This Tuesday 30th night, the GIANTS were down to
the pitch in Choi Hung to play against Ho Kwok Pui Zhen, important game that
would decide of our ranking in first division. With 13 players on the list and
a good line up, we were quite confident and ready to win. During the first part
of the season, we played them and won by 6 goals so we thought we could do it
again.
After a good warm up and a few shots on the keepers, we
started in defense, motivated. Unfortunately, motivation was not enough and we
clearly lacked of focus. The defense was horrible, letting the opponents do
whatever they wanted, running and going through easily. And even when our
keepers stopped the ball, we let them get it back to score.
The attack was not even better, with many miss shots and
many issues to find some open positions. After 12 minutes, they were already
leading 6-1 and it was time to take a time-out to try to get us focus on the
game.
It didn’t change anything and it was still too easy for them
to score and go through, despite changing our defense to a 6-0. A few strange
refereeing decisions later with some 2 minutes penalty, we were still 5 goals
behind, trying to not make it worst.
We reached the half time on the score of 10-5, quite gutted
that we couldn’t score more than 5 goals in 30 minutes. After a motivational
speech, we started the second half same as we ended the first one, still
believing that we could make it!
And even with all the motivation, we kept giving them easy
shots and missing too many in attacks. Fortunately, we scored a bit more than
the first half and after 9 minutes, scored 5 goals more, when they scored 4. It
was then the time for the referees to get lost. With a series of 2 minutes for
us, we played almost 10 minutes at 5 and even 4 players on the pitch for 1
minute. They also liked to stop the game for 2 minutes, to discuss about
things, not being able to make a simple decision, which lead everyone to space
out a little bit.
At 22 minutes in the 2nd half, we were still 5
goals behind and didn’t score for 7 minutes. A last time-out took and we
decided to start playing. Showing what’s makes the GIANTS a first division
team, with a fantastic team spirit, we played an unbelievable defense, with the
opponents unable to find any shoots. And with some amazing attacks play, we
were back on them in the last 30 seconds of the game. But as it was not stressful
enough, the referees whistled a strange fault on the wing, and it was the full
time, with a penalty shoot to go for Ho Kwok Pui Zhen.
Pressure was at its climax, and on a wonderful move, Wan
stopped the shoot, getting a very important draw!
After a quick celebration, a powerful MUSCHI NAS, and a good
speech, we were happy to be safe and have secured our seat in first division
for the next season.
Highlights of the game, special attention to our 2 keepers
Wan and Tim, who stopped the right ball at the right time. Score could have
been much worse without them. No best scorer, but a very nice shoots, that we
would like to see more often and from everyone, from Paul and Gaspard, a great
team spirit, even in the worst times.
One more game to go, then we can say goodbye to 2012-2013
season and start focusing on 2013-2014 ones, with many news things coming!
Stay tuned!
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