It is not often that we can say a team that picked up 3 yellow card and 2 red cards were not punished adequately, but this is a view that I hope to be able to defend in this post-match thoughts article. While the Sailors picked up an expected win, and have one foot in […]
Sorry this one took so long. After the game, we had to go celebrate our team’s victory away from home, and also experience for ourselves the sights and sounds of Hong Kong. I took an extended holiday after that with my parents, and brought them around to see Hong Kong as well. Away days are
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There was a moment in the first half of this game, when Balestier scored a blatantly offside goal. It was so offside that the Balestier players didn’t even celebrate it, they just retreated back into position. Izwan also just turned around to retrieve the ball for a free kick. Noone thought it was a goal
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It was a dream start for us in our first ever home game in the AFC Champions League. Last season’s “home” games don’t count because they were all played in Buriram in a centralised tournament due to Covid-19. As is so often the case, whenever Chris van Huizen gets a cross into the box, things
As mentioned in the preview piece, this game mattered little to us, and so it was interesting to see such a strong lineup. Maxime, Diego, Richairo, all started. Other players you would expect to see start on Wednesday, such as Hafiz Nor, Chris van Huizen, Hariss Harun, and Zharfan Rohaizad played 90min as well. Curiously,
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This article should really have come out earlier but WordPress will be the death of me. Usually reliable, it decided to crash while I was 99% done with the article and typing my concluding thoughts. How very annoying – and so I have to start all over again. (Yes, I did save along the way,
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Tampines Rovers again put us upstairs in the top tier, but it was them who ended up in tears at the end of the night. After an electrifying performance, especially in the first half, we went in 3-0 ahead at half-time, and I think many will be forgiven for thinking that it was game over.
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Not quite the Fibonacci sequence or the code to my safe, but 7-3-2-1 was the story of the day. I brought two friends to watch their first Lion City Sailors game, and I don’t think they could have picked a better game to come watch. One was an Olympique Marseille fan club member who I’d
13 minutes and 27 seconds in. New boy Rui Pires holds, and then sprints forward to intercept a loose pass. Within seconds, the ball is worked out right to Maxime. Richairo makes a convincing decoy run into the middle, pushing the defensive line back. Then comes the crucial moment – Shawal raises his left hand
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Our Sailors were far from their sparkling best against Tanjong Pagar United, but came out of the game with a crucial three points. These three points allow us to stay in the title race (mathematically but not realistically), but more importantly help halt the losing run. We will need some momentum going into the AFC
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