Out of the Woods
Goal Glut
Grilled comprehensively demolished part-timers redwood in a one-sided derby Cup match. The final result was never in doubt despite Grilled fielding just four recognized first-teamers, among them goalkeeper
Valdir Dias Paes, who freely admitted that he did next to nothing to claim a clean sheet.
With English trainee
Tapesh Chowdhury moving in a surprise transfer, Grilled relied on three products of their youth system on the wings.
Feng Darong,
Tao Tingfeng and Ahmad Tharmini were all just nineteen, but did not look out of place at all, though none of them managed to open his account for the senior side.
The first half saw Subri continue his magnificent start to the season that has seen his goal tally enter double digits after just three games.
Maikel Rotteveel was his main aide, operating slightly deeper than usual, while Tao was visibly excited at providing an assist after rounding his man down the right side. Subri also notched up a yellow card for his badly thought out tackle on a redwood defender, but there were no hard feelings as the Malaysian helped his victim up to smiles all around.
Sándor Deme recovered from his nightmare debut in central defence over the weekend, as he cut a much happier figure darting up and down the left flank. He scored after being let through by Isa Ansori bin Omar, while Spirig made it five-nil by half-time with a delicate touch.
Ivaylo Mirchev performed passably alongside Spirig in midfield, with his only glaring mistake being getting booked for some quite unneeded shirt-pulling. That was quickly forgotten after he whipped the ball into the net in the 56th minute.
Rotteveel then struck three times in succession to claim his 13th career hat-trick, before Subri chipped in yet another to make it ten. Even 43 year-old veteran defender
Lan Tuan-Mu got into the act, as the Number Two celebrated his first competitive start in three seasons with a goal - coincidentally just what he got on the last such occasion, against Equator Changi.
