DRM v F19 (The Real One!) Match Summary

This was our first official match in May and the fingers can only point at the DRM gaffa for slacking off (read: busy at work - sorry!) from his managerial duties. That didn't hinder the enthusiasm shown by the DRM squad though, as we turned up at BSRC that afternoon in our masses though we still somehow failed to come up with anyone who had experience between the goal posts. That job then fell onto Renny's 'not-so-safe hands' who despite having had several disastrous performances in goal previously volunteered again to do the same, promising not to be so bad at it this time round.

The match started well for us as we took advantage of the fact that we had plenty of experienced players on our side and we held control of possession quite easily. The first goal of the game however came against the run of play, as the pacy F19 forwards broke free of our defense and left Renny stranded in a 1-on-1 situation. The second came shortly after that from a similar play, with our defense holding the line high up the pitch, but failing to hold the offside trap from a low through ball from centre midfield. We were never gonna be able to depend on our keeper to save our skins there!

The pivotal point in the game came when another F19 counter-attack (by that point in the game, DRM were dominating play, but not scoring, whilst F19 would break one of our attacks, launch a counter and look extremely dangerous!) put their striker free on goal just inside the penalty box, but G Khai who was playing in centre defense somehow managed to launch his body in a suicidal tackle, which caught the ball cleanly and dispossesed F19. Our heads went back up again after that tackle, and almost immediately we felt like we had purpose in our game once more.

Rahim finally broke the deadlock, after Pachie who made the run in won a corner from the left wing. The resulting in-swinging corner was met with Rahim's brilliant half volley and there was nothing the keeper could do about that attempt. We managed to reduce the goal deficit to one and there was hope!

There were several other opportunities, mostly falling to Pachie who was looking very threatening with his tricky turns and skill. And it was Pachie who eventually equalised, when he was put through by Khai TSW on goal on the right, and his jink wrong footed the defender which put him in space for a thunderous effort which was only going to end up in the back of the net!

We made huge changes in the second half as there was virtually a new team waiting on the benches to replace the old tired legs from the 1st. The 2nd half team was alot younger and although inexperienced still managed to hold together very well, perhaps the only thing lacking was the killer instinct up front as we didn't really have anyone to get to the end of those crosses and through balls we were throwing forward! Hammry and Aizul worked tirelessly to create chances, and Rahimin's usual runs from everywhere caused the F19 guys some headaches. Credit also has to go to the students who proved that they are finally adjusting to their new team-mates and most of them ran their socks off (which is what students should be doing!).

We were only undone by dreadful goal-keeping in the second half, and i will shoulder the blame for that! Had it not been for the mistakes made we probably would've finshed the game with at least a respectable draw! Till the next match then... and hopefully we'll start with a proper goalie this time round :)