After the announcement of starting line up by skipper Samir Aie, F&F players offered Al-Fatihah to Nabeelja's late grandfather who past away in the afternoon. We extend our utmost condolences to his family.
Andy "Bedak" finally made his debut and took Nabeelja's position along side Ferdinadeem with Eski Raul on the left back and Samir Aie on the right flank.
Player/Manager Samir Aie told his boys that he wants to win the match in the 1st half and the team responded well by demonstrating silky passes and movements. F&F again scored an early goal after Samir Aie combined his fast running and skill to dribble past Spirulina's left back and crossed the ball to the far post which found unmarked Abby, who had time to stop the ball with his left foot and tapped the ball home with his right foot.
Zul K "Takut Lipas", Hamka "Beng-ho" and Sohaib Karembeu combined well and controlled the match at the middle of the park with their neat touches and killer passes to the wingers. F&F nearly doubled their lead when Samir Aie's free kick found Ferdinadeem sneaking at the far post but his header unfortunately hit the post instead.
Zul K "Takut Lipas"'s vision and Hamka "Beng-ho"'s off the ball run resulted a second goal for F&F. As the Spirulina's defenders were busy marking Abby and Zul Rossi, Zul K pounded upon the opportunity to slide a pass through to marauding Hamka "Beng-ho". Hamka did justice to the splendid pass by cheekily chipping the ball over the helpless goalkeeper.
Ferdinadeem again missed the chance to score his first goal of the season when F&F was given their 1st corner kick of the game. Ferdinadeem fooled his marker for the second time by sneaking at the far post and volleyed the perfect cross by Hamka into the sky.
F&F was totally a different team in the 2nd half. Spirulina introduced their playmakers Syahir "Pisang" and Nenek. Syahir "Pisang" particularly has changed the flow for Spirulina by holding the ball and unleashing decent passes which disrupted F&F's defence. Samir Aie swiftly tinkered the tactics by changing Zul Rossi to defensive midfield and Zul K to striker.
It seems all of the F&F's attackers too tired to defend but Ferdinadeem and co had no problem keeping the Spirulina's strikers quiet. As usual F&F's penalty appeal was turned down by the referee when Eski Raul changed to the left flank and tried to dribble past the defender and the ball struck his hand. Minutes later, F&F had two chances to score, first with Samir Aie's free kick which found Nadom Onouha who chested the ball for subtitute, Boynaldo to volley straight to the goalie. The second was from Sohaib Karembeu who fired his thunderous shot but it was slightly over the bar.
The game as a whole was played on different tempos between both halves. In particular, F&F played a quick tempo game in the first half which was rewarded with 2 goals by Abby and Hamka. In the second half, F&F tried to control their passing game and slowed the tempo down to conserve their energy for the next match.
F&F will play against Black Emperor in the semi final on the 30th of April(Thursday).
No comments:
Post a Comment