Here we go! Big moment this one.
Lion City are top of the S League with a really strong record of 18-4-2 and they are into the semi finals of the Singapore Cup. So it’s going to be about the best that Singapore has to offer. In fact their only recent loss was the Sanfrecce game.
Thumped Muangthong whilst we battled with Bangkok.
This might be much more even than people think. Thy looks quality.
Also really depends which version of us show up
S.League was rebranded to Singapore Premier League in 2018 (pointless pedantry)
We’re gonna get destroyed.
Young Lions is a developmental club, a U23 squad so they often get rolled like this. Wouldn’t stress too much about that result in the scheme of things.
Costa, Lolley and Caceras really should run rings around these guys…… on paper. Synthetic pitch and high humidity will even it up a fair bit
The locals really are only interested in the English Premier League.
To be honest, their foreign contingent looks pretty impressive (excluding Wright). A german striker who played 100+ games for St Pauli and scored a decent amount of goals in the top 2 Dutch divisions, a Dutch attacker who has played for 60+ time for PSV and 90+ for Utrecht and a Belgium attacker who has played 200+ games for Brugge and Standard Liege…
They’re by far the best outfit in Singapore but their lack of competition at home does make it hard for them to gauge how to play opposition outside of their league.
Their last couple of losses have been to foreign teams - Persib (Indonesia) and Zhejiang (China) in their ACL 2 group, Hiroshima in their knock out game who they looked VERY out of depth against and to Kaya FC (Philippines) in a regional cup competition during February.
What does that mean for us? We have to understand that we should respect them for what they’ve done but also take the initiative to hurt them. Their local form is imperious but we have to take advantage of the jump in quality we represent against them.
So annoyed I don’t still have my monthly trips to Singapore… Would love to be up there this week.
I was tempted as well given it is about the same as a trip to Sydney for me but would mean I definitely can’t make a final if we make it.
So the boys better do the job purely so I can justify a Sydney trip for beers with you reprobates next month.
Our players train on synthetic every day.
They train on the field 1 (grass) no?
They also train on the synthetic behind the building as well as far as I know.
Put it this way, given they’re playing on a synthetic tomorrow night, they fucking better have been practicing on the one they have even if they don’t use it every day.
Pretty sure the synthetic field is used solely by Maxy so he can train on his own.
JBS is going to be packed out like it hasn’t been since the days of LionsXII, going to be a big one!
I went to see a match there last year. They only had 1 side of the stadium open. I wonder if they will open both sides tonight?
It would be great if they did. The time I went there and both sides were full (and the King George Stand was still there behind the goal, also full) the atmosphere was excellent.
