15 August 09, SINGAPORE: SVHA have huffed and puffed their way back into the top four but are weakest placed amonst the other contenders.
Having played 7 games the masters are on 13 points 3-adrift of joint leaders SRC and C&C and on par with Hollandse Club who have played a game less.
It's exciting times ahead once SVHA put paid to d'Masters' challenge with an early Kanan Packrisamy goal. The stocky striker's 5th of the season was a neat deflection off Silvester Selvan's hard and low centre. It was then a R Selvakumar show as the lethal centre forward claimed two carbon copy goals, first from Olaf Bluemke's shot at goal and second off Gordon de Souza's pass.
A short but telling bad spell for the masters alowed d'Masters a come back as their centre forward Edwin Tan Teik Jin got the better of SVHA goalkeeper Aidil Idris in their one-one battle.
Leading 3-1 at half time and d'Masters only playing with 9 men, the result looked secured, but SVHA laboured on without the suspended captain George Edward and Ganesha Periasamy, guilty of a glaring miss the last time out, compensated for that with a vital 4th goal for the masters late on.
The 4-1 victory saw the masters get back into the top 4 on superior goal difference and go up against SCC next week, a must-win game for the former if they are to secure that play-off place and not to mention keep up a slim but viable league title challenge.
--ends--
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Valiant display but defeat nonetheless
8 August 09, SINGAPORE: The SVHA produced a valiant display in their SHL Division 2 match against hot favourites SRC. Goalless at half time the game was poised to finish under tensed circumstances and it did true to form.
Pegged back for most of the game, SVHA were determined not to hand SRC the advanatge, but last season's league champions were not to be denied and they scorded 10 minutes into the second half when Farlegh Clarke was the fastest to react to the rebound off SRC's penalty corner.
But SVHA could have restored parity when George Edward set up Ganesha Periasamy two minutes after going down. The latter only had the task of pushing the ball into an empty net but he missed when his fierce shot flew past the post.
Dejected the SVHAn s coulc not hold any longer and Nordin Manaf self-passed a free hit inside the SVHA defensive quarter past an inalert Mike Barton and finished intelligently with a squeeze shot.
The SRC barrage continued but no more goals at either end menat SVHA have got lots of work to do if they are to make the semi-finals.
--ends--
Pegged back for most of the game, SVHA were determined not to hand SRC the advanatge, but last season's league champions were not to be denied and they scorded 10 minutes into the second half when Farlegh Clarke was the fastest to react to the rebound off SRC's penalty corner.
But SVHA could have restored parity when George Edward set up Ganesha Periasamy two minutes after going down. The latter only had the task of pushing the ball into an empty net but he missed when his fierce shot flew past the post.
Dejected the SVHAn s coulc not hold any longer and Nordin Manaf self-passed a free hit inside the SVHA defensive quarter past an inalert Mike Barton and finished intelligently with a squeeze shot.
The SRC barrage continued but no more goals at either end menat SVHA have got lots of work to do if they are to make the semi-finals.
--ends--
Thursday, August 6, 2009
SVHA v SRC preview
vs
SRC have agreed to play in Blue Black and Black (spoken to jude and he agreed)
Arrival time: 3.45pm at Sengkang 2
Manager: Can one of you bring along your lovely wife to be manager. Naren your dad has a 100% winning record with us, perhaos he can come again?
Squad (14 players) (mobile numbers listed so that you can call each other remind yourselves about the game):
Goalkeeper: Aidil (94577929)
Defenders: Mike (90238987), Aneel (90667644), Naren (91196434), Seng (97660070), Richard (91289125) and David (naren please call him)
Midfielders: Luno (91290205), Ganesha (97987712), Olaf (97815644), Tjalling (91730161) and Balbir (82387971)
Forwards: Gordon (98506347), George (81452231)
Unavailable:
Kanan (work committments)
Eric (overseas for work)
Silvester (overseas for long weekend)
Tony (overseas for pleasure, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TONY & SARAH)
Hans (injured back)
Selva (prior engagement, that's what he put down on the availability schedule, but he told george he is coming) (90030035)
I need a volunteer to call all of these players up, Naren or Ganesha? I know George will call them all the same, we need one more back up person to do the honours.
Please volunteer.
also we need a volunteer for water this week (24 small mineral water bottles).
Game 1: Kanan
Game 2: Eric
Game 3: Kanan
Game 4: Naren (I owe you S$7.50)
Game 5: Luno (i owe you S$7.50)
Game 6: Olaf/Balbir/Richard/Aneel/Gordon/Mike/Seng can one of you volunteer please
Statistics about the game:
SRC 1st on the league table
SVHA 3rd, 3 points adrift
Form Guide
SRC lies top with 2.6 points/game
SVHA are 5th on 2 points.game
Attack
SRC scores 5.4 goals/game and that's the best in the league
SVHA scores 3.4 goals/game and lie second in the league
Defence
SRC concede 2 goals/game and are 6th in the league
SVHA concedes 1.8 goals/game and are 4th best in the league
The computerised predictor has predicted SRC to win this game by a 1-goal margin. 3-2 the final score. It further affirms that SRC has a 57% chance of winning this game whilst SVHA 36%, the game being drawn is 7%.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Anti-climax but a win all the same
1 Aug 09, SINGAPORE: SVHA moved to third in the SHF Division 2 league following their 3-0 walkover over minnows Khlasa.
Looking forward to a big win and putting paid to the computer prediction of 4-1, the masters went about their warm nonchalantly only to be interrupted by umpire How's prolonged whistle.
With only one umpire on the pitch and neither captain being called over, the umpire had called off the game as Khalsa only had 7 players at that time.
It was later revealed that 2 of the players were at pitch 2 by mistake and were wondering where the rest of their team was? Ironically they arrived at pitch one a minute after How had blown his whilste and awarded the game to SVHA.
Disappointment was all around but a the two sides played a friendly game all the same and SVHA won that encounter 5-3. It's noteworthy that they had lent two of their senior players to Khalsa to even things out.
SVHA take on league leaders SRC this saturday at 4.30pm at Sengkang Stadium pitch 2.
---ends--
Looking forward to a big win and putting paid to the computer prediction of 4-1, the masters went about their warm nonchalantly only to be interrupted by umpire How's prolonged whistle.
With only one umpire on the pitch and neither captain being called over, the umpire had called off the game as Khalsa only had 7 players at that time.
It was later revealed that 2 of the players were at pitch 2 by mistake and were wondering where the rest of their team was? Ironically they arrived at pitch one a minute after How had blown his whilste and awarded the game to SVHA.
Disappointment was all around but a the two sides played a friendly game all the same and SVHA won that encounter 5-3. It's noteworthy that they had lent two of their senior players to Khalsa to even things out.
SVHA take on league leaders SRC this saturday at 4.30pm at Sengkang Stadium pitch 2.
---ends--
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