Tan Holdings still unbeaten in inter-group

Tan Holdings FC notched a win and a draw in Week 12 of the 2012 NMIFA Men’s Spring League to remain undefeated in the inter-group play of the nine-team competition.

Tan Holdings’ latest win was at the expense of SKY, 5-1, last Sunday at the Oleai Sports Complex Field. Jun Jie Cui scored a hat-trick against SKY to improve Tan Holdings’ win-draw-loss record to 3-2-0. Kwok Pun Wong and Joe Miller also made it to the scoreboard in last weekend’s tournament, while SKY’s lone goal came from Xu Zheng.

Cui broke the ice for Tan Holdings, nailing his first goal in the 22nd minute and then seven minutes later, he eluded his defenders anew for his second goal.

Neither team scored after Cui’s second goal and it took awhile before Tan Holdings found the back of the net anew in the second half, but the goals came in streaks. Wong ended Tan Holding’s silence with a goal in the 63rd minute, followed by Miller two minutes later, while Cui completed his hat-trick with a goal in the 69th minute.

SKY, which has yet to win in the inter-group play with its two losses and one draw, avoided a shutout loss when Zheng scored five minutes before the game wrapped up.

Before beating SKY, Tan Holdings came from a 1-1 draw against Paire FC on May 23. Mohamad Amzad Hossain Khan nailed the lone goal for Tan Holdings midway in the first half, while Zhi Peng Lin saved Paire from a loss when he scored the equalizer in the 89th minute.

The draw against Tan Holdings was Paire’s second. The Trey Dunn-captained squad also has one win and no loss in the inter-group, which featured the four teams in Group A and five in Group B.

Paire had its third draw last Sunday as it tied MP United, 1-1.

Ichitaro Faisao put Paire in the scoreboard first with his goal in the 27th minute and his team kept the driver’s seat at halftime and until the first few minutes of the second half.

Four minutes into the final half, Jehn Joyner broke lose from his defenders to force the deadlock.

The draw against Paire was the second for MP United, which is winless and has two losses.

In the final game last Sunday, Matansa FC stunned Inter Godfather’s, 6-0.

Kamrul led Matansa’s big win with his twin goals, while Ho Jin Woo, Hyung Jin Kim, Bir Tamang, and Dhiraj Chhetri added one each.

Matansa improved to a 2-1-0 record, while Inter fell to a 1-0-2 card.

Kamrul and company started the game slow with the former giving Matansa its lone goal in the first half (23rd minute) for a 1-0 halftime lead. Then in the second half, Matansa’s offense heated up with Woo scoring in the 60th minute and Kamrul getting his second goal in the 75th. Matansa’s last three goals were made in a span of three minutes with Kim nailing one in the 81st, Tamang firing in the 83rd, and Chhetri scoring in the 84th.