On Wednesday 15th September, City University of Hong Kong invited AKITA to a training match. No less than 10 new players joined this first season as well as 6 players registered last year. Even better, 2 of them were goalkeepers! Welcome to Alexis, Eugene, Gaspard, Jens, Fabien, Julien, Leon, Per, Pierrick and Kevin.
In order to get some effective coaching and training, the teams decided to play 3 times 20 minutes and AKITA tried to mix old and new players to help the integration of everyone. City University used well the AKITA hesitations to win the first period (7-5) as players were a little rusty in attack and few expected misunderstanding in defense occurred.
For the second period, AKITA was looking much more like a team and ended up with a draw 9 - 9. Despite conceding more goals, it did look better in defense except on fast breaks and on attack, we could already see a certain depth in options provided by the number of players.
In the last period, there were some well crafter attacking phases and the much improved defense combined with the tiredness of City University resulted in many succesful defense including few fastbreaks. AKITA won this last period 12 - 6.
Thanks to everyone for joining this scrimmage and thanks to City Uiniversity for their welcome. We hope to organise a training next weeks and are looking for a pitch.
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