Friday, November 16, 2007, 9:21 AM
it was our first serious friendly match after our team was trimed down to 25 players. only 22 players can be registered in the ivp tournament starting in dec. that means 3 players will be drop lor. our new coach (mike wong currently is away with his u-18 in a tournament in china) have arranged a few friendly match for our team. im expecting myself to be in the final 22 players list. i gota fight for my position. i dun wan to end up just sitting on the bench during the whole tournament. back to the match. we were playing in spore poly becoz our poly was having event on the stadium. we were up against the last year's semi finalist. we were trying some stuff that the coach have worked wif us during training session. i was quite disappointed coz i was not in the starting eleven. i eventually went into the match at the start of the 2nd half. i can say it was rusty for me lor. my controls are not consistent and overall i dun think its good lor. the whole team player was ok ok lor coz both side are playing like express train like that. alot of quick attacks and end up losing the ball easily. btw, i also expect more from myself. should have scored the winning goal after my header in the near post from a corner kick went narrowly above the bar. the match almost got into a free-for-all after some incident. i find it very stupid and just left the pitch and sat on our team bench until everything is calm down before returning to the pitch. haiz... in the end, the match ended in 0-0. it was a good workout for both side but i guess SP will feel more painful as we were very aggressive during the match. haha.. i even purposely elbow one of their defender after he got too close to me and reali irritate me. anyway, this game is over. just forget it and focus on this monday another friendly match against UWC at NP. hopefully i can score in that match.

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