April 16, 2004

Roundup of the week S-league

April 13, 2004 Queenstown

TPUFC

1

4

Woodlands Wellington

Benoit Salviat 82'

 

 

Kim Eun Cher 37', 78'

Samawira Basri 56'

Masrezwan Masturi 59'

The Rams continued their remarkable start to the season with a 4-1 thrashing of the Jaguars at Queenstown. The Jaguars got their only goal from import Benoit Salviat late in the match.

The Rams are now 7 points clear of their nearest rival the Stags & the Swans

April 14, 2004 Tampines

Tampines Rovers

2

2

Home United

Mirko Grabovac 75'

Aliff Shafaein 90'

 

 

Egmar Goncalves 20'

Indra Sahdan 27'

The Stags & the Protectors played out a 2-2 thriller at Tampines.

The champion seeking to end their misery streak in the league, with them collecting only 1 point in their last matches, got off to a great start as Egmar Goncalves & Indra Sahdan fired them in front in the 1st half. The Protectors should have finished off the shell-shocked Stags but for some wasteful finishing which were to haunt them later in the match.

In the 2nd half, the Stags already down by 2 goals decided to risk it all & used an attacking formation to stage a comeback. The Champion knowing this stiffed the opening period of the 2nd half & it nearly succeed until the 75 minute when Noh Alam Shah burst through the Protectors offside trap only to be brought down by goalkeeper Ridzuan Fatah Hassan who was send off. Left with 10 men & the resulting penalty scored, the Protectors was unable to withstand the endless round of attacks by the Stags & in injury time, Aliff Shafaein scored the equalizer off a rebound after substitutes keeper Sean Roberts make a great save.

April 15, 2004 Bedok

Geylang United

1

0

Balestier Khalsa

Chang Hui 3'

 

 

 

Chang Hui finally got his first goal for his new club the Eagles as he scored in the 3 minutes of the match. But that was the only really action of the match as after that both defence stood firm & restrict the other to harmless long-range shots.

A dangerous cross from Noor Ali wasn’t properly caught by Balestier Tigers keeper Bashir Khan allowing Chang Hui on hand to take the chance to finish off from close range.

The victory allowed the Eagles to climb out of the bottom 3 with the losing team the Tigers replacing them.

April 15, 2004 Choa Chu Kang

SAFFC

6

6

Young Lions

Ballamodou Conde 21', 38'

Jonathon Angelucci 42', 45', 80'

Ashrin Shariff 47'

 

 

Itimi Dickson 26'

Agu Casmir 35', 70'

Khairul Amri 87'

Syed Fadhil 89'

Nenad Bacina (OG) 90'

While the other match on the night was a bore, this match was a thriller with both team hitting 12 goals between them.

The 1st half saw 6 goals with the Warriors leading 4 -2 & up to the 87 minute of the match the Warriors was still leading 6-3 but what was to happen will cause endless nightmare for the Warriors keeper Adi Saleh & defender Nenad Bacina as 3 goals was scored in the last 5 minute. Worse was the last goal was headed in by Nenad Bacina who was under pressure from Agu Casmir.

Jonathon Angelucci who was under pressure to end his goalless streak had hit a hat-trick in the match

April 16, 2004 Jurong East

Albirex Niigata

2

2

Sinchi

Yasuhito Tanaka 29', 82'

 

 

Shi Jiayi 25'

Zhong Cheng 72'

Albirex Niigata lose more valuable points when they drew 2-2 with Sinchi at Jurong East allowing the previous pointless Sinchi to gain their first point.

Sinchi top-scorer Shi Jiayi notched the opening goal when he struck straight from a free-kick which Albirex Niigata keeper Yu Yamada allowed to slipped into goal after catching it. The Swans did not take long to draw level. After being awarded a free-kick at the edge of Sinchi box. Sinchi keeper could not hold on to Yamagata stinging drive as he palmed the ball straight into Tanaka path, the forward made no mistake tapping the ball home into an unguarded goal.

There was no breakthrought until Xie Yuxin brought himself into the match & made immediate impact.

His great pass to the Sinchi was floated across Albirex’s penalty area nicely & Zhong Cheng drifted in from the blind side between 2 defenders to head home. Tanaka though ruined any hope of a Sinchi victory when he struck late in the match to steal home a point. Substitute Yasuo Takasugi square the ball across for Tanaka who miskicked but it flew past the Sinchi keeper.

The draw meant the Swans remained in third position in the league