Prison Break

Jollilads 3 - 2 Prisons

Jollilads broke Prison’s FA Cup dreams with a well strategic plan tattooed on the drawing board of Michael Arasu (Coach). Having played and lost twice to Prisons, Coach and Jollilads were certain to make this 3rd clash nothing less than exhilarating and with only one objective in mind, Jollilads kicked off the first half.

Right from the first minute, Jollilads, beaming with confidence and enthusiasm gave Prisons an early scare with Fuhang, Winston and Manfred all coming close to scoring, only to be denied by some last minute scramble and goal line clearance from Prisons. It was not long before Jollilads punished Prisons for their slack defending. Winston intercepted a square ball from the Prison’s centre back, side-footed the centre back and unleashed a right footed shot leaving the keeper stranded. Jollilads continued to press forward in search for the second goal with surging runs from Manfred and Khai. One of which saw Manfred driving a low and hard cross that was well met by Winston at the near post only to be denied by a great reflex save from the Prison’s keeper. The half ended 1-0 with fears written on the face of some players for not making our chances count.

Prisons was determined to make a comeback worthy of a Div 2 Champions and indeed they came back. Within the first 10 minutes of the second half, a lapse in concentration from the Jollilads defence saw a cross wiped in from the right finding a prison’s player whom towered the Jollilads wall to head in their equaliser. It was not long before the prisons guards struck again, with Jolliads failing to clear a long ball pumped in, the prisons player latched on to a loose ball, and struck a half volley to the far right of Aziz.

Having squandered our lead, Jollilads was determined to go down fighting, chasing down every loose ball and closing down every prisons player giving them no time with the ball. And soon we were rewarded for all our hard work as Khai found himself in acres of space with only the keeper to beat. His shot was however blocked by the on rushing keeper but made no mistake with the rebound scoring from an angle so tight that rendered the scale degree inadequate. This sparked off the great “Liverpool” comeback and soon Jollilads was once again rewarded for their hard work. A great ball played from defence found Chris surging down the left flank, swinging in a left-footed cross (that would make Ryan Giggs proud) found the on rushing Winston at the near post who then glanced it into the far corner. Jollilads could have doubled their lead on a couple of occasion, with an effort from Zul being disallowed for offside. It was not long before the siren was sounded, signalling the end of the prison break.

Another great victory guys and definitely one of our best performing games this season. Lets continue to keep up and play well for the coming 2nd round FA Cup tie. Rest well guys!

YingNi!

Lineup: Aziz, Sudi, Aaron, Daowei, Chris, Manfred, Zul, Fuhang, Freoz (Kennard), Khai, Winston

Unused Subs: Andrew, Junrong, Tim, Tianci, JEROME, KOK SIONG

Injured in attendance: Weiming, Anand