MiM 10: ACS (Independent) vs Catholic JC

Match in Mind 10, by Shadiq A-H. Free of Charge.

ACSI 2 - 1 CJC

A Div Boys Football Tournament

8/5/08

4.30pm

NJC, Singapore

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Intro: I didn't choose to watch this one, simply had to, cos I was playing in it. And some of u may know that I'm having 4 (yes, 4.) matches this week.. but i decided to do a MiM now anyway, for 2 reasons: 1. I don't feeling like doing chem, 2. there's been no activity on this blog for so long, even after e class had 2 birthdays since e previous post. So, back to e match.. this was e last match in the tournament for both these teams. CJC had to live up to their tag of being e 3rd best team in e group, after MJC and VJC (i love MJC, man..). ACSI had some pride to defend, after dropping many points unluckily in their 1st A Div tournament ever. And please please don't think that i'm doing a MiM just cos we won. No such thing, I would MiM any of our matches if not for my tiredness. I am quite very very tired now, but for those 2 reasons above, MiM lah. Oh and I played in this match along with other 5.11 people, Javier Lim and Pham Quang Minh.

Tactics: ACSI started with their normal formation, with Javier Lim on his newly-found RM position, Minh in his normal CF position and their no. 8 in his favourite DM position. Didn't really pay attention to what formation CJC played, but they preferred attacking through e centre, a preference that seems to suit them.

My Man of the Match: Javier Lim (ACSI). he scored e 2nd goal and had a part in e 1st. honestly, looked abit off when defending, but his goal helped. i was actually worried for him in e morning, after he came over to me and said he didn't feel like playing cos he was emo. but, that goal surely erased that. well it would have cured e emo if i were him, anyway. haha don't know about him though. on e lighter side, he didn't get kicked in this match, which has happened some times already, always followed by a scream from him haha. Javier, i told u, football cures everything. haha nice goal bud, although it was a rebound, tt was good anticipation. wohoo!

"What the..?": A few incidents can be put here, but i chose this one. ACSI players doing exactly what e CJC supporters tried. haha. 1st, a CJC player picks up e ball on e left side and their supporters start screaming "go! burn him burn him!", where "him" is shoban. but instead, shoban gets e ball back and burns that same player down tt same side. haha. 2nd, their supporters start doing one of their cheers, and it goes on for about 2 minutes. at e same time, e tiempo of e match is slowed down. ACSI's no. 8 doesn't want that, and he becomes irritated (slightly) by e cheer, and shout at e top of his voice, "ah come on AC!!!", and then, e whole place became quiet. haha.

Commentator's memorable quotes: No commentator for this match, but i did pick out some quotes from e players. "eh Javier! why u there?" - Lee Ren Xiang, "wah, damn emo lah. i think i can't play" - Javier Lim, "I want to play outfield today, i don't care" - Esmond Loke, "Huh? oh u ask why i wearing this? okay okay i go change to my keeper shirt now!" - Esmond Loke (haha nice try lah buddy), "wah i like NJC" - Gareth Nah (i wonder why..), "eh Luke stop looking through my phone!" - Shoban, "ah come on AC!" - our no. 8, "Cannot be what" - ACSI A Div Football team. haha..

Implications/Expectations: No implications, cos both teams were out of e A Div tournament, but I want to use this space to tell my teammates sth. Guys, i think we did have some reasonable team spirit. not e whole team was always present, sadly, but there were a good number of u guys who showed spirit. As coach said, next year we will try more and harder. And this year we should have finished higher than we did, remember.. cos we lost 8 points very very unluckily. So guys, thanks for at least working hard for it, and we'll do better next year. haha that line is becoming too normal at Liverpool.

And now, I'm going to get some good rest before tmr's very very very important match. After i read some football news, i'm going to sleep. see u all in sch tmr.