June 27, 2020
Taichung Blue Whale vs Kaohsiung Yangxin (
10.00 local/3am UK time )
New Taipei Air Source vs Taoyaun International ( 14.00 local/7am UK time )
Taipei
Bravo vs Hualien (
16.30 local/9.30 UK time )
All
matches at the Taipei Municipal Stadium
This week
sees the top two sides in the Taiwan Mulan Premier League face each other with
Taipei Bear vs Hualien at Taipei Bravo's home ground, and this is the English
commentary match for Saturday. Unbeaten Hualien bounced back from their
surprise 0-0 draw with Kaohsiung, which was Kaohsiung’s first point of the season
and could easily have been three points, by thrashing New Taipei 6-1. In that
match Shi Ping notched a hat-trick whilst Wen Lin scored twice. Both girls have
now scored 7 times this season and one feature of Hualien’s play this season
has been the unselfish play of these two.
Taipei
Bravo lost their unbeaten record in Round 8, losing 1-2 to Taichung Blue Whale
after taking the lead. Also known as Taipei Bear, they have only conceded 5
goals so far this season, but scoring is more of a problem, with only 13 goals
in 8 matches, and no player has scored more than three times. The first match
between the two sides earlier in the season ended 2-2.
Taichung
Blue Whale have won four consecutive matches and have the leagues two top
scorers. However, they have been suspect at the back and have given away
several poor goals through either goal-keeping errors or poorly defended
corners. Kaohsiung, also known as Sunny Bank for sponsorship reasons, are
improving and should have followed up their unlikely draw with Hualien by
drawing with Taoyaun in Round 8, but a missed penalty ( think David Beckham vs
Turkey in 2003 ) and an open goal miss meant a 1-2 defeat. This will be a good
gauge of their improvement, having lost 1-5 to Taichung first time around.
New
Taipei vs Taoyaun is a battle for fourth place. New Taipei have lost four in a
row but Taoyaun will be buoyed by their victory over Kaohsiung. The first
meeting finished 1-1.
Top
Scorers
P. Hsin
Hsuan 10 Taichung
L. Hsiu
Chin 8 Taichung
W. Shi Peng 7 Hualien
T. Wen
Lin 7 Hualien
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