A massive turn out of 23 players gave player manager Nantha a pleasant headache with selection which he would have sorted outne night b4.
WAGs and families turning up as early as 6pm...added to the glitz and glamour of the much awaited Glamour Game. This also gave e team ample time to prep and warm up.
Match kicked off with ACMR FC wearig their usual blue kit on their very familiar home ground..UN1TED had e early initiative with Tupac hitting a testing shot wide..UN1TED almost took e lead moments later when an incisive cutback from e new groom Ibrahim found Shaheer who missed e goal by a hairline!!
The 1st goal came after 13mins when a counter attack by ACMR found e net and finally beat Latiff Mama in goal..that shook UN1TED who conceded another soon from e restart..Mama denied the opponents on 2 occasions before he was lobbed for the 3rd.. UN1TED go on e backfoot after a brilliant 3min spell by ACMR...Suresh who had been marauding e right wing back role found BC who did well by holding up play and released Vignesh who shot straight to e keeper. Ariff announced his intention to get the game going with a crunching tackle to delay e blue onslaught which has been marshalled by him Vinod and Omar with Ashiq playing e destroyer role...ACMR get the 4th from another counter after UN1TED threw caution to the wind and launched forward to grab e game back...and were duly rewarded after another run by suresh found vignesh who cut it across for shaheer to smash a missile into e top left corner..Goal!! 1-4
Mama denies ACMR on 2 more occasions before a resulting corner was dropped for e 5th despite the brave attempts of Suresh to clear e line.
Nantha kept his halftime talk simple.. we were down 1-5... we have fans who need something to cheer on...i have fighters waiting to return to battle! The entire 2nd half team got the point...kill or be slaughtered.
30secs into e restart Anand found a superb ball from Ganesh Tiger and went on a brilliant run which had a certain goal put wide...the layoff from injury had some rust but Anand was ready for battle...
With e backline pairing of Sathia and Andy covering Muizz, Captain Raman had e freedom to raid e wing..with Aslam licensed to surge forward supporting Jason upfront. Yusuf was proving to be an immovable object with Ayub covering and Tiger prowling e middle leaving Daniel to orchestrate e play in the Triquasta role.
5mins into e 2nd half and UN1TED win a freekick. Sathia floats a beauty which finds Aslam to shimmy and shammy before curling it home, Goal!!!
Aslam gets into e book for dissent with the referee.
UN1TED pile on e pressure and on the 65th min...Yusuf causes havoc with a curling cross which caused the keeper problems..Jason was fastest to e rebound to turn and slot it to make it 3-5! Goal!!!
UN1TED scored the goal of the match with play starting from Andy and Sathia before pushing up to Ayub and Aslam who found Daniel who made a neat 1-2 with Raman for him to fire a howitzer into e top corner..,Goal!!!! 4-5 !!! Game On!!!
UN1TED pile on e pressure relentlessly with Tupac and Aslam causing the blues problems with their wingplay and teasing crossers...Vinod came on to add to the attack which freed up Daniel to partner Jason and get e equaliser...
3mins from time...Aslam threads a superb thru ball to Jason who seemed to push it a lil too far but he composed himself to slot it pass the keeper from a tight angle...Goalazo!!!!5-5!!!! UN1TED has risen!! The crowd was roaring at e comeback!!
They almost had the winner moments from e final whistle when Aslam tried a lob with his new boots only for the crossbar to deny him...whatta game!
Goals - Shaheer 26th min, Aslam 50th min, Jason 65th min, Raman 71st min, Jason 87th min
Yellow - Aslam ( Dissent)
MOTM - Nantha for e motivating talks and sacrificing his game time.
