Sunday, February 17, 2008, 7:13 AM
on sat, my team (elias park fc) was at toa payoh stadium to play against balestier khalsa's prime league team. at first we thot we were playing the sleague team and i was kind of excited coz i wanna see where my standard is at. but when i reach there, i didnt see my ex-coach (nassa)'s famous van and also the players tat i saw are like not sleague players except for a few of them only lar. that was when it kind of become anti-climax for me. but nevertheless, i still stay focus on the game. it was so called our first pre-season match although we had played against div2's kaki bukit but that we around 3 weeks ago already. during the warm-up i saw a few familiar faces. (kiat & heng) hehe.. i look here and there. the whole bkfc prime team looks so unfamiliar and weird. haha..there so little chinese players in the team and also all of them are so new (from COE u-18). haha.. it just so weird!
once the match gets underway, that we went we played one hell of the good match. we had faizal fahdil who was playing his first game for elias park and also was bkfc last season's sleague player playing for us at the left wing. he will be an asset for me tis year as i hope i can score more goals from his wonderful crosses. the overall of this match i say we were a better team. we created chances after chances but failed to captalise on it. the main culprit... was me... ;( hahaha.. i miss quite a few chances in the 1st half but guess what. i still end up scoring one before the 1st half ended. btw,we were down 1-0 someway in the middle of 1st half but we showed our characters and fightback. the equaliser came from the team play. we pass the ball from the middle of the park to the right mid(mimi) and he tease the defender abit before sending a delicious ball into the penalty box and it was me was ran towards near post and tap it into the back of the net using my left leg outside foot. haha! feeling was good but too bad it was just a friendly match. nothing much significant about it lar. haha... so we ended the first half 1-1. i only lasted around 15 mins of the 2nd half after being replace. i thot i can score again after our team was awarded a penalty but i knew one of my teammate always wan a piece of everything and i asked him before i took it whether he wanted it or not as he was lying down on the ground in pain. haha.. as i expected, he wants it so i just pass the ball to him. if he scores, we would lead 2-1 but he failed to score. and the score still tie at 1-1. heng guess the correct way and made a great save. but victory will not elude us as we managed to score the sucker punch late in the match. 2-1 was the score. yup... we won. but we should not be over happy abt it becoz bkfc's prime team were not reali that good. they are made up mostly of youngsters who are goin to play their first year in the prime league. only a few of them had experience lor. our next task was sun as elias park also got another friendly match. but this match tat i just played just now was kind of crap lar. we won by some rugby scoreline lor. i dun even rem how many we score. we were playing against an uncle's team. they cant run much lor. our every attack looks like scoring man. waste of time. but this thur, it will be a very good match. we are playing against tampines rovers prime team. a few of their sleague players would be comin down playin for them too. it would be great to see whether how our elias park fare against them. haha.. we just hope for the best on thur then. stay tune ;)
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