RHB Singapore Cup Round One results

RHB Singapore Cup 2010 Round One
Young Lions 2-0 Home United

Scorer: Fairoz Hasan (5'), Khairul Nizam (52') 

Young Lions
Izwan Mahbud (GK), Madhu Mohana, Safuwan Baharudin, (Afiq Yunos) Fazli Ayob, Hafiz Abu Sujad, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Hariss Harun (C), (Luka Savic) Izzdin Shafiq, Seo Su Jong, (Gabriel Quak) Fairoz Hasan, Khairul Nizam, (Shahfiq Ghani)
 
Home United
Ridzuan Fatah Hasan (GK), Juma’at Jantan, Rosman Sulaiman, (Azhar Sairudin) Shariff Samat, Shahdan Sulaiman, (Sherif El-Masri) Shi Jia Yi, (Firdaus Kasman) Firdaus Idros, Shahril Ishak(C), Isa Halim, (Faizal Samad) Naufal Omar Ashiblie, Choi Chul Woo

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Balestier Khalsa 2-1 Geylang United

Scorer: K Vikraman (38', 45') / Peter Tomko (72')

Balestier Khals
Joey Sim (GK), Paul Cunningham, Daniel Hammond (C), K Sathiaraj, Ishak Zainol, Poh Yi Feng, Anantha Rajan, (Syafiq Zainal) Nurhilmi Jasni, (Andrew Tan) K Vikraman, Vitor Borges, (Syaqir Sulaiman) Rivaldo Costa

Geylang United
Siddiq Durimi (GK), Salim Rahim, Walid Lounis, Rastislav Belicak (C), Adrian Dhanaraj, (Yasir Hanapi) Vasile Ghindaru, (Hafiz Rahim) Syed Thaha, Shah Hirul, Syed Fadhil, (Masrezwan Masturi) Itimi Dickson,
Peter Tomko
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South Melbourne 2-1 Gombak United

Scorer: Daniel Vasilevski (12') Joseph Youssef (38') / Agu Casmir (28')

Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Bah Mamadou (C), Obadin Aikhena, Jeremy Chiang, Hamqaamal Shah, (Fazli Jaffar) Fabian Tan, (Zulkiffli Hassim) Ruhaizad Ismail, Goran Subara, Fazrul Nawaz, (Chang Jo Yoon) Agu Casmir, Park Kang Jin

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SAFFC 3-5 Bangkok Glass

Scorer: John Wilkinson (6', 41'), Federico Martinez (Pen 56') /Anawin Jujeen (4'), Sutee Suksomkit (59', 67'), Chatree Chimtale (78'), Paul Bekombo (90') 

SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK) (C), Razaleigh Khalik, Daniel Bennett, Ivan Lovric, Niklas Sandberg, Ahmad Latiff (C), Noh Rahman, John Wilkinson, Federico Martinez, (Mustaqim Manzur) Indra Sahdan, Taisuke Akiyoshi

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Phnom Penh Crown 1-2 Etoile FC

Scorer: Keo Sokngon (Pen 35') / Frederic Mendy (45', 55')

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Sengkang Punggol 0-1 Albirex Niigata (S)

Scorer: Ryuta Hayashi (50')

 Sengkang Punggol
Fadhil Salim (GK), Sim Li Ming, Shahir Hamzah, (Sobrie Mazelan) Zul Nor Farahin, Jordan Webb, Nor Azli Yusoff (C), Faizal Amir, Duncan Elias, Abdoulaye Diallo, Mamadou Diallo, (Farizal Basri) Ryan Fante
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Tampines Rovers 2-1 Woodlands Wellington

Scorer: Akihiro Nakamura (47') Aliff Shafaein (112') / Abdelhadi Laakkad (56')

 Tampines Rovers
Hassan Sunny (GK), Seiji Kaneko, Park Yo Seb, Zulkarnaen Zainal (C), Akihiro Nakamura, Imran Sahib, (Jufri Taha) Aliff Shafaein, (Satria Mad) Shukor Zailan, (Zahid Ahmad) Ismadi Mukhtar, Aleksandar Duric, (Ahmed Fahmie) Jamil Ali

