HONG KONG—On Sunday Sept 18 a full schedule of 5 matches were played, 2 at HKFC and 3 at King’s Park.
The early match played at Hong Kong Football Club, Khalsa against HKFC-B, was the first run out of the season for Khalsa with a bit of a changed squad. Having brought in new players to replace several of their top players of last year, notably, Inderpal Singh, Ishtiaq Ahmed and Arif Ali, and defender Lu Peng also seemed to be missing, people were wondering how these changes would affect Khalsa’s team performance.
In the first half, Khalsa soon got on top and dominated play slotting home 6 goals. However, some of the stalwart up front attackers did not seem to be functioning as usual as many good chances also passed them by - but one could put this down to being match rusty. So it looked like it was business as usual and the gaps had been filled successfully, with maybe a hat-full of goals in the 2nd half.
The half time discussion for HKFC-B seemed to have a positive result and the second half was much more of an even contest. Although, Khalsa added a 7th goal after 5 minutes of the 2nd half, HKFC-B started playing more fluently and converted a goal 10 minutes into the half. However, although continuing to miss opportunities Khalsa added another 2 goals to finish the match 9-1.
