Uniform teams redeem themselves

Both Home United and SAFFC have redeem themselves as they won their respective matches after badly failing badly last time against their main rivals.

Home United defeated Gombak United with goals from FredericMendy and Indra Sahdan.

Ex-Warriors winger Mustaqim Manzur had reply for the Bulls.

As for SAFFC, they gave their title hopes a shot in the arm as they hand Leaders DPMM Brunei their second defeat in a row.

This was a tremendous victory as until now the Bruneian side had been unbeaten in their home Hassanal Bolkiah National all season.

International Fazrul Nawaz got both goals with Adi Said replying for the Brunei side.

In one other match, Tampines Rovers show Balestier Khalsa, S-league surprise package this season, how much they have to improve if they really wish to win the S-league crown this season.

The Stags defeated the Tigers 3-1 with goals from Sead Hadzibulic(2) and Jamil Ali.

Ruhaizad Ismail reply for the Toa Poyah side.

Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Nurullah Hussein, Ismail Yunos, Obadin Aikhena (C), Walid Lounis, Adrian Dhanaraj (K Vikraman), Hafiz Rahim, Mustaqim Manzur, Christopher Anderson, Jung Hee Bong (Julien Durand), Samuel Benjamin (Fairoz Hasan)

Home United
Nazri Sabri (GK), Rosman Sulaiman, Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, Shi Jia Yi (C), John Wilkinson, Firdaus Idros (Rhysh Roshan Rai), Masrezwan Masturi, Nor Azli Yusoff, Shotaro Ihata (Indra Sahdan), Frederic Mendy, Qiu Li
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SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK), Zulfadli Zainal Abidin, Razaleigh Khalik, Daniel Bennett (C), Marin Vidosevic, Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada, Shukor Zailan, Aliff Shafaeinm (Ruzaini Zainal), Mislav Karoglan (Matthew Abraham), Fazrul Nawaz
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Tampines Rovers
Sasa Dreven (GK), Anaz Hadee, Benoit Croissant, Ismadi Mukhtar (Jufri Taha), Fahrudin Mustafic, Ahmad Latiff, Imran Sahib, Jamil Ali (Ahmed Fahmie), Aleksandar Duric (C), Sead Hadzibulic, Gligor Gligorov (Sazali Salleh)

Balestier Khalsa
Zakariah Nerani (GK), Hamqaamal Shah, Paul Cunningham (C), Jaslee Hatta (Yusiskandar Yusop), Tengku Mushadad, Ruhaizad Ismail (Poh Yi Feng), Shafuan Sutohmoh (Patrick Paranjody), Goran Subara, Park Kang Jin, Zdravko Dragicevic, Zulkiffli Hassim

Albirex win third in a row

Albirex Niigata (S) won their third game in a row, including an important win against SAFFC, to keep up their charge for the 2012 S-league title.

They defeated Tanjong Pagar United 2-0.

Sato Masatake and Kunihiro Yamashita  got the goals

In another match, Geylang drew 1-1 with Woodlands with goals from Jozef Kaplan and Hussein Akil.

Geylang United
Yazid Yasin (GK) (C), Shahril Alias, Syed Fadhil, Jalal (Rizawan Abdullah), Stefan Milojevic (Amy Recha), Michael King, Shah Hirul, Ang Zhi Wei, Jozef Kaplan, Nurhazwan Norasikin, Mun Seung Man 

Woodlands Wellington
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (GK), Danny Chew, Duncan Elias, Fabien Larry Lewis, Daniel Hammond (C), Armanizam Dolah, Aloysius Yap (Shamsurin Abd Rahman), Farizal Basri (Goh Swee Swee), Moon Soon Ho, Hussein Akil, Neil Vanu
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TPUFC
Fajar Sarib (GK), Hafiz Osman, Delwinder Singh (C), Jonathan Xu, Azhar Ahmad, Hanafi Salleh, Asraf Rashid, Sudhershen Hariram, Hafiz Nor, Seah Si Hao (Abdul Rahim), Gilbert Bayonne

Uniform teams fall

 
Both Home United and SAFFC saw their title hopes hit as they lost their respective matches to title rivals.

Home United lost 0-1 to this season surprise package Balestier Khalsa with Zulkiffli Hassim getting the winner.

As for SAFFC, it was no different as Albirex Niigata (S) staged a comeback despite being behind three times and yet went away from Choa Chu Kang with all 3 points.

Shimpei Sakurada and Mislav Karoglan, twice, gave the Warriors the lead three time but was pipped back each time by Shuhei Hotta, Kawakami Norihiro and Yamakoshi Yasuhiro.

