The Greens

REPORTED BY KEN WONG

Full Time: ODS 3 - 0 The Greens (Half time: 2 - 0)
Scorers: Yang Song(x02), Liang Han(x01)
Man Of Match: Yang Song

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Starting Line-Up
Keeper: Kumar
Def (L-R): Hairy, Kiran, Mark Penu, Ken Wong
Mid (L-R): Osman, Aidil, Irwin, Yang Song
Att: Liang Han, Vincent

After losing to us 9-1 in April this year (refer to that report here), The Greens wanted revenge, this time round, with their full squad as they claimed that for the previous game, half of the team were guest players.

Game started rather normally, with both sides seemingly evenly matched. ODS found it hard to break down the defence, often lacking the final magic touch. Thus much of the game was a battle of the midfield.
Hence, ODS did not manage to get much shots on goal.

On the other end of the field, Kumar seem to having an easy time, with hardly any saves to make as the tight defence between centre backs Kiran and Mark Penu made sure that not even a fly can get past them.

ODS finally got the lead through a brillant free kick from Yang Song.
With the ball about 20yards from goal, Yang Song lifted the ball over the defence. The ball went in off the back of the keeper after cannoning off the crossbar. Sheer class!

1-0

ODS got the second goal during a break, when Yang Song was released on the right, and he spotted the keeper out of position, and he attempted an audacious shot from the byline, one that proved too lethal, as the keeper had no chance of getting near the ball and was left red-faced as the ball flew over him and into the goal at the side netting.

2-0

ODS almost got a third goal, as Osman did well to cut the ball across goal, and Vincent who was nearest to the ball at the far post, just could not stretch his leg long enough to reach it.

Vincent then went out and in came Melvin. (Subsititution due to lack of match fitness by Vincent, nothing tactical)

Half Time

Second Half XI
Keeper: Kumar
Def (L-R): Tony, Mark Penu, Hans, Chi Man
Mid (L-R): Osman, Mark Teo, Melvin, Yang Song
Att: Liang Han, Elango

Second Half started with a huge change in ODS line-up.
But the effects were the same. The Greens struggled to have hardly any shots on goal.

But their defence were equally tight as well, as Liang Han was made to work really hard to "earn his keeps" today. He was often seen being shoved around today, (on other days, he would be the one throwing his weight around and pushing others off). The Greens last man matched Liang Han pace for pace, power for power, body for body. And there were even times when they had two markers on Liang Han.

But Liang Han still got his goal, though a bit comical, when the slightest touch from him had the ball spinning over the keeper, from only six yards out.

3-0

That was after Elango missed a glorious chance to score when he ballooned the ball over the on-rushing keeper.

ODS then made some major chances during the closing stages, Irwin in for Yang Song, Hairy in for Liang Han, Kiran in for Mark Penu.

The results stayed that way until the final whistle as both teams could no create much impact to break down the other team defence.