Akita defeats Hoi Lap 33-15 (17-5)

On Monday 19 jan 2009, the AKITA team was facing Hoi Lap for a postponed match. After few slow starts in previous matches, the coaches emphasized on starting well the match and being immediately strong in defense. This was almost respected with the exception of a first minute goal as the Gwailo team did not concede the second before the 18th minute. When attacking, AKITA was facing a high defense almost man on man. A peculiar tactics at the beggining of a match which did not work wonder with the Hoi Lap team conceding 5 goals in 5 minutes. Hoi Lap then retreated to more traditional defense slowing down the game but not reducing the success rate of AKITA too much. After 15 minutes the score was 13 - 1 and the outcome of the match did not seem too uncertain. From then some of the players were starting to think about the next match rather than this one and were giving more chances to the Hoi Lap team. AKITA conceded 3 goals in the last 2 minutes to get to 17-5 at half time. In the second half, the match was mostly about fast breaks and quick engagements. The AKITA team was working on connections with the line with Alex leading the charge and keeping the score moving. During the first 10 minutes of the second half the 2 teams were closely matched with AKITA scoring only increasing its lead by 1 goal to reach 25-12 after number 50 scored his third penalty of the day. For the following 10 minutes the AKITA team was focused again and moved away to bring the score to 30-12, the biggest gap of the match. 3 more goals for each side and the final whistle was blown. Scorers: Alex: 7, David:6, Hans: 4, Norbert: 4, Yoann: 3, Guillaume: 3, Lars: 2, Rolf: 2, Ulf: 1, PA: 1