Surviving The Lions
Grilled head coach
Tian Yonghang thought that Rob the Newbies had done well considering the circumstances. "Especially their goalie, that Ferreira - and he's only twenty years old! Keeping it down to four was an accomplishment in itself, many keepers would have conceded twice that."
"I mean, it's a realistic assessment." Tian hastily added, realizing how that might have sounded. "For what is basically a group of well-trained neighbourhood lads, they did themselves real proud."
Farmer Bunnies had a long trip away to H.A.L Division Six side Zambia lions, and got the win through a 35th minute
Vitaliy Efendiev penalty take, slammed unstoppably into the top left corner past Celso da Cunha.
Gabriel Luke had just pushed Kosi Matingou's powerful attempt away in the build-up at the other end, and the Buns would later count their lucky stars that Ntilila Chaatila smashed it off the crossbar, after being set up five yards out.
"There wasn't much separating the teams today, but we did just enough." 19 year-old defender
Amirul Jufri Khairil commented.
Grilled International fell 2-3 to Tunisian II.2 mainstays CSKA Milan Champione, who fought fiercely back from early strikes by
Helmy Syamsuzaman and
Chua Jun Long, with Mirco Jebe swinging in the decider in the 75th minute.
Redhuan bin Mohd Aleshahfezan had to go off with a badly twisted right angle, after trying too hard to get through the Milan defence, which did International no favours.
Leri Bezhanishvili did give a very good account of himself as Redhuan's replacement, as
Didi Reidenbach could not help acknowledging. "The results should come soon."
