AFC07 - From lions to stray cats

• 4thGenSin

  18 Jan 07, 17:30

  Asean Football Championship 2007
  
  From lions to stray cats
  
  The game yesterday between Singapore and Indonesia, was a slightly disappointing one, even though Singapore tops the table and qualified for the semis. After the Laos game, Alam Shah stated that he felt sorry for Laos and did not want to score, so many goals. I wonder if he was thinking the same thing during the match against Indonesia, last night. The match had its fair share of jokes, at one point during the game, Indonesia fielded a 12 men team, and it took the referee sometime to notice that error.
  
  The final score for the match was 2-2. The goals scored by Indonesia were all preventable, if only the defenders were more vigilant. Indonesia was playing intelligently frustrating Singapore, after they scored the equalizer during the 1st half of the game, by passing around the ball amongst themselves. The condition of the field was slightly damp because of the drizzling rain during the first 15 minutes, of kick off. I often find myself asking, are the foreign talent players in the Singapore team, of the same standard or a lower standard, then the players who were born and raised in Singapore.
  
  Maybe the FAS should look into foreign talents that are better than our local players, and not of the same level or even lower. During the second half of the match, after Indonesia scored their second goal, Singapore started defending all the way, till the full time whistle was blown. That reminded of the World Cup game between Trinidad and England. The Singapore players seemed to have lost their passion for the game when they argued amongst themselves, each time Indonesia came back from a goal down.
  
  The condition of the field did not help either. The game ended with the 20,000 crowd, at the National stadium feeling a little disappointed, that Singapore was not capable of keeping their lead. Mr. Ho from the FAS, once questioned the passion of the fans, what needs to be questioned is the passion of the players.
  
• rojak12

  19 Jan 07, 00:11

  Fren, this is a CUP game.
  
  You can give your views but please do not call our national team as stray cats.
  
  Indonesia has a population of 220 millions, we have 4 millions.
  
  Which player you think did badly?
  
  How much did you lose punting for a Singapore win? whahahaha....
• The man who was death

  19 Jan 07, 19:14

  shi jiayi and fahrudin needs to get more invovled in games.....bennett is our best foreign player although he's been in singapore since young.....
  
  fahrudin has potential to be a very good player for us
• fatslob

  20 Jan 07, 20:02

  Originally posted by The man who was death:

  shi jiayi and fahrudin needs to get more invovled in games.....bennett is our best foreign player although he's been in singapore since young.....
  
  fahrudin has potential to be a very good player for us

  I consider bennett Singaporean tho, it doesnt matter that he is caucasian. At least he's lived here almost all his life.
• a-Lost-9uY

  20 Jan 07, 20:05

  yeah Daniel is gd..
  a gd leftback
• nonameguy

  22 Jan 07, 23:27

  Thailand was barely better....... this year's standard is pretty low.