Firsts To Come
The win, while expected, was still very welcome, and
Bilal Mohammad Harun would be especially chuffed with his first hat-trick, almost two decades after turning pro. "I never thought my time for this would come." he joked. "I will be framing this match ball up in my living room somehow."
That's still about eighty ahead of both
Lim An Keng and
Chia Kwang Tse, who would taste their first goals in cup competition today. Both eighteen year-olds were over the moon too - "Scoring's a feeling you never get tired of." Lim said. "There's always the anticipation for the next one!"
Farmer Bunnies would have it a little tougher at Tanglin III.12 club Weibel United SG, although
Sunil Patel's opportunistic 15th minute goal from waiting at the left post, would make the process comfortable.
Demitri Liu would be denied by an incredible Chan Da Pin stop on the half-hour, and the one-goal lead would feel a little vulnerable, until
Vitaliy Efendiev finally shoved a second one through in the 71st.
Hardi bin Besar would run riot with four against Sweden's Certo Cito in a 10-2 bonanza, with
Li Xin Chi collecting a hat-trick of his own, after Hardi's and Rickard Månby's 44th minute consolation. Marcelino Prevot would nod another home for Certo after 68 minutes as the hosts looked strongest with the ball in the air, but it would be left to
Sazwan bin Hj Muhd Salleh to take the scoreline into the double digits, in added time.
