Friendly at Juying Secondary

19 Apr 2009 @ Juying Secondary~ 5pm
KKZ 10 Yung Ho Rangers 0 (5-0)

After netting 9 goals in the previous game, Team KKZ were in no different mood as they headed to the West Coast, with just 11 men. KKZ started the game with 10 men, with latecomer Vinnie still on the way. With Nayee starting in goal, the centre back pairing of Prem and Jeyraj were joined with Ghazali and Barathi in the left and right back positions respectively. Right Winger Haresh was joined by Sriram on the opposite flank with the returning Ismail partnering Bala in the centre of the park. The lone striker forward was the returning KKZ legend Yassin who was in a hungry mood.

Hungry Yassin didn't take long to get in the scoresheet though. He took his opening goal with much ease as he broke the deadlock within 6 minutes at the start. He then turned provider for the second goal when he released Sriram on the right flank when Sriram once again wowed everyone with a delightful chip into the goal when almost everyone expected a cross from the brilliant Brahmin from that angle. Ever since that goal, KKZ never looked back. It took them some time to get the 3rd goal though. Haresh then set up Bala as he laid off a ball only for the German to hit the bar after he unleashed a piledriver from outside the penalty box. Haresh then made a change to the scoreline for his first of the year after once again Yassin set up the goal. Vinnie then came in to set up the 4th goal and Haresh's Second. The second was also the 2nd from his left leg which was a glorious chip with his left boot into the top corner. Into the stoppage time of the 1st half, Ghazali earned a penalty and converted it to bring the scoreline to 5 at the break.

The second half didn't flow as freely at the start. AC Mungent Lan were resorting to dirty tactics just to prevent KKZ from scoring their 6th. The frustration was obvious as KKZ earned its first yellow card of the year through Jeyraj after Jeyraj threw the ball at the Goh Toh Soh (Mungent Gatusso) angrily conceding a dangerous freekick in the penalty box. The resulting freekick was blasted over by, on loan striker Peter Lee Crouch. It took some time to find their rhythm but after Sriram jinked past 2 defenders and put a cross in, Ismail made no mistake to bring the tally to 6.

AC Mungent Lan started to push their line high up the centre line which seemed to put off Nayee who was the team's forward. Nayee had some woeful misses which he will want to forget but KKZ soon found their 7th through Barathi who made a deep run and finishing coolly past the advancing keeper. KKZ continued playing to the offside trap although they were caught many a times offside. Ismail then sprayed a weighted ball, but Haresh cleverly stayed in an offside position but left the ball for Bala who made the run deep from the KKZ half, and raced clear for a one on one. Interestingly Ghazali raced forward and started to call for Bala to play the ball. He by wanting to get his 2nd actually got onto Bala's nerves after screaming for the ball despite being in an offside position. Fortunately Bala kept his calm and slotted the ball calmly to the bottom left of the goal with a veteran's cool nerves. 8-0 Kamikaze. The excellent Barathi then got his second in some style after he rounded the keeper and nestled the ball into the net. The score was turned to double digits after Nayee beat the keeper and unselfishly cut the ball back for Ghazali's second and KKZ's 10th. Nayee, epitomised the true spirit of KKZ of playing with each other rather than for personal glory, and he couldn't have done it better. KKZ then came close to conceding and losing the clean sheet but Bala blocked with a stud showing challenge which he had to get absolutely right, and he did. Ismail then cleared the danger and KKZ recorded one of the biggest margin victory in history after thumping in 10 goals and maintaining a clean sheet.

KAMIKAZE!!

Players: Nayee, Jeyraj, Prem, Ghazali, Haresh, Ismail, Barathi, Bala, Sriram, Vinnie, Yassin

Goals: Yassin, Sriram, Ghazali (2) Haresh(2), Barathi (2), Ismail, Bala

M.O.M: Yassin

Confidently but not overconfidently, Yassin steals the limelight from the other glorious 10 and rightfully so. The KKZ legend returned in style in 2009, with netting the opener and setting up a further 2 in the first half, with him being a constant menace in the opponents half. He later then got "moved" to centre back where he did excellently well again. Kudos to Yassin!