S.League Season 2009 – Match 11

	Opponent: Young Lions Date: 27th Apr, 1945hrs Venue: Jalan Besar Stadium Final Score: 2 – 3 (Afiq Yunos 1′, Eugene Luo 68′ – Indra Sahdan Daud 10′ (p), Murphy Wiredu 42′, Anthony Bahadur 51′)
One third of our adventure draws to a close on a positive note. A hard earned win with enough heart stopping moments to stretch any Dolphin supporters’ nerves to the limit. Here’s to the next 22 games. Jorg gives his pre-match pep talk An unchanged lineup from the Woodlands victory At 26 seconds, the Young Lions' goal was too fast to register on the scoreboard The Young Lions defence keeps Anthony in check... but not for long Anthony shares his delight with Murphy's goal Anthony celebrates with his robot dance Slowly but surely returning to the Hiro we know and love The final minutes has everyone standing on edge Jorg signals the team to acknowledge the fans' support. Well done guys! Starting lineup vs Young Lions Wreck’s words after an intense workout: Before the game there was too much glare from media like TODAY and S League.com which I find a bit too destabilizing. They ought to let our opposition as well as the host, the Young Lions to share the spotlight a little. A game of high intensity in a pressure cooker known as Jalan Besar Stadium which I think I lost close to 5 pounds, from the profuse perspiration as the systole and diastole in crazy frequency for my heart. In a game we dominate in confident fashion with Indra orchestrating play up front, the 2 Canadians in full synchrony, Noh Rahman showing his pedigree in the middle and Hiro stout in defense. As for Joey, he might have taken Fabian Barthez’s gloves as he took the “butterfingers” persona in a match he seems terribly jittery. (not doing his SEA Games chance much help with national coach Raddy keeping tabs of the development of the Young Lions). While our attack were excellent with the team in great shape for once, 2 defensive mistakes saw the Young Lions putting 2 long range efforts beyond Joey’s goal. 26 seconds to concede a goal is yet another unwanted record we want for this season. Zahid who committed the mistake for Eugene Luo’s stunning goal was the only down point of a splendid individual performance which saw him putting such a sumptous cross which Murphy obliged with the 2nd goal. The 3 substitutes (Meng, Nor Azli and Farisal) did well to maintain the composure of the game, always fighting for balls they lost and despite 2 unfortunate bookings, they were crucial to play out the jittery last 10 minutes (+ 20 minutes of added time). Novice referee Johan Johari who were incurring the wrath of the Dolphins fans whole evening provided the entertainment late in the game with an extensive delay when he got a cramp on his thigh and 4th official Sukhbir Singh had to finish the game for him. Another 3 good points to lift us to 8th in the standings, 3 goals for the fans to relish and overall times are getting rosier in the Hougang camp. Well done lads, have a good rest and keep the good work at Tampines Stadium coming Sunday!