Disappointing For Macallum Youth top striker Yong Tat

Macallum Youth VS GYM FC (23rd Dec 2007)
Scoreline : Macallum Youth 7 VS 1 GYM FC

It was a beautiful morning with GYM FC’s players arrived earlier than Macallum Youth . The match was suppose to begin at 8.30am but due to photo’s session for Macallum Youth , the match was delayed to 9.00am . It was a good memorable day for Macallum Youth for the team has recruited yet another one of the reliable defenders in Macallum Neighbourhood , Alex (Tuah Pui Loon) . However it was also a disappointing morning for Macallum Youth as their top striker , Yong Tat skipped the match on that day . Hence , Macallum was forced to go through the photo session without him . After a few discussions among the team members , there was a suggestion of dropping him the team and therefore , his place in the team is currently insecured . The match started under the hot sun of 9.00am , with the game look good for both side of the teams . GYM made a couple of good through passes and over-lob , but the efforts were denied by Macallum Youth’s defensive players . As the match went on , Eugene took a powerful shot onto the goal but was denied by GYM’s goalkeeper . Luckily enough for Macallum Youth as their top striker was at the right place to pick up the rebound and chipped the ball gracefully passed the goalkeeper from the left . A few minutes later , Ah Boon picked up a nice pass from Kelvin who gave a good run from the left and smartly slipped the ball pass the bottom right of the opponent goalkeeper . At that moment , Macallum Youth looked comfortable with the scoreline 2-0 up . Not long after , a short dribbling then a sharp-but-slow through pass off 2 defenders from Ah Khee gave a space for Kelvin one-on-one with the goalkeeper and he made no mistake with a chip-ball over the goalkeeper from the left to make the gap bigger , 3-0 . GYM’s attacking force was quite venomous too at the first half . After 45 minutes , the match stopped at 3-0 . Both teams rested for 15 minutes and the game continued with both teams change sides of the field . Second half started with a few good chances from GYM FC which looked quite promising for the team to closer the gap but was wasted by poor finishing from the striking players . Just about 10 minutes , Eugene took a loose-ball from outside of the penalty box and gave a thundering-shot passed bottom left of the opponent’s goalkeeper and it added salt on GYM’s wound with the scoreline became 4-0 . A few minutes after Eugene’s goal , a blunder made by goalkeeper Taufiq gave GYM’s Wei Yang to pull one back with a clean tackle on Taufiq who tried to dribble pass him and the scoreline was pulled closer , 4-1 . After this , Macallum Youth put more effort on attacking rather than defensive . A flamboyant dribbling by Jimmy passed through 2 defenders and he passed the ball to Malik who smartly gave an ‘ole’ (nutmeg) to the goalkeeper made GYM’s day harder with the scoreline became 5-1 . The match went on with GYM proved to be a dangerous team too with their accurate passings and wide vision but somehow , they couldn’t make any fruit out of their hardworks . A quick passing from Or Khee to Eugene who directed the ball to Kelvin who then gave a lob over the defenders for on-the-run Jimmy . Jimmy controlled the ball down well and gave a great run toward the goalkeeper who was then tricked by Jimmy to fall onto the left while Jimmy slowly placed the ball pass the right of the goalkeeper and cooly slotted in to make the match 6-1 . As the match was journeyed to the end , Macallum Youth made the last significant attempt . T.Siang (coach/manager) who substituted W.Chun took the pass from his teammate and gave the ball nice placing to the right of the goalkeeper . Final score on that day , 7-1 . It was also a memorable day for Jimmy who met back his old school-mates who was his senior by one year , Wei Yang .