The Archive · 1940

No Time Wasted

Suen's leadership in opening up ihe play gave China a 2-goal lead in the first three minutes. The first one came in the second minute, starting with a movement from Suen io Tsao. The outside-left crossed to the other side for Chang to put the ball back into the goal-mouth where Lee made no mistake to drive past Downie, In less than a minute Suen passed to Chang. The latter trapped the ball for Hyui to beat Downie with a fast grounder within ten yards of the posts, Shortly after the two early goals, Duncan missed a fine chance to cut down the margin. Chang mis kicked centre from Sims. The inside-left grounded a fast one only to see the shot roll across the goal and miss the far post by less than two feet.

Hall was robbed of a "certain" goal by Tsai right in the goal-mouth. Cochran passed ahead of the winger, but before he could shoot Tsai des-conded upon him and cleared with a sliding tackle. Later on, Hall hit the Outside of the net from a fine centre from Muir who went all the way up the field. The ball rolled across the goal, missing Cochran before going out to the winger.

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