Rafarrell Benitez has spoken for the first time after the club's 2nd heaviest defeat in it's history. " We played well, and the scoreline gave too much credit to the opponents. In the first half, we were better. We camped in their half and hit the post twice. However, the defence was a total disaster." Rafarrell was seen fuming at his defence which used to be stingy, become a little too generous. "Yes, i am angry. But one of the players, the one with big teeth, made me angrier with his comments to the press ." It was possibly aimed at Ronalidinho, who released match reports to the press, without getting his facts right. Opponents scored first, before Jas "suck" Deep Singh equalised with his wonder goal. And the first half ended 2-1 to the opponents. But the start of the 2nd half saw the kind of football that Benitez has been trying to instil into his players. Straight from the kick-off, the ball was stroked around as the likes of Long, Huda, Yong Xiang ventured into opposition territory. Finally, Thaqif applied the finish with a cooly taken strike from 25 yards out. That's the kind of football champions are made of. But, it was shown only in glimpses.

Ronalidinho angered Benitez again, when he released team tactics and information which was supposed to be confidential. "I can't accept such promiscuous behaviour with the media, and yes he will be punished. The club will send him to the dentist next week." And speaking of tactics, once again, we have crumbled to what we call long ball tactics from the opponent. Considered more effective, but less pleasing to the eye. "We will not employ the use of long balls. No. Never. We did it in the first half. Just that the 2nd half we were hit hard on the counter-attack and long diagonal balls, with everyone pushing up in search for goals. Next thing up, let's look to stamp our authority on the game with our brand of football."

"If God wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there." -Brian Clough