Woodlands Wellington
Fajar Sarib (GK), Anaz Hadee, Kazuki Yoshino, (Azlan Alipah) Sahairi Ramri, Luis Eduardo Hicks, Winston Yap, Syed Karim, (Asraf Rashid) Sazali Salleh, (Shahri Musa) Guntur Djafril, Noor Ali (C), Abdelhadi Laakkad

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Beijing Gouan (S) 1-2 Kitchee

Scorer: Li Tixiang (15') / Cheng Siu Wai (67') Michael Cheng (111')

Eagles open 5-point gap

Geylang United have further secure their grip of third as they open up a 5-point gap between third and fourth with a win 1-0 over Beijing Gouan (S) at Yishun Stadium.

It came courtesy of their Slovak forward Peter Tomko as he grab his 8th goal of the season.

With that result, the Eagles will close out May undefeated in the league as their next league game is in June with their last defeat coming on April Fool day when they lost 0-3 to Home United. (How irony)

It has been a good two months for the Eagles in the league and they will be hoping for the same when they defend their Singapore Cup next week against Balestier Khalsa.

Geylang UnitedYazid Yasin (GK), Salim Rahim, Walid Lounis, Jonathan Xu, Rastislav Belicak (C), (Adrian Dhanaraj) Vasile Ghindaru, Syed Fadhil, Shah Hirul, (Yasir Hanapi) Itimi Dickson,
Peter Tomko, (Fabian Kwok) Hafiz Rahim

Indra goal not enough for Champions

It appear the end of the road for SAFFC this season as they failed to make up ground on leaders Tampines Rovers, who still lead them by 12 points.

This was despite a great start as Indra score in the Warriors first attack from the every start of the match. It was his first goal in 6 matches in all competition and, more importantly, it took the former international ever closer to 200 domestic goals.

He now need only four more goals to reach 200 domestic goals (but it will take four to reach the official S-league 200 as league Cup goals are not counted)

But for this match, it was as good as worthless thanks to defender Syaiful Iskandar, recruited from Woodlands Wellington, as he was a disaster for the Warriors in this important game in the league.

He not only failed to keep tab on Balestier Khalsa Brazilian Vitor Borges and thanks to two harsh challenges, he was send off as he picked up two yellow.

The Tigers will no doubt 'credit' this draw to him while Richard Bok 'curse' as there was still nearly 50 minutes to play when he was send off.

So despite playing much better than the Tigers for much of the match, the champions could only dream of what might have been as Anantha Rajan scored for the Tigers with two minutes to go.

Balestier Khalsa 
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (GK), Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, Paul Cunningham, Daniel Hammond (C), K Sathiaraj Syafiq Zainal), Ishak Zainol, K Vikraman, Syaqir Sulaiman (Anantha Rajan), Nurhilmi Jasni (Andrew Tan), Vitor Borges, Rivaldo Costa

SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK) (C), Syaiful Iskandar, Ivan Lovric (Razaleigh Khalik), Daniel Bennett, Hafiz Osman, Noh Rahman, John Wilkinson, Mustaqim Manzur, Park Tae Won, Indra Sahdan (Erwan Gunawan), Taisuke Akiyoshi

Elite footballers from ITEs learn National Syllabus

FAS website have reported on the progress of the National Football Syllabus introduced by our Technical Director Slobodan Pavkovic as the Serbian, appear to shrug off attacks from various vested interest groups (After all, what is more important. Our youths and, no doubt, Spore football future or the vested interest groups and their way to demise), teach 30 elite footballers from various ITEs selected to undergo the National Football Syllabus.

Pavkovic demonstrated five basic moves from the Syllabus and supervised their session. The 30 footballers will then practice and act as mentor to demonstrate the moves to their peers during their Physical Education lesions.