Then in injury time, Atsushi Shimono gave Albirex Niigata (S) the lead for first time and they went go to get that win.

Balestier Khalsa
Zakariah Nerani (GK), Hamqaamal Shah (Ruhaizad Ismail), Paul Cunningham (C), Jaslee Hatta (Yusiskandar Yusop), Tengku Mushadad, Shafuan Sutohmoh, Goran Subara, Park Kang Jin (Muhaymin Salim), Syed Thaha, Zulkiffli Hassim, Kim Minho

Home United
Lionel Lewis (GK) (C), Jeremy Chiang (Masrezwan Masturi (Rhysh Roshan Rai)), Kenji Arai, Rosman Sulaiman, Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, John Wilkinson, Firdaus Idros (Indra Sahdan), Nor Azli Yusoff, Shotaro Ihata, Frederic Mendy, Qiu Li
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SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK), Zulfadli Zainal Abidin,Noh Rahman, Daniel Bennett (C), Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada, Seiji Saito, Aliff Shafaein, Shukor Zailan, Fazrul Nawaz (Ruzaini Zainal), Mislav Karoglan

Muda to play their home games in Malaysia next season

CNA has reported Harimua Muda will be playing their home games in Malaysia next year.

The games will either be held in Johore or Malacca.

I think this is a good idea as I never know why the Malaysian side is based in Yishun for what in the first place and they should have played their home game in Malaysia from the start.

Afterall Brunei DPMM are based in their home back on Borneo Island. 

This is a good move in the right direction.

Next though, I have to ask if S-league will then have to continue to pay full subsidises to Muda as 1) they will be playing their home games in Malaysia 2) They may be sending a different team next season from what they promised.

Champions defeat League leader

If DPMM Brunei want the league title from the Champions,  Tampines Rovers, then they are in for a fight as the Eastern side show they are in no mood to give it up.

The Stags handed the Brunei side their second loss of the season and close up the gap on the league leader.

Indeed this was a valuable win as this season the teams only meet twice so the Stags have no better chance to close the gap on DPMM.

And they did it in dramatic fashion as Gligor Gligorov grabbed the winner in injury-time.

In other matches, Hougang end Jaguars run of wins as they defeated the Queenstown team 1-0 and Courts Young Lions defeated Woodlands Wellington 2-1.

Jordan Webb got the winner in the Jaguars- Cheetah matchup.

Faris Ramli and Nazrul Nazari got the goals that won all 3 points for the Cubs with Korean Moon Soon Ho replying for the Rams.

TPUFC
Fajar Sarib (GK), Hafiz Osman, Delwinder Singh (C), Azhar Ahmad (Seah Si Hao), Zahid Ahmad, Hanafi Salleh, Asraf Rashid, Takaya Kawanabe, Sudhershen Hariram, Syed Karim (Abdul Rahim), Hafiz Nor

Hougang United
Fadhil Salim (GK), Syaqir Sulaiman, Lau Meng Meng (C), Stanislav Vidakovic, Ante Barac, Azhar Sairudin (Sobrie Mazelan), Jordan Webb, Fazli Jaffar (Basit Hamid), Faizal Amir, Fazly Hasan, Mamadou Diallo
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Woodlands Wellington
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (GK), Danny Chew, Duncan Elias, Fabien Larry Lewis, Daniel Hammond (C), Guntur Djafril, Han Yiguang, Farizal Basri (Oswind Suriya), Goh Swee Swee (Shamsurin Abd Rahman), Moon Soon Ho, Hussein Akil (Aloysius Yap)

CYL
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Fazli Ayob (Haniff Sadique), Hafiz Abu Sujad (C), Aqhari Abdullah (Zulfahmi Arifin), Faris Ramli, Sherif El-Masri, Sufianto Salleh (Nazrul Nazari)
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Tampines Rovers
Sasa Dreven (GK), Anaz Hadee, Benoit Croissant, Ismadi Mukhtar, Fahrudin Mustafic, Ahmad Latiff, Imran Sahib, Jamil Ali (Ahmed Fahmie), Aleksandar Duric (C) (Hairulnazri Hanafi), Sead Hadzibulic (Ali Hudzaifi), Gligor Gligorov

Tampines defeat Muda

Tampines Rovers defeat Harimau Muda 3-2 at the Yishun Stadium.

Ismadi Mukhtar, Fahrudin Mustafic and Jamil Ali got the goals for the Stags with Thamil Arasu and Syahrul Azwari replying for the Malaysians.

