Singapore vs China

I though it was the World Cup Final held at the national stadium, grand stand tickets sold out at 6:50 pm ! All the chinaman, 小龙女, 陪读妈妈 buying the tickets !!!! Overwhelming response, should have come earlier. Sigh, no choice, have to walk back to east gate to get gallery tickets, hordes of people !!!!! Queue at least 20 mins to get our tickets :(

No VIP tickets this round :(

Teams strolled out, somehow Singapore not in red, and the Singapore flag somehow so small compare to the China flag, Nathan was there somemore ! National Anthem time.


Overall, a very poor match. Few clear cut chances, both teams are more interested to get players send off, play-acting after getting knocks, goes to ground like getting a WWE strike.
But eventually, Shao Jia Yi did get himself a red card, didn catch the action but a Singapore player went down.

China got slight more possession and technically better, passing the ball better but just could not break down Singapore's defence. Ironically, Singapore had a goal disallowed for Khairul's strike, either for handball or a foul on the defender.

China had a few openings, but Lionel was there to salvage the situation. But he was out of position when he came out a few times to get the ball, of course misses the ball.

And somehow, from the 35th to halftime, there are gazillions of people still trickling in, can't imagine why ? Blocking our view, shouldn't have sat at the first row along the lorong.

This second half freekick sums up Singapore's day, deadball attack lacks creativity and punch. Depending on counter-attack to create some chance, and it was Singapore who has another good chance in the second half, Dickson's run to the byline sends a low cross into the penalty box which the strikers did not put in any effort to attack it.



0-0 seems a fair result though China has a few chances to win the game in the second half.

Singapore still have a chance to get into the Asian Cup, with crucial games against Palestine and Iraq coming up.