Friendly Match Report: PMC vs CMC (16th March)

Follwing a long period of drought in Singapore, it had finally rained on the day of the match, but the rain also cleared up in a timely manner for the match to proceed. CMC were short of players, so Lincoln and David were loaned to them in the first half to start the match. A few of PMC's usual starting players were not available so the starting line-up saw a few changes.

The PMC team lined up in the following manner for kick-off:

Eddie

Isaac - Rusydi - Samuel

Kee Min - Tim

Daniel Chen - Weijie - Daniel Low - Joel

David Lim

The match kicked of with both sides hungry for the ball. PMC started with high intensity football, pressuring our opponents higher up the pitch and causing CMC to have to pass the ball back to the keeper on more than one occasion. The first injury woe of PMC occurred when Isaac hobbled off the pitch at around 20mins into the game due to an old injury on his left ankle, and Justin came in for him on the left. CMC scored the opening goal when Lincoln (who was playing for CMC) came into a 1-on-1 with David, who lost the 50-50 challenge for the ball, clipped Lincoln and conceded and penalty. The penalty was then scored by a CMC player who struck the ball into the bottom left of the goal.

The second goal for CMC came when a cross from Lincoln (still playing for CMC) got past Wei Jie and caught David off position, managed to reach the CMC striker. The ball glanced the striker's shoulder, and despite a poor second touch, lobbed the ball into an empty net.

Despite being 2 goals down, PMC continued to play with tenacity, sending many balls to Eddie who held off the defenders well, but was unable to play the final ball due to lack of natural strikers on the PMC side.

PMC made several changes in the second half, which looked like this:

David Sng

Rusydi - Tim - Justin

Kee Min - CQ

Wei En - Weijie - Daniel Low - Samuel

David Lim

The second half saw some of the fiercest battles in the midfield between Tim and CMC's no. 24. While PMC continued to play it's attacks down the middle, CMC attempted to overrun the PMC defence by playing down the flanks. But a more vigilant defence led by Wei Jie and Daniel held off the CMC attack which did not give much trouble to the keeper. About 15 mins in, David Sng came off the for David Lim as centre-forward, and Joel cam in for David Lim in goal. The second injury woe for PMC came when Daniel sprinted to cover Samuel who was outnumbered on the right flank. He managed to put the ball out but pulled his right hamstring again. Samuel came in to the centre-back position for Daniel, Justing moved down to right back and Lincoln (playing for PMC this time) came in on the right flank. PMC's break through finally came when a cross by Lincoln found David who broke forward beating the defender and placing the ball at the back of the net. The game carried on for the rest of the match with no clear cut chances on either side. 

"Man of the match" undeniably goes to Lincoln who had a part to play all 3 goals scored in this match.

Final score PMC 1-2 CMC. Samuel closed in prayer.