An early two-goal lead was not enough for the Singapore cerebral palsy (CP) footballers as they fell to a 5-3 defeat against home side Malaysia in their opening game on Monday.
NUS suffered a setback in their title defence after a surprise 1-1 draw in a round-robin match against Singapore Management University in the Singapore University Games women's soccer competition.
Hanna scored a sensational second-half free kick to propel the National University of Singapore (NUS) to a 2-1 win over Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) in this year's Singapore University Games women's football competition.
Hosts NUS got off to a fast start, culminating in their first goal from Mohammad Ammar (NUS #10) in the 33rd minute. SIT failed to equalise with any of their opportunities on goal. Joel Chong (NUS #4) scored a second for NUS in the 77th minute, shutting the door on any possible SIT comeback.
Lai Kuan (SMU #6) curled the ball into goal direct from a corner kick in the early minutes of the match for her first goal and repeated the same trick barely two minutes later to give SMU a lead that left SIT reeling. Lai Kuan could have scored a hat trick but she smacked a free kick in the closing minutes of the game against the horizontal bar.
Singapore will field its largest away contingent of 569 athletes for a Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur this August. The athletes will take part in 35 sports at the 29th SEA Games. Four sports – cricket, ice hockey, ice skating, and indoor hockey – will be contested for the first time at the Games.
The gulf in class was evident when Fifa world No.2 Argentina crushed a Singapore side ranked 155 rungs below them 6-0 in an international friendly fixture, organized to mark the Football Association of Singapore’s 125th anniversary.
An off-colour performance from Singapore saw them crash to a shock 2-1 home defeat to Chinese Taipei in their second Asian Cup qualification game leaving them bottom of Group E with just one point.
