Saigon Raiders Club

With the league title wrapped up, Raiders went into this game not really firing on all cylinders. A late Sunday night kick off coupled with a dickbag ref and a fiery Scotsman made for a gruelling and fiery 90 mins.
The game started slowly with passes and tackles being missed all over the pitch. Both teams had a couple of half chances, but neither keepers were really troubled. A general sense of lethargy was creeping into the Raiders whilst Fighting Cocks seemed to be more up for the fight.

Eventually Fighting Cocks deservedly broke the deadline and then added a second in quick succession, taking advantage of some uncharacteristically poor defending. Raiders had a strong attacking line up and created several chances to get back into the game, but unfortunately it looked like being one of those days as chances came and went….

The game looked to be all over after just 30 mins when the Fighting Cocks slotted home their third to make it 3-0. Raiders then began to re-shift into a 4-4-2 formation as Andy had to be subbed off for Danny H with a stubbed toe (ouchy!) and Nico moved to CB.

After the break, Raiders started to gain some self-belief as our Dutch Talisman was introduced and started to pose problems up top with Ricky the Ripper who (as always) was working tirelessly to salvage something from the game. With good work from the ripper down the left raiders managed to pull 2 goals back through Clemens to set up a tense final 10 minutes of the match. Raiders kept pressing, hoping for a bit of class or a lucky break to salvage something from the game.

Unfortunately the Ref was trying his best to keep that from happening (much to the disappointment of the angry but ruggedly handsome Scotsman) as bad decisions were consistently made in favour of the Fighting Cocks throughout the second half. Down to 10 men after an altercation with the ref, Raiders could not turn possession into a goal and the game infuriatingly slipped away and once again into the Refs wankbank for the evening….

Whilst this was definitely a very below par performance from the Raiders, Ricky and Clemens helped almost turn the game around which earned them both man of the match nominations, with Ricky pipping Clemens to it! Great work guys!

The Raiders will definitely feel comfort in the fact that we can face the Cocks again in the cup next week (hopefully with an impartial ref) and show them why we are by far the BEST team in Saigon and add another trophy to the cabinet.

Let’s fucking do them boys!!! RAIDERS!!!!!

MOTM = Ricky

Turkey = Angry Scotsman

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