In other matches, Tanjong Pagar United continue their good form as they won their match in a row as they beat Woodlands Wellington 1-0, Albirex Niigata (S) hit Gombak United with the same score and Home United beat Courts Young Lions 3-1.

French import Serge Souchon notch the winner for the Jaguars in the matchup against the Rams.

As for the White Swans- Bulls match up, it was Soya Toshikazu who got the winner.

For the Protectors-Cubs clash, it was the goals of Firdaus Idros and Frederic Mendy (2) which ensure all 3 points for the home side.

Jonathan Toto scored for the Cubs.

Woodlands Wellington
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (GK), Duncan Elias, Fabien Larry Lewis, Daniel Hammond (C), K Sathiaraj (Oswind Suriya), Armanizam Dolah (Han Yiguang), Guntur Djafril (Aloysius Yap), Shamsurin Abd Rahman, Goh Swee Swee, Moon Soon Ho, Hussein Akil

TPUFC
Fajar Sarib (GK), Hafiz Osman, Delwinder Singh (C), Jonathan Xu, Azhar Ahmad (S Vikneshwaran), Hanafi Salleh, Zahid Ahmad, Takaya Kawanabe, Serge Souchon, Aliff Shafaein, Jang Injun
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Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Nurullah Hussein, Ismail Yunos, Obadin Aikhena (C), Walid Lounis, Adrian Dhanaraj (Amin Rossady), Hafiz Rahim, K Vikraman, Christopher Anderson (Jung Hee Bong), Julien Durand, Samuel Benjamin (Fairoz Hasan)
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Home United
Lionel Lewis (GK), Kenji Arai, Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, Franklin Anzite, Shi Jia Yi (C), John Wilkinson (Shotaro Ihata), Firdaus Idros (Indra Sahdan), Masrezwan Masturi, Nor Azli Yusoff, Frederic Mendy (Rosman Sulaiman), Qiu Li

CYL
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman, Faritz Abdul Hameed (C), Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Shamil Sharif (Faris Ramli), Aqhari Abdullah, Benjamin Lee, Neil Vanu (Fazli Ayob), Sherif El-Masri, Jonathan Toto (Syafiq Zainal)
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Tampines Rovers
Sasa Dreven (GK), Anaz Hadee (Jufri Taha), Benoit Croissant, Ismadi Mukhtar, Fahrudin Mustafic, Ahmad Latiff, Imran Sahib, Ahmed Fahmie (Ali Hudzaifi), Jamil Ali (Davor Piskor), Aleksandar Duric (C), Gligor Gligorov

Warriors run end

SAFFC run of win have come to an end as they were held 2-2 by Geylang United.

This is a disappointing result as the Eagles have been in terrible form this season and have lost 2 of their last 3 games and gained only 1 point with no goals in those games.

Worse was the Warriors had taken a two-goal lead through Mislav Karoglan and Inui Tatsuro and yet they let it slip away as the Eagles staged their comeback.

First, the Eagles got themselves back into the game before the break as Korean Mun Seung Man got the goal and in the second period, substitute Amy Recha came off the bench to notch the equaliser.

In other matches, Courts Young Lions beat Hougang 2-0 with both goals from Sherif EL-Masri and Brunei DPMM beat Balestier Khalsa 3-1 with goals from Ivan Jerkovic (2) and Basiru Osman.

Park Kang Jin had reply for the Tigers.

SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK), Zulfadli Zainal Abidin, Noh Rahman, Daniel Bennett (C), Eddie Chang, Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada, Shukor Zailan, Mislav Karoglan, Fazrul Nawaz, Erwan Gunawan (Hafsyar Farkhan)

Geylang United
Yazid Yasin (GK) (C), Shahril Alias, Syed Fadhil, Ishak Zainol, Jalal (Nurhazwan Norasikin), Rhema Obed, Michael King, Ang Zhi Wei (Mubarak Ahamad), Jozef Kaplan, Mun Seung Man, Rizawan Abdullah (Amy Recha)
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Hougang United
Ridzuan Hasan (GK), Syaqir Sulaiman (Hasree Zais), Lau Meng Meng (C), Stanislav Vidakovic, Ante Barac, Azhar Sairudin (Ridhwan Osman), Jordan Webb, Fazli Jaffar, Faizal Amir, Ignatius Ang (Sobrie Mazelan), Mamadou Diallo

