Last night, we kept our playoff hopes alive with a 4-2 win over the division's new entrant, Two Left Feet. We did it on the back of three goals by Bubbles. It's a nice personal accomplishment that really helps the team.
It seemed all too easy when we scored in the first minute. Jon picked up his first tally by taking a great through ball by Jackie, dribbled to space, and launched a shot on a rope - I think he uses his toe sometimes! We had dealt an early blow to our opponent, but we played lazy into well into the second half and could have paid a price. In about the 20' minute, we gave up a score on a miscued pass, and went into the half tied. How would we respond?
Gradually, by creating more opportunities in the midfield. Midfielders supported each other and restarted the passing game. Jon scored two more goals with good service by Mike and Jer, and "Grizzy" added a nice open field goal. We were actually tied (2-2) for a period when 2LF scored on a dual effort by two good strikers. Three of our defenders bit on one of the striker's moves, and he simply passed to his uncovered teammate who put a shot in the upper 90 past Liam. That was a little scary!
While we weren't very disciplined in the match, at least we were having fun and not taking ourselves too seriously. Carlos - who was called up from the reserves - set a nice tone with some merengue moves. Of course, he's Cuban, we expect him to have rhythm.
Thanks to Carlos and Allie for joining us.
Statistically, this game was quite important. Look at our accomplishments as of Sunday:
- We kept our playoff hopes alive
- We extended our no-loss streak to 4 games
- We evened our goal differential to 0 (15:15). That's impressive since we lost games by 4-0 (with 7 players) and 5-2.
I want YOUR comments on this post. Who deserves kudos for their play? Who assisted on Grizzy's goal? How awesome are our women? I like what I saw at the end of the game - the women did the hard labor of moving the goal posts. We could get used to that.
Notes: 4-2 win versus Two Left Feet at George Mason High School on 10/21/2007. Goals: Jon (Jackie), Jon (Mike), Jon (Jer), Griz (NK). GK: Liam.
Let's just say a win and we are in the playoffs... We could logically tie and lose the 6th spot to Tsuamni on goal differential, assuming the red devils beat 2LF and Quicksilver wins. With a loss we could get in if Quicksilver loses or ties Celtic.. So many possibilities so let's just win and not have a waiting game.
ReplyDeleteAgain Heather had a seriously good play when she nutmegged their stopper in the middle of the field.
ReplyDeleteSolid Game overall, male and female, and I like that many people were able to move into different positions - a valuable skill to have when there are a lot of subs. I think everyone but Adrian played in the back - and almost everyone had opportunities in offense. Even Carlos would have had a shot if my square ball to him had been on target - next time I'll lay it on a platter so he can samba onto it.
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BTW, the photo for this post was taken by Megan's sister at our last game versus Team X.
ReplyDeleteThanks to her for documenting the skills!