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Score : Tusser Ranger FC 1 - Dunman All Stars FC 1 The The From
Monday, July 31, 2006
Date : 30 Jul’06
Time : 9am
Location : Bedok Green Secondary School
Opponent : Dunman All Stars FC
Again
another week of frustration for Tusser Ranger. Another bad performance
continue to haunt us. Don’t know when will our bad patch be ending.
field at Bedok Green is really bad for playing. The ground is uneven,
very dry and hard and barely can see any grass around. Tusser played in
this game knowing we need to start winning games in order to catch up
with the leaders. However, we did not manage to string passes around to
good effect. Lossing possession seems to be a norm for us in these few
games. In a rare occasion, our midfielder, James passed the ball
forward, cutting through the entire defence of Dunman All Stars and
reached our striker, Ah Di. Instead of shooting the ball when he’s only
faced with the keeper, he trip on his own leg and we loose this good
opportunity to score. In the 30min, a corner was delivered in by Ah
Whye and it float across the goal area. In came Ah Lim, our top scorer.
We thought this is it, we’re finally taking the lead. The goal never
came, he missed the ball with a header attempt. The scoreline remain at 0-0 till half time.
second half started similar to first half with Tusser not able to
string passess together. In the 70min, a mixed up between our
mid-fielder lost the ball to the Duman midfielder. He cross the ball in
but our right back, Alex was not able to clear the danger. The Dunman
forward bring the ball in and our stopper, Chew Yang follow in trying
to stop him from crossing. He too did not manage to prevent the cross
coming in to our penalty box. The ball went pass everybody and our
defence stood rooted to the ground. It found a totally unmarked Dunman
Striker with a open goal. All he did was a simple tap-in and we asked
ourself, where’s our defender and where’s our marking.
this point onwards, Tusser step up their offensive searching for the
equaliser. Our hardwork finally got paid off in the 80min. Ah Koon got
the ball on the right wing. He crosses the ball towards the goal in
search of our striker. The ball did not find anyone and bounced off the
ground. This time, the bad ground condition help us a bit. The ball
bounce off awkwardly and managed to fool the Dunman keeper. He misjudge
the ball and it bounces away from him and into the goal. We’re not
complaining on how the goal was scored and happy that we managed to
equalise. With this goal, we go insearch of the winner but it never
came and our energy was almost drained dry. At the end, it’s a fair
result to both team with scoreline 1-1.
Scorers : Chan Koon Koon (80min)
Man of match : James Ang
