It comes to 3!

On this Sunday 27^th, Akita was attending its 4^th handball game of the season at Choi Hung.

Despite some late people who almost made Joakim worry, we finally get 13 players, with a great repartition between 9 meters, line, wings and goalies players.

After a good warm up and a nice (failed) try of the French crowd to make a passing exercise with 2 balls, it was time to complain about the too long second half of the previous game.

Once that game finally finished, we made some position shooting during the 12 seconds allowed by the referee before starting our game.

Then, time to start, with the opponents to kick off first. And, amazingly, on their first attack, after a fault whistled and a ball threw away by the player, first 2 minutes penalty for our opponents (which made Mathieu totally jealous of this new “earliest 2 minutes record” in a game). Unfortunately, we didn’t take advantage of this superiority, as after 7 minutes the score was a draw 2-2.

We could have thought the game would be really defensive, but then the two teams decided to don’t miss too much shoot, to finally reach the half time on the score of 12-11 for Akita. We have to note that we were leading by 3 points 1 minute before the half time, but due to some precipitation and wrong choice in attack, we let them come back too close.

The second half started with the opponents to come back at our level, 12-12 after 1 minute. Hopefully, it was the time for us to wake up, and install a strong defense as well as our attack, to finally score 4 goals in a row. And even if their attack was really fast and well organized, they barely can’t find a good angle to shoot and had to count on some lucky goals. And from the 11^th minute of the second half, we didn’t let them come back and always kept 4 security goals between us. And even they tried to defend in one-on-one, we finally reach the end of the full time on a nice and large score of 29-23 for Akita.

I think we can clearly say that it was one of our best games, against a strong and quick team. We proposed a strong defense (and the 5-1 was a complete success), a good attack and a powerful team spirit. We now need to train on our attack to miss even less shoots, and also learn how to calm down the situation, and take the time to prepare our attack. But that’s only to be picky.

So again, congratulations to all the Akitans, we have now our 3^rd victory, and we can easily get to 5 before the Christmas break.

See you all at the training and for the next game on December 11^th!

1+1=2

2nd win for the Akita team, on this Sunday 6th of November.

We were motivated, for our 3rd game of the season, ready to show that our last victory was not a luck, but a real progression in our playing skill!
With 14 people registered on the game sheet, we even had to refuse some players, handball's rules are merciless.

We then started the game at 20.35, against an experienced DEMI team, composed of former HK national team players.
Stefan, scored the first goal during the first minute, directly follow by 2 goals from DEMI. After 16 minutes, the score was only 4-4 with 2 goals of Fabien and 1 from Joakim, proof of a very defensive game, and tough on the player. But with 3 goals in a row of Stefan, Mathieu and Jens A., Akita finally reached the half time leading by 3 goals (4-7).

Starting the 2nd half with the same players that finished the first half, Akita waited the 4th minute to score again by Stefan, who commited again 2 minutes later.After 15 minutes in the 2nd half, the score was 10-7 for Akita, but we felt that DEMI started to be tired, and could not follow our evil rhythm until the end.
Blaise, Gaspard, Jens B., Fabien and Rolf helped to establish our domination, and we finally heard the time's up whistle on a nice score of 9-16 for us. Game after game, we feel that we start to have some good combinations, and very good team spirit.

Some points to note though: quite a lot of waste on the shoots, due to too much haste in attack. Also, some players has to calm down on the pitch, and don't complain to the referees (refereeing which we'll not talk about) !

Anyway, congratulations again to all the players, keep going this way and join the training, and we'll reach the peak of popularity !!

Special thanks also to our supporters, every time more involved!

Check out the training section, we have a regular and official pitch in Mei Foo from now on till December!