Alone Against Dragons
The Birds would transpire to be the only Singaporean team to win in today's series, as the Welsh II.1 took the other three fixtures. That two-time Challenger Cup victors STC FC crushed The Sing Tigers 7-0 was perhaps a given, from the form they were in, but the remaining two matches could have gone either way.
newbies are newbies took the lead through Tan Chu Chao against Black Swan for one, and in fact controlled much of the game, but the Swans went two for two on their big counterattacks via Jacob Takyi and Jorge Valero. As for recent Tarian Mynydd Pen-y-fâl holders F.C. Cardiff, they had to come from behind twice against a hard-pressing Glory Paradiso that opened in the fourth minute thanks to Idhlan Abdul Fattah, before winning it late with former youth international wingback Darshan Patel's smooth penalty take.
"That had to be a hard pill to swallow."
Brian Reddy commented. "But I'm sure Paradiso did their best - they sure did against us!"
