Central Park

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Playouts Reunited

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Central Park came bouncing back after some inept performance in their last game against Barclays Capital by thumping familiar rivals Playouts Reunited 6-0 at Bedok Green Secondary School. Stefan opened the floodgates after just 3 minutes from the spot and added his second and Sharks 4th just before half-time. Aaron found the net twice while Naoki got his name for Sharks 3rd in the first half. The most unlikely name of the scoresheet though was Michael Wong who scored his first ever goal from his goal line.

Sharks injury list look ever increasing with the likes of Kelvin and Vincent out for the game with the former out for the rest of the season with a facial injury. With Naoki back in the team after missing out on last week defeat with a sore ankle, Sharks look for further reinforcements in the form of old rivals East Avenue with Mohammad Yus, Radzly and Azri being drafted into the side for possibly the rest of the season or even further than that as the team look to beef up its team after some unfortunate injuries which has plagued the team for the season. Sharks opponents today however was a pale shadow from their last meeting in March when a whole army of 20 players turned up as Sharks went down 4-2 over at Marsiling Secondary.

Central Park started the game in positive fashion and the early exchanges proved telling as a long punt from Michael was handled in the box after just 3 minutes. Up step Stefan who gave the custodian no chance as he stood rooted from his spot. The goal seemed to spark a little life into a disarray Playouts side who was almost outplayed in every department as Brendan, Yus and Stefan played key roles in the middle of the park to stifle their opposite number. Barely 20 minutes into the game, Sharks got their second after a floater from Zhuoneng, whom was criticised for his inept display last week found Brendan who headed into an onrushing Aaron in the box and the forward made no mistake from close range. Naoki managed to end his barren run with his team's third when his fluke shot went thru a sea of legs and into the back of the net as Sharks looked convicingly comfortable for the break before Stefan made sure of the 3 points just before the break with Sharks 4th of the game.

Second half saw Sharks making a couple of chances with the number of personnel they have on the bench but the changes doesn't seemed break any rythmn in the team as they continued to dictate the game. Nonetheless, Playouts as always doesn't give up that easily as they went in search of the elusive goal to bring themselves back into the game and they had several close shaves with their closest coming off the bar which summed up their day in front of goal. Play however seemed to stall into a pedestrian stage as both teams keep missing the final pass until the 60th minute. A loose ball collected by Michael in goal as he slowly picked it up for the long punt into the opposition half. With his punt almost dead centre, it innocuously flew above the sea of players and as his opposite number began to sense danger, the custodian inexplicably punched the ball into his own net as Michael celebrated his first ever goal and probably his last as well from where he was standing. That seemed to deflate the spirits of the opposition whom before that, was fighting to get something in the game. As the clock ticked by, Asawin who was here just for a game before flying back to Bangkok released Aaron with a peach of a pass and the forward found the bottom right hand corner for his team's sixth and final goal of the game.

The beaming manager commented, 'To be winning by such a margin against an opponent who we know on their day could beat anyone, you don't ask for anything more.