DVDs of the basic moves will also be distributed to the various ITEs that will play them during school hours in the canteen for students to familiarize and practice the moves.

More photos at FAS website

SAFFC featured on FIFA show Futbol Mundial

SAFFC performances in the ACL group stage from the last 2 years have seem them featured on FIFA show Futbol Mundial

Here is the clip from youtube

YOG draw

Singapore Schedule

Singapore vs. Zimbabwe
August 13, Jalan Besar Stadium

Singapore vs. Montenegro
August 19, Jalan Besar Stadium

Shahril Ishak rescue Home and Assistant Lee

Home United saw Singapore international Shahril Ishak brace help saved what remain of their season and no doubt the job of Korean coach Paul Lee as well.

Assistant Lee once again show what a masterpiece he has on his hand with the reconstruction of Home United as they gave up a two-goal lead, with Shi Jiayi and Shahril Ishak scoring in the first period, with Beijing's Tan Tiancheng hitting a double in a 10-minutes spell.

This is not the first time Home United have 'achieved' that and for me, it make a mockery of Home United fitness regime under Assistant Lee; who is rumored to be so strict on fitness that he has already thrown out two star players.

If they were on a strict fitness regime, the question is why Home United players appear to be losing steam in the second period so often this season for in his game they 'lost' 2-1 in the second period and the game before that, against Young Lions, they 'lost' 2-0.

Has he failed to take into account Singapore weather and believe games can be played like in Korea where they can start games at 1 pm (Try that in Spore and even the Koreans will be finished by the end of it)

No matter what, it is clear Shahril Ishak, who is having an inspired season, has rescue Assistant Lee this time around against the Chinese side but how many times can Home afford to throw away games in the second period.

It cannot go on and he must know that as Suwon, his former club, have seem their coach resigned due to terrible play and even worse results as fans refused to turn up until the coach is gone.

The night after that, the Bulls crushed Sengkang Punggol 3-0 at the Jurong West stadium with goals from Hamqaamal Shah, Agu Casmir and Fazrul Nawaz.

Home United
Ridzuan Fatah Hasan (GK), Juma’at Jantan, (Firdaus Idros) Ismail Yunos, Shariff Samat, Valery Hiek, Rosman Sulaiman, Shi Jia Yi, (Sherif El-Masri) Shahril Ishak(C), Isa Halim, Shahdan Sulaiman, Choi Chul Woo

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Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Jaslee Hatta (C), Bah Mamadou, Obadin Aikhena, Jeremy Chiang, Hamqaamal Shah, (Nurizam Azman) Zulkiffli Hassim, Goran Subara, Fazrul Nawaz, (Chang Jo Yoon) Agu Casmir, Park Kang Jin (Shafuan Sutohmoh)

Sengkang Punggol
Fadhil Salim (GK), Sim Li Ming, ((Zul Nor Farahin) Jala) Jasper Seet, Jordan Webb, Nor Azli Yusoff (C), Faizal Amir, Duncan Elias, Mamadou Diallo, (Farizal Basri) Sobrie Mazelan, Murphy Wiredu, Ryan Fante

Shahril mistake see Stags edge Champions

SAFFC keeper Shahril Jantan make a crucial mistake 6 minutes from time that saw Tampines Rovers walk away from Choa Chu Kang with all 3 points.

He saw a tame shot from former SAFFC legend Aleksandar Duric go under body and into the net as he bewilderingly pointed to the Choa Chu Kang pitch for anybody looking in his direction.

The pitch was in a terrible state as pointed out by BoLASEPaKO but it still remain he should have his whole body behind the shot for it is clear by the time he did that, the ball had already swirled past him from under his body.

It is not a good way to showcase your case you should be with the Lions at Serbia for a game of such magnitude with champions versus, possibility, now Champions-elect.

A night after that, Geylang United fall further behind in the title race as they drew 0-0 with the Young Lions at Bedok Stadium while Etoile Fc continued to keep pace with the Stags by destroying Woodlands Wellington 2-0, with goals from Matthias Verschave and Kevin Yann, at the Woodlands Stadium.

SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK) (C), Niklas Sandberg, Daniel Bennett, Ahmad Latiff, Noh Rahman, John Wilkinson, Mustaqim Manzur (Hafiz Osman), Park Tae Won (Syaiful Iskandar), Indra Sahdan, Taisuke Akiyoshi, Federico Martinez (Erwan Gunawan)

Tampines Rovers
Hassan Sunny (GK), Seiji Kaneko, Benoit Croissant, Zulkarnaen Zainal (C), Akihiro Nakamura, Imran Sahib, (Zahid Ahmad) Aliff Shafaein, Shukor Zailan, (Jufri Taha) Ismadi Mukhtar, Aleksandar Duric, (Khairul Amri) Jamil Ali

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Geylang United(Yazid Yasin) Toh Guo' An (GK), Salim Rahim, Walid Lounis, Jonathan Xu, Rastislav Belicak (C), (Yasir Hanapi) Vasile Ghindaru, Syed Fadhil, Shah Hirul, (Masrezwan Masturi) Syed Thaha,
Peter Tomko, Hafiz Rahim

Young Lions
Jasper Chan (GK), Afiq Yunos, Shakir Hamzah, Hafiz Abu Sujad, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Hariss Harun (C), (Luka Savic) Izzdin Shafiq, (Eugene Luo) Seo Su Jong, (Gabriel Quak) Fairoz Hasan, Khairul Nizam, (Shahfiq Ghani) Fazli Ayob

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Woodlands Wellington
Fajar Sarib (GK), Anaz Hadee (C), Kazuki Yoshino, Sahairi Ramri, Luis Eduardo Hicks, Winston Yap, Syed Karim, (Nigel Vanu) Asraf Rashid, (Sazali Salleh) Shahri Musa, (Rizawan Abdullah) Guntur Djafril, Abdelhadi Laakkad

Update to Head to Head - Asia (Menu)

With the conclusion of the group stage of the ACL and AFC Cup, here are the update to Head to Head - Asia (Menu) Before the start of the Singapore Cup next week.

Geylang United vs Hong Kong League Results

Stage	Home Team			Away Team	Date
AFC Cup	Tai Po	1	1	Geylang United	24/2/10
AFC Cup	Geylang United	1	1	Tai Po	20/4/10*

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* Played at Jalan Besar Stadium

Geylang United vs V-league Results

Stage	Home Team			Away Team	Date
AFC Cup	Da Nang	3	2	Geylang United	17/3/10
AFC Cup	Geylang United	1	1	Da Nang	27/4/10*

* Played at Jalan Besar Stadium

S-league Preview

Last week Preview - 3 right with 2 perfect score and 3 wrong

SAFFC vs Tampines Rovers
This could well end as a draw with both sides lacking firepower. The leaders are set to miss Qiu Li who is suspended and Khariul is not likely to return so soon. That leave them with Duric and Aliff and all 6 of Duric goals have come against teams in the bottom half of the table while Aliff have only 1 goal to his account. The Champions is not in much better shape as Indra, after a good start, have not scored in the last 5 in all competition while Martinez have yet to score from open play in the league. The standby strikers like Park, Wilkinson and Taisuke are also not scoring enough. That why both teams may be more cautious than usual as they cannot afford to go behind as they cannot be sure they can stage a comeback considering how strong each other are. 0-0 draw

Geylang United vs Young Lions
Go against the Eagles at own perils. That is their message to anyone who still doubt them. Yes, they are still not adventurous enough but they have enough firepower to get goals and their defence is tight enough to fence out teams. The Cubs will not be strong enough to stop the Eagles. 2-0 to the Eagles

Woodlands Wellington vs Etoile FC
Do the bottom side believe they can stop Etoile FC when they have failed to stop leaking goals against sides even weaker than the French. If they cannot stop the French from scoring then they cannot hope to get anything from this match and it is just a matter of whether the French can get more than their usual 1 goal. 1-0 to Etoile FC

