Korea Super Reds V Gombak United
I was at the Yishun Stadium this evening. There was a good crowd, especially the Korean community in Singapore, which came in full force to support their own team. But they were denied a celebration as Gombak came from 1nil down to register a 3-1 victory. Frankly speaking, this Korean team doesn't look anywhere near to what we see and view of Korean teams.
My observations .......
They were over reacting to tackles from Gombak, fall down easily, and was delaying time as soon as they took a early lead in the 16th minute. Their keeper was booked twice for time wasting while taking the goal kick, and eventually was given his marching order. Another of their player, kicked the ball furiously at the advertising board and was given his 2nd yellow, thus, a sending off. Not much discipline from the usually disciplined Koreans. They were also not fit. In the 2nd half, they couldn't generate any serious attack and you can see that they were not running as hard as they did in the 1st half. Basically, they were waiting for Gombak to attack them and were just contended to sit on their 1nil lead.
The Koreans drew first blood!
The Koreans just went down too easily. So many times you see them being stretchered off.
The ill-disciplined Koreans eventually had 2 players sent off!
Eventually, Gombak managed to equalise thru Fazli Jaffar. It was a superb cross-field cross from the the right which found Fazli, who controlled the ball well to face the keeper one-to-one before stroking the ball superbly towards the left hand corner of the keeper's goal.
And when the crowd thought the game was going to end in a draw, the Gombak substitute, Kingsley, had other idea in mind. In the 87th minute, he went on a marauding run on the right byeline, then sent his shot across goal, into the bottom right corner of the Korean custodian's goal. And I thought this will be it. But the Korean defence just broke down. Agu Casmir capped his comeback from the wilderness with a solo effort. 3-1 to the Bulls!
YNWA @ 11:52 PM
