Allan Loh Bearing Down Towards Midah's Goal! Pic By Pei Ru.

In what was a hugely disappointing and shocking result, MyRAWK fell to our second straight defeat after the Garden Social League resumed from a month long “winter” break. Having previously won against Midah – the bottom positioned side, we were quietly confident of a good result as the team had grew by leaps and bound after 3 full months of playing together. Faith, lady luck and the gods of football had other plans for us.

With virtually a full squad to choose from, bar our utility man, Mike who was away on an overseas trip, Captain Adrian sent out a side with ample of speed and determination. From the kick-off, we controlled the game and was using our pace upfront to great effect. A perfect through ball sent Mufleh charging towards goal, only for the defender to bring him down in the peno box. Some how, the ref waved played on even though the tackler got no where near the ball.

Numerous chances came our way but somehow we missed them all.  Sitters were missed, posts were hit and certain goals were saved of the line by the finger tips of Midah’s keeper. The moment we dreaded the most came when in only their second serious attack of the 1st third, Midah scored with a long range shot from outside our peno box. Ryan Lai, our keeper dived to his right to stop the shot but unfortunately the ball bounced just in front of him and went over his out stretch  hands. Just before the break, Oscar attempted a spectacular half volley after he caught hold of the ball from a corner but his fierce shot flew wide off the goal.

The 2nd third started as the first, MyRAWK controlled the proceeding and was hell-bent on scoring the equaliser and more goals to win the game. Unfortunately, luck was not on our side and we continued to miss chances after chances. Allan Lee was left frustrated as he missed numerous sitters that only need a slight touch to head into goal.  Allan Loh hit the post with a header. Jaz and Syam had chances to score but some how with luck deserting them, all had their shots saved, blocked or just went a whisker wide.

It was all the same again in the last third of the game. Midah was fully pinned back and frantically trying to defend their slim one goal lead. MyRAWK managed to open up their defenses numerous time, only for last ditch tackles and blocks to deny us the goals. With time running out, the boys got frustrated and the challenges got more robust – Bai was booked  for excessive body contact. At virtually the last attack of the game, Rizal was left unmarked on the near post and managed to sneak in a shot across goal that was heading in, until the keeper somehow managed to tip the ball wide.

We have now dropped a spot to 6th on the league table and is equal on points with Predator and Midah and will be playing bottom-side DJ this Sunday. MyRAWK can ill afford to loose this match as we need to ensure our goal of achieving a top-4 finish is achieved. Let’s hope that lady luck and the gods of football will be on our side this time and we can score a few goals this time round.