H A R R O W B A N G K O K

That last-minute goal had put us in a better position of third in the group, meaning we would play second place of the other group in the playoff game the next morning That team was UWCE Dover and if we beat them we would be in the cup competition, where the top four teams competed for the title and promotion to division one But lose that game against Dover and we would be in the plate competition, it was all to play for the next day We were riding a positive wave of confidence after our win against UWCE East heading into our game against UWCE Dover the next morning It was an early start and from the first whistle we controlled the game, Dover was no match for our high press and LP bagged the opening goal after dispossessing the Dover defender The high press continued to work for us and Saint stepped up, like he had done so many times before, and scored a brace. Ajen Bi Zheng also popped up with a beautiful goal, cutting inside from the right wing and placing the ball into the top left corner with his left foot Dover pulled a few goals back and then got a penalty, making the scoreline 4-3, and the comfort we had felt earlier in the game seemed in danger of disappearing but Best came up from the left-sided center-back and chipped the Dover keeper and reinstating the two-goal cushion and putting us into the cup competition semi-final against BSJ later that day. Determined to make up for our previous disappointing performance against BSJ the day before we started off the semi-final in impressive fashion, showing we were much more than what we showed in our last meeting with BSJ

However, as the first half progressed that same complacency made a return and at half-time BSJ went in with a slightly fortunate but not wholly undeserved 3-0 lead

Knowing that we had been working for this all season and sensing that the team was not playing to the best of our abilities, Saint decided to take matters into his own hands His first goal from outside the box ignited a fire in the rest of the team who were now determined to pull this back It was clear that Saint was going to leave a mark on this game as he slotted in another outside-the-box finish to narrow BSJ’s lead to just one goal The momentum was clearly on our side now and when a freekick was won on the edge of the BSJ box everyone on the pitch and everyone watching from the sidelines knew Saint would be stepping up to slot it home and secure his hat trick His freekick did not go in as many expected, but it fell right back to him after being cleared and he immediately volleyed it across the goal and made the scoreline 3-3 and got a hat trick that he thoroughly deserved. The game was now in a stalemate with both teams battling it out to get the winning goal, unfortunately, that opportunity fell to BSJ who scored a goal from a cross into the box and gave them a 4-3 lead against the run of play It had reached the dying embers of the game and Harrow had a corner, our goalkeeper Pac Ractham came into the box determined to have his own Alisson moment by scoring from the cross The ball was floated in but cleared by BSJ and without a keeper in the Harrow net, the BSJ captain scored and secured a 5-3 defeat for Harrow Despite the efforts from the team and heroics from Saint Harrow had fallen in the semi-final and missed out on the opportunity of promotion to SEASAC division that we had been craving The defeat meant we would play KLASS in the third-place playoff the next morning