exchanges before Galv sends a deep cross for Matt to volley in the 7th. While our opponents are searching for their 3rd consolation, we wrapped it up when Jinhao brings the ball to the byline and pull it back for Galv to slots home the final goal. Final whistle blows and the score is 8-2.

With a few new players in our team today, it was good timing that our opponents weren’t insanely strong (remember the construction workers). After a superb start in the 1st 30minutes, we switched off for awhile. There was no communication in defence when Cambiasso was brought back to defence with Wee Hian going off. The midfield also didn’t fall back fast enough to protect the back four in a lot of occasions. On the good side, almost all of our members found their best playing position. There is bound to be more exciting football coming from the new recruitments. Man of the match goes to Matt again for his contributions to the team. Joke of the day, William missed the ball from a corner and shouted ‘Shit!’