The weather was cloudy and our home ground at the Penang Free School has just been beautifully re-turfed at certain parts; in short, it was a perfect evening for a good game of football. Our opponents this evening was Black Falcon SC, one of the teams participating in the Chinese League 2008.
With an important game coming up this Wednesday, the dynamic management duo of Max and Mike decided to take it easy for this match and play 4-4-2 with Keong, Adrian, Alex and Aaron anchoring the defence with Siang, Au, Jason and Tee Oon making up the mid-field quartet. Heng and Keon spearheaded the attack for this game.
The match started and we were pressing the opposition from the get-go. Ramblers seemed to be "parked" in the opposition half and we were enjoying it. Only some woeful finishing and good keeping from the opposition custodian kept our attacks at bay. And little did we know that we were going to pay for our bluntness up front. A rare counter-attack down their left resulted in a neat clearance by Aaron for a throw-in. But quick thinking by an opposition player set their winger down our right which left our entire defence disoriented. A harmless looking delivery rolled across our penalty area and with our defence still trying to regroup and organize ourselves, their unmarked right-back sent in a cross that was toe-poked, somewhat fortuitously, to an advancing striker to smash home from barely 3 yards out! Our response was encouraging with our players taking more initiatives trying to pull us level but with no effect.
Second-half saw the introduction of Chris, Seng, Boon Wooi and Benni, whom was making an eagerly awaited return from a back injury. The result was no different as we picked up from where we left and continued searching for that elusive goal. And when it finally arrived, it came from perhaps the unlikeliest of sources. Keon's deft lay-on was met by Jason's excellent left-footed shot that found the back of the net from just outside the penalty area to tie the game at 1-1. After that goal, it was all Ramblers for the remainder of the match. Unfortunately, Black Falcon held on aggressively for a draw and we didn't want to stress ourselves out either, saving our energy for the game against Youngster United "A" on Wednesday. Final score: 1-1
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5 comments:
lolz ramblers cant win without their tough tackling skipper(chard) and playmaker(pei)? come on guys~! we're not like liverpool(one man team)..i can see our players play better.. i heard that some of the payers quarrel among themselves? when can this issue stop? i seriously hope we wont quarrel during the game.. always remember this, we win as a team and lose as a team.. give more and expect less.. =) hope there's more to come fr RAMBLERS & ORANGE..
actually we give face to pei and derek's ex team lah...
lolz...is that true.. i hope it's true.. coz i tot our team missed the pin point cross fr the skipper :P
Don't have to give face if Tony's not there...!
ala its because the flying winger is out injured.lol just kidding.we just din convert our chances
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