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[SPL] The Football Of Aleksandar Ranković According to Aleksandar Ranković | 27 Feb 2026
Quotes on football from Aleksandar Ranković:
“The most thing are the players. You can be [an] amazing coach, in terms of [making] great exercise on the pitch or great PowerPoint presentation… if you don’t have [relationship] with your players and if you don’t really understand them — not only as a player but as a person — you’re done.”
“My philosophy is always — I know it’s going to sound like a cliché — but I don’t want to concede any goal. That is the number one philosophy: no goal first.”
“For me, the most attractive football is when I win. That’s number one. That’s the bottom line. If I can win five, six, seven zero with beautiful football, great; if i can win with one set piece, one zero, same.”
“I had [an] excellent relationship with my players… that’s maybe my strength as a coach. I always have good relationship — in a good way, respectful way. Of course, I’m the coach, they are the players… I don’t treat them like kids.”
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[SGWPL] Underrated Non-Goal Scoring #SGWPL Players from MW5 | 23 Feb 2026
BGTWT No.5 Kinley Melski
Energetic and intelligent CDM performance. Outran ALBWT No.9 Fukuzawa to prevent a goal-scoring opportunity inside the BGTRWT penalty box. Popped up inside the ALBWT half to make ALBWT work for their three points. Sent so many balls to Mars.
GIWT No.1 Nurul Illyanis
Made three full-stretch, push-the-ball-over-the-crossbar saves to prevent LCSWT from closing the goal difference gap with ALBWT by another three more goals.
Honourable mention:
BGTRWT No.14 Sharifah Amira
Designated long ball / long goal kick specialist for BGTRWT. Unpressurable from years of playing experience.
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[SGWPL] Tactical Snapshot: BGTRWT 0-5 ALBWT | 21 Feb 2026
BGTRWT 7-2-1 OOP:
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[SGWPL] Tactical Snapshot: GIWT 0-6 LCSWT | 20 Feb 2026
GIWT 5-4-1 vs. LCSWT 3-1-6:
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[SGWPL] Match Commentary: GIWT 0-6 LCSWT | 20 Feb 2026, 1945hrs, CCK Stadium
- FT: GIWT 0-6 LCSWT
- 89′: GOOOAL FOR LCSWT!!!
The ball bounces around inside the GIWT penalty box. It eventually falls to LCSWT No.11 Ami Takeuchi right in front of the GIWT goal. She turns and shoots at the left corner. Goal!
GIWT 0-6 LCSWT
- 75′: I think GIWT have given up defending (in a 2024 GIWT kinda way).
GIWT 0-5 LCSWT
- 72′: GOOOAL FOR LCSWT!!!
LCSWT No.11 Ami Takeuchi intercepts a poor back pass from GIWT No.18 Rayna Balqis at the left corner of the GIWT penalty box. She shoots at the right corner of the goal and scores.
GIWT 0-5 LCSWT
- 70′: GOOOAL FOR LCSWT!!!
GIWT commit five players inside the LCSWT half to press and attack OOP. LCSWT progress the ball quickly up the pitch. LCSWT No.10 Farah scores.
GIWT 0-4 LCSWT
- 60′: CHANCE FOR LCSWT!!!
LCSWT No.11 Ami Takeuchi with a 1v1 against GIWT GK Illyanis inside the GIWT penalty box. Yanis does just enough to move Takeuchi out to an impossible angle to score from the right half-space. Takeuchi’s shot hits the post.
GIWT 0-3 LCSWT
- 55′: CHANCE FOR LCSWT!!!
GIWT GK Illyanis with yet another push-over-the-crossbar save. The GIWT crowd is suitably impressed (and relieved).
GIWT 0-3 LCSWT
- 53′: CHANCE FOR LCSWT!!!
GIWT GK Illyanis makes another push-over-the-crossbar save.
GIWT 0-3 LCSWT
- 49′: GOOOAL FOR LCSWT!!!
LCSWT No.6 Eri Kitagawa enters the GIWT penalty box unmarked. She sends the ball into the back of the GIWT goal on first touch off a LCSWT No.11 Ami Takeuchi pass from the GIWT goal line.
GIWT 0-3 LCSWT
- I am not convinced that leaving one player up front is worth the defensive tradeoff. It needs to be everyone behind the ball.
HT: GIWT 0-2 LCSWT
- 45′: CHANCE FOR GIWT!!!
GIWT No.5 Saranya Thiru almost scores from a GIWT corner kick.
GIWT 0-2 LCSWT
- 41′: CHANCE FOR LCSWT!!!
LCSWT No.6 Eri Kitagawa sends a cross into the GIWT box from the left wide area. LCSWT No.59 Amelia Tan gets a clean header onto the ball at the far post. GIWT GK Illyanis jumps and push the ball over the crossbar.
GIWT 0-2 LCSWT
- 37′: GOOOAL FOR LCSWT!!!
GIWT lose the ball in the middle of their half. LCSWT No.11 Takeuchi passes the ball out left to LCSWT No.32 Nur Ain. Ain races into the GIWT box with the ball. She curls the ball into the back of the net on the right.
GIWT 0-2 LCSWT
- 34′: CHANCE FOR LCSWT!!!
LCSWT No.32 shoots from outside the GIWT penalty arc. The ball goes just over the net.
GIWT 0-1 LCSWT
- 25′: GOOOAL FOR LCSWT!!!
GIWT long goal kick gets recovered by LCSWT No.6 Eri Kitagawa near the centre circle inside the GIWT half. She sends the ball straight towards the GIWT penalty box. LCSWT No.59 Amelia Tan gets a touch on the ball. She lays it off to LCSWT No.11 Ami Takeuchi. Taeuchi evades a tackle from GIWT No.15 Hamizah. She shoots at the left corner of the goal and scores!
GIWT 0-1 LCSWT
- 22′: GIWT No.15 Hamizah directing her teammates around like a traffic cop.
GIWT 0-0 LCSWT
- 20′: LCSWT No.10 Farah and LCSWT No.11 Ami Takeuchi taking turns to hug the touchline on the left. LCSWT No.32 Nur Ain will join them soon.
GIWT 0-0 LCSWT
- 15′: CHANCE FOR LCSWT!!!
LCSWT No.10 Farah cuts the ball back from the left half-space inside the GIWT penalty box. The ball rolls across the six-yard box and a lot of players. No one close enough to tap the ball in.
GIWT 0-0 LCSWT
- 5′: Both teams are spotting some nice tactical tweaks.
GIWT playing a 5-4-1 out-of-possession. Decidedly not playing hoofball. Trying to recover possession and counter-attack.
LCSWT flooding the front with six attackers, supported by a four-player diamond backline.
GIWT 0-0 LCSWT
- K.O.: GIWT 0-0 LCSWT
- 15 mins to K.O.: I hope we get to see the infamous 2024 4-4-2 low block hoofball GIWT tonight.
- 90 mins to K.O.: Can you imagine a world where LCSWT players decamping to join GIWT en masse, is viewed as the upgrade move?
Maybe not in my lifetime, but lean back GIWT is truly the bogey team for three-time league champions LCSWT over the past couple of seasons.
Always an interesting fixture, not to be missed.