CYL
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman (Tajeli Salamat), Faritz Abdul Hameed, Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Fazli Ayob (Neil Vanu), Hafiz Abu Sujad (C), Aqhari Abdullah (Shamil Sharif), Faris Ramli (Benjamin Lee), Sherif El-Masri, Jonathan Toto
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Balestier Khalsa
Joey Sim (GK), Yusiskandar Yusop, Hamqaamal Shah, Paul Cunningham (C), Jaslee Hatta, Park Kang Jin, Syed Thaha, Chang Jo Yoon (Patrick Paranjody), Zulkiffli Hassim, Kim Minho (Andrew Tan), Muhaymin Salim (Tengku Mushadad)

Albirex and Balestier title charge halted

Both Albirex Niigata (S) and Balestier Khalsa, who have done excellent this season in the title race, have their charge on the title halted by bottom half sides.

Albirex Niigata (S) were held 1-1 by Courts Young Lions at the Jalan Besar stadium with both goals scored by the White Swans players but one of them was for the wrong side.

Soya Toshikazu had notch the goal for the right team as he equalised for his side after an own goal had given the Cubs the lead.

As for Balestier, they fell 0-1 to Tanjong Pagar with the winner from their Japanese import Takaya Kawanabe. 

CYL

Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Fazli Ayob (Sherif El-Masri), Hafiz Abu Sujad (C), Aqhari Abdullah, Faris Ramli (Neil Vanu), Shahfiq Ghani (Shamil Sharif), Sherif El-Masri
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TPUFC
Fajar Sarib (GK), Hafiz Osman, Delwinder Singh (C), Jonathan Xu, Azhar Ahmad, Hanafi Salleh, Zahid Ahmad, , Serge Souchon, Aliff Shafaein, Lee Joo Sang (Syed Karim)

Balestier Khalsa
Joey Sim (GK), Yusiskandar Yusop, Hamqaamal Shah, Paul Cunningham (C), Jaslee Hatta, Ruhaizad Ismail (Andrew Tan), Park Kang Jin, Syed Thaha, Patrick Paranjody (Chang Jo Yoon), Kim Minho, Muhaymin Salim (Tengku Mushadad)

Third in a row for Warriors

The Warriors are in their form of the season as they won their third game in a row as they beat Gombak 1-0.

It mean their once fading league title hopes are back on track as they make up ground on the teams above them.

They have Shimpei Sakurada to thanks for the win as he notch the winner in injury time.

In other matches, Home United defeated Woodlands Wellington 3-1 and Brunei DPMM crush Hougang 5-1.

Mendy Frederic got a hat-trick for the Protectors with Hussein Akil replying for the Rams.

Azwan Saleh and Shahrazen Said each got 2 goals with the remaining goal an own goal while Mamadou Diallo reply for Hougang.

Home United
Lionel Lewis (GK), Jeremy Chiang, Rosman Sulaiman, Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, Franklin Anzite (Hafiz Nor), Shi Jia Yi (C), John Wilkinson, Nor Azli Yusoff, Shotaro Ihata (Firdaus Idros), Frederic Mendy (Rhysh Roshan Rai), Qiu Li

Woodlands Wellington
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (GK), Danny Chew (Farizal Basri) , Duncan Elias, Daniel Hammond (C), K Sathiaraj, Edward Tan, Armanizam Dolah (Oswind Suriya), Shamsurin Abd Rahman, Goh Swee Swee, Moon Soon Ho, Hussein Akil (Guntur Djafril)
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Hougang United
Fadhil Salim (GK), Hasree Zais, Lau Meng Meng (C), Stanislav Vidakovic, Ante Barac, Azhar Sairudin (Ridhwan Osman), Jordan Webb, Fazli Jaffar, Faizal Amir (Fazly Hasan), Nurhilmi Jasni (Ignatius Ang), Mamadou Diallo
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Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Nurullah Hussein, Obadin Aikhena (C), Walid Lounis, Adrian Dhanaraj, Hafiz Rahim, Fairoz Hasan (Jung Hee Bong), Christopher Anderson, Nur Naiim Ishak (Shafuan Sutohmoh), Julien Durand (Mustaqim Manzur), Samuel Benjamin

SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK), Zulfadli Zainal Abidin, Noh Rahman, Daniel Bennett (C), Eddie Chang, Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada, Ruzaini Zainal, Shukor Zailan, Mislav Karoglan, Erwan Gunawan (Prakash Manikam), Hafsyar Farkhan

Tampines & Muda win their games

Both Tampines Rovers and Harimau Muda won their matches as they defeated Courts Young Lions and Geylang United respectively.

Tampines Rovers won 2-1 against Courts Young Lions with Jamil Ali getting the winner with the other goals being own goal.

