HK GIANTS vs Wai Tou

This Sunday 6^th of October, we were down at Choi Hung Road to play against Wai Tou, team that finished 3^rd of last season league.

After a first difficult game against YMCA, we were hoping to show some better things and also see the results of our trainings.

A few kits issue and a quick keeper warm up later; it was time to start with the ball. The first minutes showed a very intense defense on our side, leaving the opponents without any solutions. Unfortunately, our attack was still in lack of accuracy and despite some good chances, the ball never ended up in the net. After 7 minutes, the score was only 2-2. Then, we started playing too fast and fancy in attack and giving away a few easy fast break to our opponents and they flew away, leading 7-2 after 14 minutes. Thankfully we stopped the hemorrhage and scored 3 goals in a row to get back in the game. The 10 last minutes of the first half saw us missing a lot of easy goals in attack, and despite a good defense, some mistakes help Wai Tou to go to rest with 5 goals lead (12-7).

Back on the pitch, motivated to show that the first half was only a mistake, we scored the first goal immediately. But for some reasons, so far unknown, we stopped playing, doing mistakes after mistakes, both in attack and defense. With many fast break and easy shots, Wai Tou was leading 23-11 after 20 minutes. Not expecting much for the end of the game, we decided to try new things, use it as training. Unfortunately, it didn’t work better, as they scored a 6-2 in the last 10 minutes, reaching the final whistle on the bad score of 29-13.

Needless to say that there is not much to save from this game, many mistakes, lack of focus and terrible accuracy. We played the first half not too bad, but only to completely disappear in 2^nd half.

A few highlights though, to our keepers Jake and Jack, that stopped many shoots, Paul, JunHo and Chen, best scorer of the game with 3 goals each and Florian, for his first red card of the season. Next round on you, mate.

With a few more trainings coming, we need to practice basics and accuracy to avoid fast breaks and bad shoots. But with many new players this season, we need time to adapt to each other and no doubts we will soon get together and show our real potential.