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12.22 -- Urwan has strained some knee ligaments in training and will miss 2-3 months, a good part of the rest of the year. That won't hurt us much unless we lose another body back there.
12.26 vs. PSBK(1-6-2, 8th) Priyono gets the start for Saputra, which will limit our midfield but he's recovering from an illness and just isn't ready to go yet. We're 6-4 favorites despite the recent struggles. I tell the guys we need to end the slide here and get back to the dominating form we showed for most of the first couple of months.
6' -- A corner gets us nothing and a tight-angle shot by Yogi is wide. Then two defenders converge, leave the ball behind, and Sutanto's long half-volley is also wide.
14' -- Long shot by Yogi, he can't control it and it's wide. That movie is getting old very quickly.
18' -- We're playing better after a poor start in midfield ... but after losing a tough battle in the middle, Putra comes free down the left side, hits a screamer cross-angle and we're down 0-1. Saragih was left in the dust and didn't even react.
Bloody ...
Another quick turnover, and it's only thanks to a heady play by Kombo that we don't concede again immediately.
21' -- Putra takes it away from Priyono, they come down and get a good shot straight on from 17, Syarif just manages to get a leg on it.
28' -- Priyono up to Sutanto, leaves it for Yogi ... blocked! He gets it back and has a crack, wide left.
Same song, different verse. All of a sudden we just can't score.
35' -- Long shot by Hadi is just wide from way outside.
39' -- They are really packing it in now, plenty willing to take their lead to the bank. Bayhaqi gets a half-volley that's wide, we're having to try and send shots through traffic and it's not working.
45' -- They gift wrap us a corner, Muda the far edge of the box puts one off the post, and they clear out the rebound. Figures.
HT -- We're just not playing well enough, it's that simple. It's a real slump now and we have to work our way out of it after getting everything so easy at the start. Saputra on for Priyono who made some mistakes but also some nice passes. Didn't embarass himself. I think Saputra can give us a half. Prasetyo on for Patay who hasn't looked good at all.
A dumb turnover, a dumber foul, and a moronic clearance straight at the sideline. That was the first 30 seconds.
Not encouraging.
46' -- Arifin has a header just outside the box, just left and into the side. Looked like a goal at first, probably should have been one.
A few minute later, they get a corner, we head it out, a volleyed shot is off the crossbar and Syarif grabs it. Minor miracle we aren't down more.
58' -- Maybe our best chance of the day, Bayhaqi's half-volley goes closer to the corner cone than the goal. We couldn't hit the broadside of ...
63' -- Wow. Yogi with a touch cross to Bayhaqi, clear header 5 yards away. Softly places it right to the keeper. Seriously?!?
65' -- Herlan's freekick from 30 had the right idea, but missed close.
69' -- Yogi open from 25 after a bunch of passing ... misses the left upper corner.
72' -- Scary corner with a couple of contested headers, then Hamka misses badly from distance.
74' -- Almost a freak goal from a bobbled cross, but it's a corner as it went over. Cleared without incident.
77' -- Yogi gets in the way of Saputra's shot, rebound to Sutanto, shot from just inside doesn't have enough mustard and Hadinsyah's diving save gets to it.
81' -- Bayhaqi sets up Yogi at the edge, cross-angle shot is just wide.
84' -- Mardinsyah's header is right at Syarif, otherwhise we were fried as he got to it 7 yards out right in front.
89' -- Long kick by Syarif, they let Bayhaqi free, he's alone into the right side of the area ... blocked away. Again he can't finish under the best of circumstances. Corner. We get nothing.
That's the match.
FT -- We lose 0-1, and now do not even resemble the club that started off the year. We can't score to save our lives. 18 shots, only 4 on target and none of them worth a darn. Iskandar Muda decided to tell the press just exactly how I blew up the dressing room. Like I care what they think.
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