HUWT GK Tay Siew Yin
Fall twenty times, get up twenty-one. Tay Siew Yin could have handed her gloves off to another teammate after receiving multiple rounds of on-field treatment, but that would have reduced an already deficient HUWT down to eight players (with zero substitutes). Instead, she played on. They all did.
GIWT No.14 Humaira Ibrahim
Locked down the left wide area with a big “No Entry” sign in 2H. Contained the ALBWT forwards across multiple 1v1 duels.
ALBWT No.1 Talia Sachet
New joiner to the club, Talia Sachet, featured in six (6!) out of a total of nine clips in the LCSWT 0-2 ALBWT highlight video, putting in a complete GK performance for possibly the highest pressure game of the season so far.
Last season, when it seemed like LCSWT was signing every single high-calibre GK in the league to stand in for their injured regulars, imagine if they had locked down Sachet instead.
Coming at a time of tumultuous change to the ALB men’s team due to the adoption of localisation rules, ALBWT kept the Albirex Niigata Singapore (now Albirex Jurong) banner flying high by winning the SGWPL title last season, and by beating title rivals LCSWT 2-0 last evening in the first leg of The Choasico this season.
A team built on foreign veterans showing that age can be an advantage, a core group of local senior players balancing life while powering the team forward, and a thriving academy to tap from — ALBWT are proving that there can be more than one high-performing ecosystem at the highest level of SG women’s football.
The job is not done yet. LCSWT will keep pushing right to the end. Competition makes us all better. GIWT could do the funniest thing yet. See you at CCK!
