This being the moment when substitute striker Erwan Gunawan (second blue jersey player from the right) headed home the winning goal to give SAFFC and Singapore their first victory in the continental elite club competition over China's Henan Jianye.
As compared to their last two outing at the Jalan Besar Stadium, I felt Henan's cautious and possession type of football compliment with the style of the Singapore representative, as both Suwon Samsung and Gamba Osaka duly punished the Warriors with their much superior swift mobility tactic.
Probably because of that "toned down" pace of the match, the home side had relatively easier game as compared their encounters against the East Asian powerhouses.
Nonetheless, it was a milestone not only for the Warriors, who are now richer by US$40,000 (for wining a group stage match) but also for the Singapore football on the whole.
POST MATCH PRESS CONFERENCE
We were focusing our attention on this match and it's not that essential to have ourselves psychologically prepare on whatever outcome of the other game." said Henan coach Tang Yaodong in his post-match media briefing when asked if he was aware of the outcome of other Group G match between Gamba Osaka and Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
"I felt we had created a few chances which we failed to capitalized on them, whereas SAFFC had their two chances which they converted and that's football." he noted.
It was a fantanstic achievement for Singapore football for the first win in the ACL, not just for SAFFC and also for Singapore football as well." said a delighted SAFFC coach Richard Bok in his briefing to the media after the game.PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MATCH PICTURES
"We set our target to improve what we done last year and to get our first win, it's a wonderful achievement as not only we met our but surpass that expectation." added coach Bok, whose team had gathered a win and a draw from this season's ACL campaign so far, when asked if the Warriors had met the expectation in this season's continental campaign.
One thing to add that perhaps the organizers should be flexible to the some photographers who were covering the games at ACL by allowed to take a shelter where this is one.
ReplyDeleteAs it was raining inconsistently and the cameras being a money-making tools to these folks are being put at risk
great moment !!!
ReplyDeleteI love to watch football! It's great.
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