2011 is over with a last win...

And we’re done with 2011 games!

This Sunday 18th, Akita was playing his 6th and last game of 2011 at Shek Kip Mei. After meeting in the MTR, we decided to trust Wan’s shortcut one more time (despite our first bad experience at the same place few months ago) and found the sports centre without any problem!

We get changed and waited for our last players, Fabien coming from Thailand to play for Akita (to prove that we are a renown international team) and Blaise who probably would like to attract attention on him for his last game by arriving late (but he’s also French, so his late attitude has an excuse). We then started warming up, and had to note that Joakim, who usually run with us, was warming up on the other side of the pitch, right in front of his family. We let you find the conclusion of this.

And unlike all our previous games, we had almost 5 minutes to shoot and warm up our goalies!

We started the game in defense, definitely fully motivated to nail this game, and show our incredible power. Due to a very offensive defense from our opponents, we created some very nice combinations and nice moves which made us lead 7-3 after the first 10 minutes. But then, the Akita’s usual strong defense started to had some relaxing time, leaving more space and freedom to the opponent’s attack, and without a good Felix and their lack of success in shoots, they could have came back. At the same time, our attack had the same kind of problem, missing some easy shoots and penalties. The half time was welcome on the score of 13-10, to let us take a deep breath, and concentrate again on the second half.

Unfortunately, the second half was kind of similar as the end of the first one. A defense not really focus and the quickness of our opponents helped the score to grow quickly on both side. They then tried a 1-on-1 defense, expecting that it would break our combinations but at the opposite, and thanks to our fast players, we used this lap of time to increase our advance. They understood after 5 minutes that it was not a good operation and came back to a more normal defense. But with a 6 goals difference 10 minutes before end of the game, they were probably not expecting much. We finally reached the end of the game on a flattering score of 27-21, which doesn’t really show that our defense had really a tough time against such quick players. Some good points though, we saw some very inventive and nice combinations with the line players, our 5-1 defense still interesting with Fabien playing the “1”.

Our main problem will be now, as the last season, the lack of 9 meters players. As Blaise is leaving us by January, our contingent of back players stills not enough and we are really looking for some new players.

Talking about new player, we would like to welcome Arnaud, French guy, who will join us as line player (another one!!). Hope you’ll have a great time with us (and don’t mind Joakim, he’s barking but he’s a nice guy).

The next game would be held on January 8th, against Phoenix, 7.10pm at Choi Hung.

We don’t know yet if we’ll keep having a pitch to train in 2012, but keep tuned, and we’ll updated as soon as we know!