MSL Feb 16th Terengganu VS Perak: Predictions

Tonight’s match over at Kuala Terengganu should be interesting. I have reasons to believe that Steve Darby, the glamorous British Perak soccer head coach is pissing in his pants at the moment. He’s probably giving out another silly blame-it-on-the-pitch excuse (I will cover this in the future) to the Malaysian press.

Why is he pissing in his pants then?

Easy… Perak will be playing against Terengganu at their formidable home ground tonight. Let us take a look at Terengganu’s past home matches, let me warn you that their records are impressive. Definitely much better than Perak’s!

Terengganu has played 6 home games and they have won 5 and drew 1. Overconfident Perak soccer fans may think that Terengganu is an easy meat for the big-butt Seladang but the Turtle is no easy prey in Kuala Terengganu. As matter of fact, Terengganu has beaten top Super League teams there. Kedah lost 3-1 and Negeri Sembilan Naza also lost by the same goal margin to Terengganu!

Yunus Alif is a good coach and he’s a great tactician too. Like what I said in my previous post, Yunus Alif could not do much for Terengganu this season because he did not have the right kind of players that could do his bidding on the field. His players however seems to perform extremely well at home, their eccentric soccer fans could have motivated them to play well and that is a major bad news for Steve Darby and Perak.

Yes, tonight’s match will be interesting indeed. Perak will play in desperation, desperate to salvage their British head coach’s battered pride and Terengganu will play like devils possessed, eager to seek revenge and tear Seladang apart from horn to tail.

On paper, it looks as if Perak should win tonight but numbers and figures could not determine the other mysterious winning factors, team morale and fans support. That are something that Terengganu had in abundance over in Kuala Terengganu. Terengganu is doing great guns at home and I’m sorry to say that Perak is no real threat for them there. I will say that Terengganu will win quite convincingly tonight. Yunus Aliff knew Perak like the back of his hands and he should be able to come up with the right game plan and soccer tactics to beat Perak.

As a Perak soccer fan, I’m hoping that Steve Darby can turn the odds around and bring full points for Perak. It would be a miracle if Steve can do that tonight. By the way Steve, don’t forget to try out Terengganu’s special delicacy while you are there, turtle eggs! :-)

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