And 4 in a row!

This Sunday 11^th of December, Akita’s team was attending its 5^th game at Choi Hung.

Blaise and Jens B. were still drunk of our Friday night gathering, and didn’t really remember how they get to the pitch from the club! After teasing them on their lack of alcohol resistance, we started to warm up under the sunlight (good point of playing in the early afternoon).

We then dressed up with our wonderful blue jerseys and start training the keeper for the usual 37 seconds before to start the game.

Despite the oversight of our war scream, we were fully motivated and started the game on a very nice attacked. Unfortunately, after the first shoot and goal of Stefan, one of the opponents broke his middle finger. After a few minutes to take care of him, the game started again.

Akita’s showed a very strong defense, which brings the opponents to the attack limit time on few different attacks. After 10 minutes in the first half, we were leading 7-2.

We reached the half time on a large score of 14-4 for Akita. Our attack, which is usually our weak part, was seductive and efficient, realizing some very nice combinations, especially with our wing guys who scored 50% of the goals in the first half.

After the official 5 minutes break, we were back on the pitch, ready to nail this game. Probably a bit too confident due to our 10 goals advance, our defense calmed down and let them score few goals in a short lap of time. But as usual, it was only our 10 minutes relaxing (every game has it, it’s like a tradition now) and after 15 minutes in the second half, we were leading 21-10. The last 10 minutes were just a formality for us, to finally end on the large score of 26-11.

We have to notice that the opponents did not have any substitution player, and that would have probably helped us to get such a big goals difference. But we can also notice that our regular trainings start showing results, with a very strong defense, nice coordination between the player and our attack, becoming more and more efficient game after game, with less and less waste in the shoots.

We then shared a victory beer (I mean, each person had a beer, of course), while two German were taking a shower (no one know what happened).

Some special awards and highlights: Yannick, thanks for coming during your work time to play the first half.

Wan and Felix, our amazing keepers, who show every game that they may be some of the best goal keepers in Hong Kong.

And last but not least, Tyler, the lost American, who played the second half as right wing, and for who it was his first handball experience, and a very positive one!

We now date you this Tuesday, for our last training session before Christmas, and Sunday 18^th, for our last game in 2011, at Shek Kip Mei at 19.00 ish!

See you all there!