A match report from the Raj Vs Tampines Rovers game, used verbatim with kind permission of the webmaster at football.rajpracha.com
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At Taweewathana practice field, Rajpracha Nonthaburi - preparing for the up coming season in Division 1 Thailand - welcomed the Singaporean side Tampines Rovers. Tampines are also preparing for the upcoming S-league season, and they will later face Muangtong United and Thai Port FC during their pre-season Thailand tour.
Vorawan played his entire career from youth to retirement with Rajpracha with exception of a few years playing abroad. Rajpracha newly hired coach Prapan Premsri was also Coach Worawan’s teammate at Rajpracha 25 years ago.
Rajpracha started the game with the first team including former S-league player Kornprom Charoonpong, Nattapol Poontawee, Sarawut Sintupun, Raewat Meerean, and Ratkan Jamparat. Tampines also started the game with stars like Jamal Ali and Ben Croissant .
Both teams played an attacking game. Jamal Ali scored two goals at 7’ and 34’. Rajpracha came back with a goal at 36’ by Nattapol Poontawee.
In the Second half,underdogs Rajpracha unexpectedly scored four more goals: Dawuda Wulampah 50’ , Sarawut Sintupun 58’ and 61’, and Narakorn Wisettanakan 76’. The match ended with the surprising result of 5-2.
Worawan Chitawanich: Today is only a friendly match, we tried a few new formations and strategies. Despite that, the result is still disappointing. We conceded too many goals in the second half. There is still a lot of work to be done before S-league starts in Febuary.
Praphan Premsri: We are buiding a good Chemistry here. We played as we planned. At this point, we are confident that we have an opportunity to get promoted to Thailand league next season. However, it’s still a very challenging season and we must not get ahead of ourselves.
After the match, the two sides agreed to arrange another friendly match scheduled for Jan 26th when four Tampines Rovers players will return from national duty.
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