Muda defeated Geylang 2-0 with goals from Wan Zack Haikal and D Saarvindran.

Tampines Rovers
Sasa Dreven (GK), Anaz Hadee, Benoit Croissant, Ismadi Mukhtar, Fahrudin Mustafic, Sazali Salleh, Ahmad Latiff, Imran Sahib (Ahmed Fahmie), Jamil Ali (Davor Piskor), Aleksandar Duric (C), Gligor Gligorov 

CYL
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Fazli Ayob (Neil Vanu), Hafiz Abu Sujad (C), Aqhari Abdullah, Shahfiq Ghani (Benjamin Lee), Sherif El-Masri (Faris Ramli), Jonathan Toto
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Geylang United
Yazid Yasin (GK) (C), Salim Rahim (Mubarak Ahamad), Shahril Alias, Syed Fadhil (Nurhazwan Norasikin), Ishak Zainol, Rhema Obed, Michael King, Ang Zhi Wei, Jozef Kaplan, Mun Seung Man (Zul Elhan Fahmi), Rizawan Abdullah (Amy Recha)

Warriors keep their title hopes on track

SAFFC have set their title hopes back on track after they defeated champions Tampines Rovers 1-0 at the Clementi Stadium.

This was a match the Warriors cannot afford to even draw even as they had regained their winning way last week when they defeatedHougang 1-0.

Before that, they had lost 2 of their 3 games and drawn the other one and were fading out of the title race with Brunei DPMM a distance away.

That why it was to their relief, last season top scorer and Player of the Year Mislav Karoglan got the winner as the minutes was clicking away.

In another match, the Jaguars shock Singapore Cup champions Home United by beating them 1-0 with the winner from Takaya Kawanabe.

Tampines Rovers
Sasa Dreven (GK), Jufri Taha, Benoit Croissant, Ismadi Mukhtar, Fahrudin Mustafic, Sazali Salleh (Ali Hudzaifi), Ahmad Latiff, Ahmed Fahmie (Fazil Zailani), Davor Piskor (Jamil Ali), Aleksandar Duric (C), Gligor Gligorov

SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK), Zulfadli Zainal Abidin, Eddie Chang (Razaleigh Khalik), Bah Mamadou, Daniel Bennett (C), Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada, Shukor Zailan, Fazrul Nawaz, Mislav Karoglan (Hafsyar Farkhan), Erwan Gunawan (Noh Rahman)
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TPUFC
Fajar Sarib (GK), Hafiz Osman, Delwinder Singh (C), Jonathan Xu, Hanafi Salleh, Zahid Ahmad, Serge Souchon, Takaya Kawanabe, Aliff Shafaein, Jang Injun, Lee Joo Sang

Home United
Lionel Lewis (GK), Jeremy Chiang (Rhysh Roshan Rai), Rosman Sulaiman, Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, Franklin Anzite (C), Firdaus Idros, Masrezwan Masturi (Qiu Li), Nor Azli Yusoff, Shotaro Ihata, Frederic Mendy, Indra Sahdan

Brunei DPMM recover winning way

Brunei DPMM return to their winning way after beating Woodlands Wellington 3-0 in Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah National.

The Brunei side had lost their unbeaten run after a 0-1 defeat against Home United

Shahrazen Said and Rodrigo Grahl (2) got the goals against the Rams.

In other matches, Albirex Niigata (S) drew 0-0 with Geylang United, Courts Young Lions beat Gombak 1-0 and Harimau Muda beat Hougang 3-1.

Sherif EL-Masri had scored for the Cubs.

Affizie Faisal and Thamil Arasu grab the goals for the Malaysians while Jordan Webb scored for the Cheetahs.

Geylang United
Yazid Yasin (GK) (C), Salim Rahim, Shahril Alias, Syed Fadhil, Ishak Zainol, Rhema Obed, Michael King (Amy Recha), Ang Zhi Wei (Mubarak Ahamad), Jozef Kaplan, Mun Seung Man, Rizawan Abdullah (Jalal)
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CYL
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Fazli Ayob (Jonathan Toto), Hafiz Abu Sujad (C), Faris Ramli, Shamil Sharif, Shahfiq Ghani (Aqhari Abdullah), Sherif El-Masri (Neil Vanu)

Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Ismail Yunos, Obadin Aikhena (C), Walid Lounis, Adrian Dhanaraj, Shafuan Sutohmoh (Nur Naiim Ishak), Hafiz Rahim, Mustaqim Manzur, Christopher Anderson (Fairoz Hasan), Jung Hee Bong, Julien Durand (Samuel Benjamin)
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Hougang United
Fadhil Salim (GK), Hasree Zais, Lau Meng Meng (C), Stanislav Vidakovic (Ignatius Ang), Ante Barac, Fazli Jaffar (Jordan Webb), Faizal Amir, Basit Hamid (Ridhwan Osman), Nurhilmi Jasni, Sobrie Mazelan, Mamadou Diallo
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Woodlands Wellington
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (GK), Danny Chew, Duncan Elias, Daniel Hammond (C), K Sathiaraj, Edward Tan, Armanizam Dolah (Oswind Suriya), Guntur Djafril (Moon Soon Ho), Han Yiguang, Shamsurin Abd Rahman, Farizal Basri (Hussein Akil)

Warriors regain winning way but is it too late

After a run of 4 games without a win, the Warriors won again as they beat Hougang 1-0 but their league title hopes may have already been hurt by that run as they are now a distance from leader DPMM.

They cannot afford to drop any more points ,especially against their rivals, from this stage as this season is the shortest since 2000 with only 24 games instead of the usual 33.

Last season top scorer and Player of the Year  Mislav Karoglan was the saviour of the Warriors season as he scored in the last 10 minutes of the game.

In other matches, Balestier beat Harimau Muda 2-0, Courts Young Lions crushed Tanjong Pagar 5-0 and Gombak beat Geylang 2-0.

Hamqaamal Shahand and Ruhaizad Ismail got the goals in the meeting of the Tigers clash.

Hafiz Abu Sujad, Jonathan Toto (2) and Shahfiq Ghani got the Cubs with the remaining one an own goal.

Obadin Aikhena and Julien Durand got the goals in the Bulls-Eagles match.

Balestier Khalsa
Joey Sim (GK), Hamqaamal Shah, Paul Cunningham (C), Jaslee Hatta, Ridwan Jamil, Tengku Mushadad (Muhaymin Salim), Ruhaizad Ismail, Goran Subara (Yusiskandar Yusop), Park Kang Jin, Syed Thaha, Patrick Paranjody  (Kim Minho)
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TPUFC
Shamsudin Hashim (GK), Hafiz Osman, Delwinder Singh (C) (Hanafi Salleh), Jonathan Xu (Afdhal Arifin), Azhar Ahmad, Asraf Rashid, Takaya Kawanabe, Serge Souchon, Sudhershen Hariram (Ravindira Ghopinath), Aliff Shafaein, Jang Injun

CYL
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman (Tajeli Salamat) , Faritz Abdul Hameed, Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Hafiz Abu Sujad (C), Faris Ramli, Shamil Sharif, Shahfiq Ghani (Aqhari Abdullah), Sherif El-Masri, Jonathan Toto (Haniff Sadique)
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Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Nurullah Hussein, Ismail Yunos, Obadin Aikhena (C), Walid Lounis, Adrian Dhanaraj (Shafuan Sutohmoh), Hafiz Rahim (Mustaqim Manzur), K Vikraman (Fareez Farhan), Christopher Anderson, Jung Hee Bong, Julien Durand

Geylang United
Yazid Yasin (GK) (C), Salim Rahim, Shahril Alias, Syed Fadhil (Faizal Samad), Jalal (Rizawan Abdullah), Rhema Obed, Michael King, Ang Zhi Wei, Jozef Kaplan, Basil Teo, Mun Seung Man (Rizawan Abdullah)
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SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK), Zulfadli Zainal Abidin,  Bah Mamadou, Daniel Bennett (C), Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada, Ruzaini Zainal, Eddie Chang, Fazrul Nawaz, Mislav Karoglan (Razaleigh Khalik), Erwan Gunawan (Noh Rahman)

Hougang United
Fadhil Salim (GK), Hasree Zais, Lau Meng Meng (C), Stanislav Vidakovic, Ante Barac, Azhar Sairudin (Basit Hamid), Jordan Webb, Fazli Jaffar (Sobrie Mazelan),  Faizal Amir, Nurhilmi Jasni, Mamadou Diallo

Why ASEAN football will always be at the bottom

Saw this article from Kingdom of football and it tell me why ASEAN football will always be at the bottom not just in world football but Asian one as well.

Firstly though, I am not going to say ASEAN football is shit just because of cases like Cambodia football now in the Suzuki Cup Qualifiers or even the one like Myanmar in July during the AFC Under-22 championship Qualifiers. 

