Friendly Match Report: PMC vs OLD (8th September)

It was a throw-back to 2010 as the Veterans in gold (OLD) turned up at Greenview Sec to take on the young guns of PMC in preparation for the kick-off of the inaugural SCS Cup 2013. Many familiar Veterans like Ramon and Andy returned to the pitch, hoping to roll back the years and good times, even though bodies were further aged. Team PMC was also intent to do well with a pacier brand of football.

At kick-off, the teams seemed pretty evenly matched, with some decent passing. Certainly the speed of PMC was a threat against OLD, with some long balls almost being picked up by Yi Jun and Jingzhong. On the part of OLD, the build-up play was slow and used the target men of Ramon and Martin to hold up play before bringing others into the action. Chances were few and far between in the first 10 minutes, but the breakthrough came from PMC when a ball over the top was not cleared, leaving Yi Jun with the simplest of tasks. Team PMC was clearly finding OLD easy pickings, using their speed to great effect. Twice more PMC scored before OLD pulled one back through Ramon, who out-muscled Weijie and robbed him of the ball before blasting into the corner of the PMC net. It was 3-1 to PMC at half-time.

Some substitutions were made at the break, but with limited subs for both teams, most of the players had to press on under the sweltering heat. Being younger and fitter, it was no surprise that PMC scored first after the break, Isaac Hwa stroking nicely into the net after being put clean through from a diagonal ball. 2 more goals came, one of which was courtesy of a cheeky lob by Lincoln.

Although the game ended 6-1 in favour of PMC, OLD did not play badly, but probably needed more pairs of legs in order to do well against much younger opponents.