Bowen - With two games left to play in the season, Myjia FFC produced football of the highest quality albeit against a weak Bowen Chinese side to triumph 5-0 on the excellent artificial pitch.
Despite missing experienced campaigners such as Raymond Tan and Sunny Rai, Myjia youngsters, Ebenzer Low in particular, showed that the future is blazingly bright with a matured performance beyond their years.
With the absence of Raymond, reserve keeper Aaron Tan came to the fore and caught the eye with an excellent tip round the post when he was tested by a tricky free kick in the 15th minute. Aaron, ably defended by captain Vincent Low and Roy Tan and flanked by Ng Yongchun and Wilkin Tan hardly had a testing save to make thereafter throughout the game - such was the dominance of Myjia.
Within ten minutes of the kickoff, Myjia had launched numerous attacks only to be letdown by the players' own over-elaborateness. If there was a fault to be pointed out in the early stages of the game, it would be that Myjia appeared to be looking to score the perfect goal.
The first real chance of the game for Myjia came via the left flank when Wai Meng skipped past the rightback and in a 3 on 1 situation with Junhao and Eric in support, the latter missed Wai Meng's low center across the goal.
The glaring miss was to be only a sign of things to come.
Skilful midfielder Kenneth Koh played a series of one-twos with Junhao which put him clean through and when his initial shot was parried by the keeper, Kenneth made no mistake with the second attempt with a thunderous left foot shot.
1-0 to Myjia. The Bowen Chinese defence was continously stretched to the max by the flank play of Wilson and Ebenzer and also the speed of Delvin. Ebenzer in particularly had an outstanding match as he proved a menace for the leftback with his intelligence.
Under such trying circumstances, it was no surprise when the Bowen defence crumbled under Delvin Ng's demonic speed.
Beating the midfielder to a through pass down the left flank, Delvin outpaced and dribbled past another two defender before his quickness of the feet got him to the ball before the onrushing keeper to put Myjia two goals up.
Junhao soon added another assist when Wai Meng added a third goal for Myjia with a sweet turn-and-shoot attempt off the former's pass which left the keeper grasping thin air.
3-0 to Myjia at halftime and if the team thought the first half was excellent, the second half proved an even more exhilarating display.
Man of the Match Ebenzer was beginning to exert his influence on the match with several dangerous runs down the right channel and his hard work eventually paid off when he cracked in a stupendous shot from 25 yards out for his first goal of the season.
The effort was reminiscence of a goal he scored last season. The ball half cleared from a corner dropped to Ebenzer and with a quick glance at the goal, the youngster let fly a rocket which dipped past the keeper into the top corner. Truly a contender for the Goal of the Season.
Not contended with just a goal, Ebenzer doubled his season tally after a brilliant control and back flick from Eric Low found Jackson who in turn released Ebenzer who finished with much aplomb. The goal was brilliantly celebrated with a little jiggle which cousin Kenneth Koh spontaneously joined in. What a Kodak moment!
Myjia continued to attack and on one fast break down the left flank, Jackson raced to the byline looking for support which eventually arrived in the form of Vincent and Ebenzer.
Vincent controlled the ball and rolled an inviting ball to his son who unfortunately blasted the ball powerful but only just above the crossbar. Had the ball go in, it could have match Ebenzer's earlier goal for the Goal of the Season.
Jackson Seetoh continued to have chances aplenty but only the flailing limbs of the keeper prevented the striker from getting an early birthday present.
In the final minutes of the game, Jackson had one last attempt to put his name on the scoresheet but alas, the trailing legs of the keeper kept the ball out and when the ball fell to Wilkin Tan, the defender missed a glorious chance to score his first goal of the season when his shot was blocked by a desperate defender.
In the end, Myjia deservedly thrashed a weaker opponent 5-0 but what was most pleasing was the manner in which the team stroked and passed the ball about in search of an opening. Even more pleasing was to see a youngster progress through the youth ranks at Myjia and score his first career double. Well done everyone!
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