SVHA back into top four

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.

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