Monday, April 23, 2012

Play off - Second game!

Remember the first game of this season. We started with a lost, by 1 goal difference against a good team, HKIED. At that time, we were not really drilled, a few new players joined, Joakim was starting his new “grab-the-ball-on-a-9-meters-foul” technique… Many good excuses we repeat whenever we had to mention this game.

But then came the revenge, the 2nd play-off game between the 1st (us) and 3rd (them) team of the 2nd division. Needless to say we were fully motivated and ready to show them the first game was only a mistake.

With also a game scheduled in the early morning (11.30am) there was no hangover allowed! Hopefully, we played indoor, so we didn’t have to suffer of the heat!

We had the time for a good warm up but also a hard time choosing our jersey (White? Ok, but old or new ones? Old, we don’t have enough new! Yes, but the new ones make my eyes brighter! ...).

Then, it was the time. After the motivation speech from our leaders, team composition and our war scream, we entered the pitch and were ready to give our best.

The first 10 minutes were, especially for the substitution players, a real nightmare. Despite an amazing defense, which limited our opponent to score only 3 goals during this lapse of time, our accuracy in attack was close to 0. We didn’t make the count, but we can easily say that after 10 minutes, we could have lead by 7 or 8 goals if we had scored all of our shots. But no, the score was only 4-3 for us.

Finally, the next 10 minutes were more like a dream. The defense was still excellent, and whenever the opponent finally went through, Felix was here keep his goal clean. And we reached the half time on an impressive score of 11-5 for us.

But even with 6 goals ahead, it was not the time to lose our focus and let them make a comeback. With a few substitutions for the beginning of 2nd half, the intensity didn’t change at all, which is a really good sign for the 2 last games but also for next season in the 1st division.

Defense was still very good and our attack showed some nice combinations. After 17 minutes in the 2nd half, we were leading 20-10 and our opponents were disgusted. They stopped playing in attack, powerless to find a solution to score.

End of the game, 25-11. Akita clearly sent a message to his 2 last opponents: “We are ready and the 1st place is ours!”.

We’re now sure to go up to the 1st division, but we need to fight for the 1st place of the division! Let win our 2 last games and that would be alright!

Welcome also to Herve, another French guy who clearly helped us on this game!

Next games will be on 29th and 6th of May! Keep tuned for the good news!

2 comments:

Stef said...

Just brilliant! Love your comment:

(White? Ok, but old or new ones? Old, we don’t have enough new! Yes, but the new ones make my eyes brighter! ...)

Yannick said...

Let's get the first place now !!!

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