SHFPL’11 Week 3: Weekly Highlights – A splendid weekend of goals!

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Written by: Farhan

There are several types of score lines in team sports:

(1) Slim 1-0 wins, where both teams are equal in strength, only for one to succumb to a careless error

(2) 2-goals lead, where one knows one team is better than the other

(3) The 5-0 wins as the winning team is simply that darn good

And of course, you have the Singapore Recreation Club (SRC) versus Indian Association (IA).

Playing their first ever league match in the Hockey Premier Division, SRC did not take long to stamp their class on the pitch. In fact, it took Leon Thompson Lopez just 6 minutes to open the scoring for SRC in the awesome 12-0 schooling of the young IA team.

IA never got their passing game going as SRC made sure they saw little of the ball. Whenever key players Sairulnizam, Farhan Osman or Ahmad Suhaimi made a move in the attacking third, SRC’s Harjeet Singh and Sunil Eyamo made sure they were closed down while their teammates ran the show. The former’s accurate top corner wrist shots from penalty corners were always a deadly threat, as one of them even culminated into a goal in the 54^th minute. 

Already scoring 15 goals in three matches were Police, contributing seven goals was the week’s 7-1 win over Ceylon Sports Club (CSC). Living up to their billing as title contenders, Police put up a similarly ruthless dispatching of CSC even as they conceded an early eighth minute field goal to give CSC a brief lead.

In a (relatively) lower scoring match in the weekend, the Jansenites did quite well in their first match of the league to post an emphatic 4-1 win over Singapore Cricket Club (SCC). With established players such as Johnson Sivalingam, Enrico Marican, Sean Huang and Tan Yi Ru in the side, Jansenites never really looked to be in trouble from the get-go.

They did, however, took some time to get used to the pace of the game in their maiden league match, conceding a goal to equalise the score at 1-1 right before half-time.

The floodgates then opened in the second half, with well-taken penalty corners by Karleef Sasi and Yi Ru, before Silas Abdul Razak applied the finishing touches in the 62nd minute to seal SCC’s fate, winning the game with 4-1.

In all, it was goals galore from the weekend’s exciting matches, with the top three teams in free-scoring mode for their respective sides.