SANTOS FC 1 - LAS UNITED FC 1

Santos FC played its second match of the HFA 2007-2008 DJ League Division 1 against Las United FC in the morning of Saturday 6th October 2007 around 10.00am at the KGVI North Field.

The match was evently battled out during the first half in the blistering heat. The Las United FC midliefld was fast onto the ball each time the Santos FC midfield wanted to control the ball and did not give Santos midfield the chance to dribble - a tactic which worked to Las United FC's advantage and which prevented Santos FC midfield from making any through passes to its strikers and scoring any goals in the first half.

In the second half, Las United FC opened the scoreboard from its unmarked left flanker on the blind side ( a similar type of scoring that Junior Flamingo FC made against Santos FC in its first match) and began to play more confident football.

This did not prevent Santos FC boys to regroup and build up on their attacks against the defence line of Las United. This paid off somewhere through mid way second half when a korner kick has been forced upon Las United defenders trying to contain the Santos speedy right flanker Leslie Haikau. A Leslie's well-taken corner kick came from a scuffle in front of the goal mouth perfectly onto the waiting boot of Santos defender Luke Ha'atarea who wasted no time in quickly blasting the ball passed the Las United FC goalkeeper's lefthand side.

Santos looked to be more in control of the match after their equalizer in the second half and searched tirelessly for the winning goal but Las United FC also put up a strong defence line and were made to work extra harder not to concede any further goals. The scoreline was tied up at 1-1 draw at full time.

Prior to this match, the Santos boys had gone into camp at the Club Treasurer (Mr. John Keniapisia's residence) on the night of Friday 5th October 2007 (Pictures of the said camp and the Santos -LAS United match can be seen in the pictures section below).

More updates will be coming up in relation to the next two matches for Santos, that is, against Lau Valley FC and Kolei United FC