6 Feb 2016
Phnom Penh Crown 1 - Boeung Ket Angkor 1, RSN Stadium
A pre-season friendly between the two best sides in the Metfone Cambodian League. A Charity Shield in all but name particularly given gate receipts, donations into a Perspex box, to the laudable, if any times eccentric, work of the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals. In a league where teams are sponsored by dodgy casinos and amongst the regions most environmentally destructive resource any charity appreciated.
The expected grand showdown between Phnom Penh Crown and Boeung Ket Angkor in last season’s championship play-off did not materialise – the latter perhaps distracted by their fantastic run in the Mekong Cup including upsetting the champions from Vietnam.
However this was shadow-boxing. The big names – Booysen, CV11 – absent; experimental players, including a creditable seven from the Phnom Penh Crown academy, and inexact tactics.
Phnom Penh Crown the better side in a goalless first half. Exploring the flanks, with the tiny Seut Baraing down the left particularly busy, and getting crosses in. But the quality of the final ball lacking and, on the rare occasions the attacks were penetrative, the excellent Sou Yaty, the best goalkeeper in Cambodia, keeping the home side out.
Crown took the lead early in the second half the busy George Kelechi, a new signing from Asia Europe United, finishing superbly after a nice pass from another new-boy - a rare forward exertion from French defender Anthony Aymard. Nigerian Kelechi, 23 goals (a stunning 64% of his former teams strikes) last season looked tidy but has big shoes to fill following compatriot George Bisan’s departure to the V-League.
However Boeung Ket Angkor struck back: Oum Kumpheak's shot, from a nice pass by Paul Omogba, only a few letters away from a star, taking an unlucky deflection off Kok Boris and beating the hapless Keo Soksela.
Two weeks till the season begins. Crown will take more from this result and surely preseason favourites to claim the title.
Phnom Penh Crown 1 - Boeung Ket Angkor 1, RSN Stadium
A pre-season friendly between the two best sides in the Metfone Cambodian League. A Charity Shield in all but name particularly given gate receipts, donations into a Perspex box, to the laudable, if any times eccentric, work of the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals. In a league where teams are sponsored by dodgy casinos and amongst the regions most environmentally destructive resource any charity appreciated.
The expected grand showdown between Phnom Penh Crown and Boeung Ket Angkor in last season’s championship play-off did not materialise – the latter perhaps distracted by their fantastic run in the Mekong Cup including upsetting the champions from Vietnam.
However this was shadow-boxing. The big names – Booysen, CV11 – absent; experimental players, including a creditable seven from the Phnom Penh Crown academy, and inexact tactics.
Phnom Penh Crown the better side in a goalless first half. Exploring the flanks, with the tiny Seut Baraing down the left particularly busy, and getting crosses in. But the quality of the final ball lacking and, on the rare occasions the attacks were penetrative, the excellent Sou Yaty, the best goalkeeper in Cambodia, keeping the home side out.
Crown took the lead early in the second half the busy George Kelechi, a new signing from Asia Europe United, finishing superbly after a nice pass from another new-boy - a rare forward exertion from French defender Anthony Aymard. Nigerian Kelechi, 23 goals (a stunning 64% of his former teams strikes) last season looked tidy but has big shoes to fill following compatriot George Bisan’s departure to the V-League.
However Boeung Ket Angkor struck back: Oum Kumpheak's shot, from a nice pass by Paul Omogba, only a few letters away from a star, taking an unlucky deflection off Kok Boris and beating the hapless Keo Soksela.
Two weeks till the season begins. Crown will take more from this result and surely preseason favourites to claim the title.
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