In a competitive group like this, with Uzbekistan and World Cup regular Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in this group, obviously Singapore will have to take their chances, and must be able ot cope with any types of scenario.
Yesterday night, we witnessed our Lions not exactly dominating. Lebanon were better at the opening exchanges, and it was against the run of play that Singapore scored in the 8th minute. Duric got the goal, but he should have finished the match with a hat-trick.
When Singapore scored again, it was not after the scorer, Fazrul Nawaz, had missed a total sitter, with an open goal a metre in front of him, he blasted over. This is exactly the kind of shot I would have probably made when I was not in the best of luck.
And second half... it makes me sad to talk of it, because Duric was really unlucky in striking the far post once, but he had an opportunity liek Fazrul's miss, and he couldn't quite make the stretch to make good contact and score. Sharil Ishak also totally wasted a chance. Mustafic's moment came when he lashed perhaps the only good shot from outside the box, but the keeper was equal to it.
On the whole, it was good to keep a clean sheet, but on account of the number of wasted chances, Singapore really should have taken the chance, be sharper in front of goal and win by 4 goals.
And the defence was dismal. Especially so for Precious Emuejeraye, who made no tackles, and looked lost, short on pace, unable to stop any Lebanese. Indra was off-colour in front.
There is still much room for improvement before we can survive to the next stage.
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