The truth is we are in this predicament because we pay lip service to youth development and glory is more important to the policymakers who lead the game throughout the entire ASEAN region.

Afterall in Singapore, is it not the same as just looked at our 'Under-23' teams as claimed by our FAS and Singapore Press Holding (SPH) media.

Yes, I am talking about both the Courts Young Lions and LionXII who our policymakers and their media backers SPH continue to claim are, in general, youth development teams.

Indeed, SPH Sport editor Marc Lim had wrote last week that the LionXII is an Under-23 team but who is he kidding as he may fool the layman supporters but let honestly looked at the make-up of the team that take to the field regularly.

Most of the time no more than 4 players - Hariss Harun, Safuwan Baharudin, Khariul Nizam and Izwan Mahbud - are in that bracket and I can even say it is as low as 3 as Nizam is not a regular, for he cannot compete against the senior players, and with no disrespect even if it was just between him and Agu Casmir, he will still lose out as he is not a complete footballer yet.

If this evidence is not enough then the June transfer window where the LionXII had to send back 4 Under-23 players to Courts Young Lions because they were getting no match experience at all state what is wrong in calling this team a youth development for our youngest and brightest are just left to rot on the bench while those taking to the field are in their mid-20s to late 20s. (SPH is playing with average age of whole squad to cover this up)

The Olympic teams during Olympic Games are called Under-23 because they only allowed 3 overage players but in Singapore it is totally in reverse where no more than 3 Under-23 players take to the field as starters most of the time so what development.

But do not think I am just hitting the LionXII because it is the pet project of current FAS president for I am now coming to the Courts Young Lions who are in the S-league.

Despite playing more Under-23 players in their games, I am not sure if I want to call it a model youth development team at all for let be honest, they are not developing the players we need now in attack as these slots are taken up by Benjamin Lee, El Masri and Toto.

Is it any wonder looking at the future one wonder who is going to take up the slack in attack for if the Cubs, the team that suppose to play our lads, does not even play attackers who can represent Singapore, who are FAS to ask the clubs to do that.

No point illustrate this better than the transfer of Iqbal Hussain from Cubs to Gombak United.

At this point, it is impossible to tell if Iqbal Hussain will ever reach his full potential and step up to play at the international level but even if injuries had hamper his time at the Jalan Besar team, the question is why was he not given the chance after he recover from that, for at Gombak he has been given that.

Indeed I have highlighted this many times wondering why a team that is suppose to develop players and yet do not play potential players at all instead going for established players for these are what Camara (a defender), Benjamin Lee, El Masri and Toto are.

So is it any surprise we continue to see problems in key areas all over for the national team.

That why one wonder what youth development teams we have for they are playing players who are not Under-23 or even eligible to represent the Republic yet FAS and SPH can call both LionXII and Courts Young Lions youth development.

Who then are the real culprits and I direct this Raddy on the statement he make weeks ago as well as SPH who has never questioned the so called Under-23 teams when in fact there are none.

But do not despair readers for Singapore is in a region as terrible as us in term of youth development and that is why ASEAN football will always be bottom with Singapore part of it problem as well.

We just do not care about youth development here in Singapore or ASEAN as claimed for if we did then we will pay more attention to it than what we are giving it

Home does it again

Home United did it again as they become the club to end foreign club unbeaten run and this time it is the league leaders, Brunei DPMM, turn.

Although the way they did it was no beauty but at this moment in time, it will matter little as they first need to stop the Brunei club run.

After scoring through Frederic Mendy early in the game, the Protectors was happy to sit back and ask the league leaders to break down and DPMM failed to do that all game.

Indeed, the Protectors in the end won the game comfortably as DPMM could not penetrate them no matter what while they happily sat back on the lead.

In other matches, Tampines Rovers defeated Gombak United 3-2 with goals from Aleksandar Duric, Fahrudin Mustafic and Jamil Ali while Bulls reply through Jung Hee Bong and Julien Durand before going on to lose to Albirex Niigata (S), four days later, due to a Yamakoshi Yasuhiro goal.

Malaysian side Harimau Muda defeated Woodlands Wellington 2-1 with Gary Robbat and Affizie Faisal scoring for the Malaysians while Woodlands goal came from Moon Soon Ho.

