Wednesday, February 04, 2004

just did up a match report for the cpyf email thot i post it up here as well :) correct me where you think its correct

anyways on the 2nd of Feb, the CPYF trotted out onto the field at Blk 50 (known as The Beach) for its testimonial match for Walther.

players present were: A-drain, James, Ben, Joseph, Jeremy, Lingwei, Lingkang, Danny, Charles, Tim, Elvin, Hsien, Jeremiah (friend of both me and joseph), Eugene, Walther (of course!), Jessen, Kah Onn (who were both late..lol) and me.

cheerleaders present were: Angeline, Lisa, Grace, Rachael, Sarah and JQ.

started the match like this: gk-hsien, rb-danny, lb-charles, cb-adrain, james, cm-ben, jeremiah, rm, joseph, lm-me, fw-eugene, walther.
match kicked off from right to left with Pandan in the orange/yellow/red and Galilee in the blue. Initially we were intent on playing the short game but alas the pitch was way too muddy and water logged for that. And soon because the ball wasn't gettin to the midfield and forwards fast enough that the defence came under siege and before long we conceeded the first of many goals. 0-1 to Galilee! Play continued scrappily and although we did battle hard before long, a poor clearance led to Galilee's 2nd goal. 0-2! Oh boy! Now we were in trouble heh. Some re-organization was done but to no avail as we lost the midfield battle. and just before half-time, a deflection of one of our weary defence gave them their 3rd goal and morale dropped. 0-3! although i would consider ourselves as unfortunate not to get a couple of goals and even a penalty as we had a couple of chances off the woodwork or saved by the keeper or cleared off the line.
coming out of the break, we reorganised and changed our plan to a more direct and pressing game, startin the 2nd half with changes were gk-joseph, rb-lingwei, lb-charles, cb-kah onn, ben, rm-jeremiah, lm-danny, cm-jessen, walther, fw-eugene, me. 0-4! a lapse of concentration led to us conceeding a goal almost straight away after the restart. but then when things were lookin really down, the changes did start to work this time and before long, messy defence play on their part and good hold up of the ball by walther helped us get a foot back into the match. 1-4! then we all were lifted up and knew that we can make it back in. then its was the Bear show all the way, with a brace to complete his hat-trick in abt 10 mins. the score was now 3-4! then yet another powerful shot which the keeper did well to save but not enough to stop the ball from fumbling into my path which was a simple tap in 4-4! however that goal sparked off a couple of outcries for offside (which i have no idea what concieved them) and almost a beginnning of a fight which both sides did their best to cool down. maybe the team was somewhat shaken by that and then when the next shot came in from them, it took a wicked deflection ending up in the back of the net. 4-5! also joseph could do nothing abt the next 1 on 1 and the score was nw 4-6! (well 4-6 definitely looked much better than 0-3 haha..) then a strong push towards the end saw a top corner shot by jeremiah to make it 5-6! and then who else better then the guy we wanted to give the good bye to, to score and cap off a wonderful move by the team for the final goal in the dying minutes of the match other than walther! 6-6! What an exciting match! so the Man-of-the-Match goes to our top striker, Walther! and well done, guys!

haha..if only a couple more of you guys (stan, ian, mingsheng, etc etc) were there i would dare say we would have a greater chance of winning.

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