Whining Eleven: July 2009

After a Hectic few weeks... Finally i found some time to do some match reporting and updates.

Videos and Photos will be up soon but its too lag and therefore...

Then again...

Some weeks ago our team met with a downturn in luck and much of our matches didn't turn out to be satisfactory performance.

Some say its the jersey while some say its the morale and some say its this and that... But nonetheless what said is not an importance... the important thing is the team being able to pick ourselves up from the debris that we left off with and stage a spectacular performance in the subsequent match...

The turning point of the team comes when we met with Xianxi's friends team... Charlie's team and that was a point where trouble came in with much of our players down with injury...

Fronting the match with only 10 players on both team... it was actually us who are able to find the momentum faster than the opposition...but we are only able to shift our gears up to gear 2.... whereas opponents are already playing the footsie at a higher tempo....And soon both are giving the opposition teams a run for their money....

Ah fat and Zhen Quan mustered the defence while Rixian , Chai and aman rotated the role of Anchoring the midfield....Taran as usual dominated his spot on the right... but it was the opponent who took the lead....

However, A goal worthy of a goal of the season unleash from Chai put us level with the opponent.... A glorius strike from the heart of midfield that tuck superbly into the tight corner of the post...

IT was in the second half that with fatigue and heavy legs settling in... we start to lose our concentration.. A thunderous shot from outside penalty box and a well placed shot put the opponents 3-1 against us... A dip in form as we perceive this game to be... but with some reflection and thinkings... we decided that we need to improve...

The following week... upon reaching the pitch... we were greeted by a friendly sight of our ex team members in which a few of our players had a free transfer over...

An experienced veteran but yet very little stamina but are actually a bunch of hard hitting guys... However, it was the whinners who rain countless attacks on them and they were clueless for a while what hit them... But were kept at bay with the antics of their keeper....

A free kick from outside the penalty box slipped through the defence and beyond the reach of asen put the veteran guys at a 1-0 lead...

However it was cheeky shot from Lewis who did a backheel into the net who equalled the score... The play was tough and the going gets high but the defence held the forte with ah fat and Zhen Quan .... While the midfield partnership of Chai, Ke jang, Lewis , Rixian ,Ke jang, Taran and Twelve...Zonghui was a constant threat and would have gotten a few goals if not for his injury...

Middle of nowhere of the second half... Taran was released to go 1 on 1 with the keeper... However, for some peculiar reasons... the shot didn't got in and was squared to xianxi.... And Xianxi gladly returned the favour to put us 2-1 up....

Match 25 was a testament of a rejuvenated Whining Eleven when a healthy group of folks turn up very early for a pre-match warm up... It was a positive sign to see the guys so eagerly reaching the pitch for some pre-match warmup...

Our opponents turn out to be some pretty strong group of malays....

It only took 5 mins for Zonghui to latch onto a long ball and snitch the first goal with a typical and elegantly taken finish. However some defence lapse allowed the opponent to equalise and not long after that they took a long distance shot which took a horrid dip and brought the score to 2-1.... Down 2-1...We push ourselves to get the equaliser and it was once again zonghui whu terrorised the defence with the help of the midfield contigent of jumain, lewis , twelve , rixian and kejang to slip a nicley placed ball to xianxi for him to poach on the on rushing ball and we are equalled.

Went into 2nd half... with a strong heart and strong desire to come out the winners...However it was difficult for us to get back the ball for awhile as we struggled with some simple clearnace of the ball within the defence line... Our lapse of concentration resulted in a shot from the opponents to glide through the defence and into the net... we were 3-2 down with some 10-15 mins left...

Jumain...got the ball... At his normal self calm composed....effortlessly send the ball rolling into zonghui's path and zonghui took no second calling to put the ball high up into the net and put us level with the opponents....

A few decent attempt from Ke jang whu struck the post and zong hui who send the ball too high up...But took his last chance at goal that started from a counter attack and he calmly finished the opponent with a well taken shot...4-3...

It didn't take the referee long to call a halt to this breath taking game....As the pleasing sound of the final whistle rung in our ears...

A match we will not forget and a match that tells the world to start worrying... The whining eleven are back...

I think there was a jam-stop in the middle of the season.

Manager/Co-ordinator was away for a week so there was no updating in the report and the scorers.

However, following the humbling silencing by the Enthusiastic Young Lions, we decided there are lots of improvement to be made ofr our team, but that aside we have come quite a fair bit and shown that we may not be the best team but we are a young team with aspiration to go into something better.

Our opponent for Match 21 were a groupies of Melayus who are funky and funny wannabes who don't look very interested. True, it only takes us a short while to go up against them. Seriously.... i have forgotten who scored the goals but somehow i remembered that zonghui should have scored at least 1 goal and chai another goal... so lets just give it to the 2 of them having scored 1 goal each... if u remember who score let me know....

Our next match was the match with the familiar black and white team with the inspirational captain number 17... They manage to take the lead with a soft goal that slipped through us despite the good defending of Jin and Zhen Quan but we are unable to allow the goal to slip through.... We played pretty well with getting more passess and getting smoother with our attacking options.... Until we had a wayward ball that landed on Rixian's feet in which he did a Xabi Alonso to wham the ball in, the ball landed up on Taran's feet to put us 1-1...

A few desperate attempts for them to keep us at our bay as we aim to seek for our 2nd goal.... However the match ended off in 1-1 our first draw in Fu hua secondary school.

Don't be disheartened dudes, we can improve.... we are not missing our key players... in our team we don't have any key players every player is important and everyone plays a significant role in the team...

Next week guys at Fu hua secondary... we will try again to improve the fluency of our game and improve ourselves..