Match Report Prem League: against CSC

Match report 2nd match of the season...we had the local Ceylon Sports Club on a late Saturday afternoon. Due to lightning and rain, the earlier matches of Women 1s got postponed and Women 2nd had to finish with another 25min to play...

Question was whether we belong to this league or not...lucky win the week earlier against a strong Police squad (3:2), but our Prem squad not really happy about the performance as we knew we can play better as a team. It started well, our offense line with Marcel, Olly and Hoirul worked hard to get some chances...which they did. But we missed the the last consequence and didn't score, but it felt as this could be a good game.

Then, basically out of nothing, CSC showed up in front of Adi and our defense line around Marin, Fazly, Wesley, Barney and Joo-Seuk and were granted a penalty corner. With a bit of luck and Marin's stick, they managed to score and lead 0:1, leaving our earlier efforts behind.

We remained patient, continued to work hard on additional chances...which lead into 2 penalty corners, both were successfully drag-flicked by Ben, our leading scorer this and last season. Needless to say that we will miss him a lot as he is departing from Singapore this Wednesday. By now, our prem squad was in comfortable lead and didn't allow more chances for CSC, whereas we continued to penetrate their final 25. Another penalty corner was stopped only by the body of one of the CSC defender, but the referees did not catch this...Now, our prem team constantly penetrated the defense and had additional chances...one was finally conversed by our local Army man Hoirul.

In the 2nd half, having a comfortable lead of 3:1, Tornado's tried also different formations, which may come handy later this season, a final goal by our young runner Marcel was the result and included a nice play through the whole team.
Final result 4:1 and spectators from all other teams as Police, SRC and SCC that may wonder now, whether this Tornado's prem squad are push-overs or not. We are not.

Man of the Match and a huge loss to our team and the whole Club: Ben Apperly.
A small farewell after the match with an emotional Ben left us behind.