Home United vs Beijing Gouan (S)
A chance for revenge. Nah. Not under Assistant Lee. I see him continuing to do badly enough until Home management finally see there is no hope like the Jason Withe era. He is capable of doing that. So, go Beijing. 2-1 to Beijing

Gombak United vs Senglang Punggol
After a great result against leaders Tampines Rovers, is it back to square one for the Bulls against the Dolphins. Not if they keep the local strikeforce of Fazrul and Agu and drop the Korean. Chang have been given his chance and he has proven he cannot led the Bulls attack but a half-fit Agu can and with the speed of Fazrul, they can trouble the opposition defence; especially against the likes of Dolphins who do not seem to deal well when attackers run at them. That why they may end the 'cruse'. 2-0 to the Bulls

Balestier Khalsa vs SAFFC
The Champions will have no other choice than to win this one, no matter the results against the Stags. They need the points and the reinforcement that is coming in the transfer window is a week away. Until then, they cannot lose sight of the Stags so they have to pick up points against the likes of the Tigers. It win or bust and they have dealt with such pressure and they can do it. 2-1 to the Champions

Beijing Gouan (S) vs Geylang United
After the Cubs, come the youngsters of Beijing and it is a good deal of hands for the Eagles. They have more rest and, no doubt, the better team. That why, it looked like a good schedule for the Eagles if they are to play 2 matches a week. One problem is the Yishun pitch is shit and the caretakers at the Stadium (So wake up and as least have grass on the field, not mud, considering SSC revamp the stadium a few months ago) are clearly not doing their job so it will be difficult to play any football. Long ball may be tactic of the ball but luckily they have Peter Tomko. 2-0 to the Eagles.

Eagles cement third spot

Geylang United are in unfamiliar territory, or familiar territory if one looked at their history, as they defeated Balestier Khalsa 2-0 to cement their hold of third spot.

Ever since the end of the 2003 season, the Eagles have fallen from their spot as one of S-league Big 3 - to be taken over by Tampines Rovers - and now, the Eagles are signaling they are ready to expand that group.

Last season they won the Singapore Cup, their first trophy in 9 years, and this season, they have build on that in the league as they seek to finish in the top 3 position - a spot once reserved for them as they only finished outside that in 2 of the first 8 seasons - for the first time in 7 years.

Few could have imaged they will do it this year but the results and, more importantly, the table do not lie.

They are now 4 points clear of the champions, who are in fourth place, and just another 4 points behind Leaders Tampines Rovers.

They achieved that by winning their fifth game in 6 matches as Syed Fadhil and Peter Tomko send the Tigers crashing at Toa Poyah Stadium.
Balestier Khalsa
Joey Sim (GK), Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, Paul Cunningham, Daniel Hammond (C), K Sathiaraj, Ishak Zainol, K Vikraman, (Syaqir Sulaiman) Anantha Rajan, (Poh Yi Feng) Nurhilmi Jasni, (Andrew Tan) Vitor Borges, Rivaldo Costa

Geylang UnitedToh Guo' An (GK), Salim Rahim, Walid Lounis, Adrian Dhanaraj, Rastislav Belicak (C), (Jonathan Xu) Vasile Ghindaru, Syed Fadhil, Shah Hirul, (Masrezwan Masturi) Itimi Dickson,
Hafiz Rahim, (Yasir Hanapi) Peter Tomko

Stags played out 3-3 thriller with Bulls

Tampines Rovers staged a remarkable comeback at Jalan Besar Stadium, after they have gone down two goals down in 16 minutes, and nearly snatched a winner themselves if not for Gombak United own remarkable comeback.

Right from the start, the pace of the game was set at a fanatic pace with Fazrul Nawaz scoring as Korean Park Kang Jin whip in a corner and the Singapore international escape his marker to rise and head past his national teammate Hassan.

