This is one match which we should have wrapped up in the 1st half. The opponents were young, inexperienced but enthusiatic in their game. They gave us so much room which we didn't fully exploit to our advantage.

One thing that deserve special mention before the start of the highlights of this game is the superb punctuality of the players. Everyone was at RJC before 230pm. Wow!

The match started with domination by Dasch Rovers. The occasional one-touch play may have let us down, but the passing was overall fluent and precise. Our wingers Raymond and Jiamin provided much needed width that were missing in our past few matches. However, they are not getting the crosses in deep enough for Cheng Cai or Mingheng to fully utilise their heading powess. Cheng Cai and Mingheng had to fend of tight markings from the opposing young defenders to create enough room for themselves. Perhaps due to the absence of the industrial Desmond?

Our forwards today really let us down in many occasions. Many a times, there were perfect opportunity to score simple goals, but they had to conjure up some stunts to impress dunno who and wasted the golden opportunities to pile up the score. Cheng Cai on numerous occasion was the main culprit. Too bad he couldn't add to his impressive goal tally today. However he could blame no one but himself for his stunts. One fine example: The opposing GK kicked the ball directly into Cheng Cai's path, with no defenders within a radius of 5 metres around him, he chose to give a thunderous shot at goal rather than doing the simple dribbling forward and placing the shot. Shame on you... The vital goal should have settle Dasch down.

Despite all their stunts our fowards did prove to be thorns in the opponent's defence. Cheng Cai curled a superb shot pass the GK which hit the upright and rebound towards the stranded GK on the floor. However, the ball bounced off his body and into the touchline, missing the goal by a few inches.

The opponent didn't really provided Dasch with much problems except for the rare goal mouth scramble that Dasch defenders grown so used to. HAha...at least we didn't have the frightening goal kicks nightmare with Bryan around.

The 2nd half kicked off with Dasch given much more room to manoeuvre. Perhaps the opponents were tired, or just simply inexperienced enough to contain us. The opponents were tired, and so were Dasch under the hot afternoon sunday. There were much lack of support for the forwards whenever they get the ball. Our stand-in midfielder Zixin did a fine job in providing much needed distribution of the ball, however, the final touches always seem to let us down terribly.

On a single occasion, we managed to catch them on the break with Kenneth dribbling down fast towards the opposing goal with only the GK and a single defender to beat. Sensing Mingheng coming up fast on his left, he pushed the ball to Mingheng....only to have him misplacing the chance....the ball got stuck to the ground. Awww...

So how did we score the only goal of the match? Well, it wasn't beautiful at all. Cheng Cai curled a shot from the far right into goal and the GK had a "confusing" time trying to get hold of the tricky shot. Mingheng was there to solve the problem for him by pushing his way through (with the ball..of course) into the goal.

With all due respect to the opponents, they did have some rather good players with much potential around. However, they can be considered one of the weakest team Dasch have ever played against. Ruibin didn't have any difficult saves to make except for a few shots coming straight at him. It was also easy to push the ball around without having opposing players breathing down our necks.

1-0 win? Nah..nothing to be proud of.