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!