Minutes later, an own goal (But credited to Bulls Zulkiffli Hassim by S-league despite it taking a big deflection off Zulkarnaen Zainal to go past Hassan Sunny) from the Stags from a Bulls counterattack saw the leaders down by two goals.

The Stags were rattled and unable to answer the Bulls so Stags coach Vorawan Chitavanich make an early change as Khairul Amri came on with just half an hour gone.

But, Khairul, the hero of Tampines Rovers on so many occasion this time, had no chance to make any impact as he injury himself just 10 minutes later and have to go off to be replaced by Jamil Ali.

The Stags now looked down and out but at this point they staged the start of the comeback as Japanese Seiji Kaneko scored at the stoke of half time with a thunderous volley off Shukor Zailan corner.

In the second period, both sides went for it as the Stags seek an equaliser while the Bulls go for a killer third as the match swing back and forth.

It was the Stags who got it, with 20 minutes left to play, when Qiu got the ball and went past his marker to have the place to smash in a screamer from the edge of the box.

The pendulum has now swing to the Stags and they pressed the Bulls back for the rest of the match.

Just when it looked like the Bulls will hold out, an own goal came as Bah Mamadou directed Qiu’s corner into his own net in stoppage time.

It looked over but nobody told the Bulls, especially Agu Casmir, as immediately, they won a corner and from that, Agu scrambled the ball into the net in remarkable fashion.

It was one the best of the game and Starhub and MediaCorp got it right to telecast it on LIVE TV.

Tampines Rovers
Hassan Sunny (GK), Seiji Kaneko, Jufri Taha, Zulkarnaen Zainal (C), Akihiro Nakamura, Imran Sahib, Aliff Shafaein, (Zahid Ahmad) Shukor Zailan,((Jamil Ali) Khairul Amri) Ismadi Mukhtar, Aleksandar Duric, Qiu Li

Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Jaslee Hatta (C), Bah Mamadou, Obadin Aikhena, Jeremy Chiang, Hamqaamal Shah, (Ridhwan Jamaludin) Zulkiffli Hassim, Fazrul Nawaz, Agu Casmir, Park Kang Jin, (Chang Jo Yoon) Shafuan Sutohmo

'Assistant' Lee Home fall 1-2 to Cubs

If anybody doubt Home United season is not yet over then this defeat to the Young Lions at Jalan Besar more or less seal it.

Under the leadership of 'Assistant' Lee, Home is 'enjoying' a season of 'assistant' results like the one against Young Lions.

They can take the lead as when Choi Chul Woo score early for the Protectors and then gave it away with Hafiz Abu Sujad and Shahfiq Ghani scoring for the Cubs.

It is such results that tell us what an 'assistant' Paul Lee is.

So maybe, after the Singapore Cup, in two week time, against Young Lions again, Home United management will then finally decide it is best to rebuild early for next season.

After all, if they had spend last season rebuilding early, then they may not have hire 'Assistant' Lee as at this point, anybody is looking better than him - even Vincent Subramaniam.

Young Lions
Jasper Chan (GK), Safuwan Baharudin, Hafiz Abu Sujad, Shakir Hamzah, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Hariss Harun (C), (Abdil Qaiyyim)Izzdin Shafiq, Seo Su Jong, (Gabriel Quak) Fairoz Hasan, Khairul Nizam, (Shahfiq Ghani) Eugene Luo

Home United
Ridzuan Fatah Hasan (GK), Juma’at Jantan, Ismail Yunos, (Azhar Sairudin) Shariff Samat, Valery Hiek, Shahril Alias, Shi Jia Yi, (Firdaus Idros) Shahril Ishak(C), Isa Halim, (Zulfadli Zainal Abidin) Naufal Omar Ashiblie, Choi Chul Woo

Lions Serbian opponents

Here are the teams the Lions will facing on their Serbian training tour.

- Serbian Olympic team
- Serbia Superliga side OFK Beograd (Third place)
- Serbia Superliga side Spartak Zlatibor (Fourth place)