.. and the journey continues - so does our wining (:

Jollilads 2 - 1 Gambas

Amidst all the rivalry from the ongoing SUNIG competition, the four universities came together putting aside our differences to sealed a quarter finals spot in the FA Cup by beating Gambas 2-1. Knowing that a win would ensure Jollilads some television coverage, the boys were all hyped up for the game. (especially so after the recent crowning of Mr Durex to you know who)

Coach started off with a fresher attacking squad while keeping the SPEEDY attacking players like Khai and Winston plus Zul on the bench. Hoping to use their PACE (or the lack of) as a strategy in the later stages. Nevertheless, the match started off slow as many of us were still recovering from our recent SUNIG games. However it didn’t take long before Jollilads started to get momentum with weiming chasing down every ball that was sent to him. His efforts was soon rewarded as he manage to latch onto a loose ball from the defence before squaring it to Feroz who took a shot that was rebounded into Manfred’s path to slot it into the exposed goal. However, the lead didn’t last long as a lapse in concentration at the back resulted in the Gambas striker running free on goal. He then made no mistakes and smashed the ball past Aziz and into the net. It was unfortunate that the half ended 1-1 as we had a lot of chances in front of goal only to be denied by the iron giant Gambas keeper.

The second half was pretty much the same story with Jollilads having most of the possession. Again there were several chances for Jollilads to slot in our second goal, the closest being weiming’s one on one with the iron giant who stood tall and big denying any space for weiming to shoot through. As the match went on, our speedy substitutes started coming in with Winston coming in first, followed by Zul and Khai (order not according to speed of players). As if to prove coach's strategy to use our fast attackers to change the game, Khai was set free down the right, using his PACE he stormed towards the ball and send in a prefect cross that was met by the on rushing Winston who headed the ball into the top corner for Jollilads second of the night. Gambas then surged forward looking for the equaliser pressing the Jollilads defence, sending balls to almost every corner of the field but to no avail.

All in all, it was a good win again, we had lots of possession and made good use of the REALLY HUGE! but nice grass pitch. However, lets try to make better use of our possession like coach mentioned and lets make all our chances in front of goal count. This is especially critical for our next FA Cup clash with SRC who would definitely make us pay for our miss chances. For now, rest well boys.

YingNi!

Lineup: Aziz, Chris, Aaron, Sudi, Andrew, Feroz, Rafi, Kok (Winston), Manfred, Nadeem (Zul), Weiming (Khai)

Unused Sub: Tian Ci

Quote of the day: “we should be playing in the European league, we are playing more games than Liverpool or Barcelona.”

Arasu Advice: “don’t go play your inter-school or your inter-hall or your inter-COLOR games. Because come Saturday you will become COLORLESS”