Tampines Rovers
Sasa Dreven (GK), Jufri Taha (Jamil Ali), Anaz Hadee, Benoit Croissant, Ismadi Mukhtar, Fahrudin Mustafic, Sazali Salleh (Davor Piskor), Imran Sahib (Ali Hudzaifi), Ahmed Fahmie, Aleksandar Duric (C), Gligor Gligorov

Gombak United
Zaiful Nizam (GK), Nurullah Hussein, Ismail Yunos (Fairoz Hasan), Obadin Aikhena (C), Walid Lounis, Hafiz Rahim, K Vikraman (Samuel Benjamin), Nur Naiim Ishak (Adrian Dhanaraj), Christopher Anderson, Jung Hee Bong, Julien Durand
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Woodlands Wellington
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (GK), Fabien Larry Lewis, Daniel Hammond (C), Edward Tan, Armanizam Dolah, Guntur Djafril (Duncan Elias), Shamsurin Abd Rahman, Han Yiguang (K Sathiaraj), Farizal Basri (Andy Ahmad), Goh Swee Swee, Moon Soon Ho
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Tampines Rovers
Sasa Dreven (GK), Anaz Hadee, Jufri Taha, Benoit Croissant, Ismadi Mukhtar, Fahrudin Mustafic (Davor Piskor), Sazali Salleh, Imran Sahib (Ali Hudzaifi), Ahmed Fahmie (Jamil Ali), Aleksandar Duric (C), Gligor Gligorov
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Home United
Lionel Lewis (GK), Jeremy Chiang, Kenji Arai, Sofiyan Abdul Hamid, Franklin Anzite, Shi Jia Yi (C), Firdaus Idros (Indra Sahdan), Nor Azli Yusoff (Rosman Sulaiman), Shotaro Ihata (Masrezwan Masturi), Frederic Mendy, Qiu Li

DPMM continue impressive run with 3-2 win over Jaguars

DPMM Brunei continue their impressive run in the S-league on their return after a two-year absence.

They defeated Jaguars 3-2 and remain undefeated in the league thus far.

Bruneian forward Shahrazen Said was responsible for the win as he bagged a hat-trick in a game that DPMM was cruising and yet nearly ended up throwing the points away with Jaguars staging a comeback with two late goals from Takaya Kawanabe and Asraf Rashid.

In other matches, the Warriors title hopes are fading as they crashed 0-1 down to Balestier Khalsa thanks toa goal from  Andrew Tan, Geylang United defeated the Cubs 2-0 and Albirex Niigata (S) defeated Hougang 2-1. 

Michael King and Jozef Kaplan got the goals in the Eagles-Cubs game.

In the Hougang game, Kunihiro Yamashita and Kawakami Norihiro got the goals for the White Swans while the Cheetah goal came from Jordan Webb.

TPUFC
Shamsudin Hashim (GK), Hafiz Osman, Delwinder Singh (C), Jonathan Xu (S Vikneshwaran), Azhar Ahmad (Serge Souchon), Zahid Ahmad, Asraf Rashid, Takaya Kawanabe, Aliff Shafaein, Jang Injun, Lee Joo Sang
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Balestier Khalsa
Joey Sim (GK), Hamqaamal Shah (Andrew Tan), Paul Cunningham (C), Jaslee Hatta, Ridwan Jamil, Tengku Mushadad, Ruhaizad Ismail (Kim Minho), Goran Subara, Park Kang Jin, Syed Thaha, Patrick Paranjody (Poh Yi Feng)

SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK), Zulfadli Zainal Abidin, Razaleigh Khalik (Erwan Gunawan), Bah Mamadou, Daniel Bennett (C), Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada, Ruzaini Zainal (Eddie Chang), Shukor Zailan, Fazrul Nawaz, Mislav Karoglan
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CYL
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman (Tajeli Salamat) , Faritz Abdul Hameed, Sirina Camara, Sheikh Abdul Hadi, Hafiz Abu Sujad (C) (Sufianto Salleh), Aqhari Abdullah (Shamil Sharif), Faris Ramli, Benjamin Lee, Haniff Sadique (Shahfiq Ghani), Sherif El-Masri

Geylang United
Yazid Yasin (GK) (C), Salim Rahim, Shahril Alias, Syed Fadhil (Nurhazwan Norasikin), Jalal (Zul Elhan Fahmi), Rhema Obed, Michael King, Ang Zhi Wei, Jozef Kaplan, Basil Teo, Mun Seung Man (Rizawan Abdullah)
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Hougang United
Fadhil Salim (GK), Hasree Zais (Khayrulhayat Jumat), Lau Meng Meng (C), Stanislav Vidakovic, Ante Barac, Azhar Sairudin, Jordan Webb, Fazli Jaffar, Sobrie Mazelan (Basit Hamid), Ignatius Ang (Nurhilmi Jasni), Mamadou Diallo