[R] SoB vs AC Brilliant - Oct 13th @ 5 PM

soooo, Im assuming we lost?

 

Came up on the short end...but it was 0-0 at half, we just got worn down in the second half. Still a good effort, and I'll be back next week...looks like we are playing against teams that have been together longer than us.

BTW, how hot was #9 on the opposing team, she can score on me anytime!

Brian

 

Hey, dont worry bout it guys. We'll come away with a win next week.

 

lol; you guys have just found who the hottest girl in the league is and the reason i guest play for them a lot (I was in goal the first half yesterday). You'll have to fight off pretty much every guy in the league though if you want to get to her.

 

We just need to remember not to revert to pee-wee style play by chasing the ball around. When we play our game we dominate, when we get baited into playing the other teams game we wear ourselves down by running too much and scrambling to clear. We need to remember that we are a far better defensive team than we are offensive, so just play our own game and we should be fine. The goals will come. We have a tough game this week and we need to realize that while we may be playing down we can't deflate and just give up, as it appeared yesterday. I know that we have a good team here, we just need to come together, know our positions and play our style.


PS- Im returning next week to play forward

 

I can barely walk today...having a rough go at work

 

I think I severly injured my Groin and foot. I might just have to take the right leg off I will let you guys know how the injuries progress. As of now i would not be able to play.

Also since we lack offense would it be viable for us to go to a 4-3-3 as we are definitely a kick and chase sort of team. We really are not to good at moving the ball through the midfield. Just a thought especially since Pizzle will be at 90% and will be playing forward.

Also I will stand in line for that girl to score on me anyday

 

i am suprised you can talk with all the yelling at the refs you did.

 

wow...i am very loud sometimes...was it really that bad...cause i just like to let them know when they are wrong

 

Those refs were god awful. The one asshole had a comment to make after every goal I wanted to kick him in the mouth.

 

the guy on the farside is absolutely woeful...i have had a number of encounters with him over the years...and he has no control...at least the guys in the other team were cool for the most part...but he is even worse when the game gets chippy

 

I was actually encouraged by our midfield possession, where Corey definately helped by holding the ball and allowing our forwards and midfielders to move into attacking runs. Where have you been all this time? Are you coming back? All we lacked was that final pass or touch in the offensive third, but we definately were not used to possessing the ball as much on offense. Either way, need to make the best of it.
Once we lost the composure and communication in the back they scored a bunch, we are definately a much more capable team defensively than this game shows. Their first goal energized them. I was at the back post in the first half when their defender headed our shot off their goal line, if that went in, entirely different game.
I like E-Rock's suggestion of going with a 4-3-3, it will force other teams to take a more defensive stance and give us more options going forward.

 

(i wasnt at this past weeks game), but from the other games I have been to, i think a 4-3-3 might work, it seems like alot of the teams we face just try and flood their offensive third. If we put another foward up that will force them to keep another man back, or we will have advantage.

 

We should see how much the other team presses...the team we played a couple of weeks ago only had one guy remotely close to me when I was playing up and at midfield when the ball was in our end...if we're going to play a 4-3-3 we're going to need some big boots out of our wingbacks and midfielders to break the strikers. I fear putting an extra guy forward will loosen our really tight defense, though...

 

Yeah I hear that, it seems that our midfield tends to disapear though, not our defenders. Another scenario I thought over was playing the 3-5-2, with two defensive mids. Before everyone slams this formation, if the left and right central mids are designated to getting back and defending more so than attacking, it actually gives us 5 defenders. The left and right defenders go to the flanks when the opposition is playing for a cross, and the d-mids come back to cover the middle and close down attackers and passing lanes. I'm not saying this is what we should do by any means but just felt like waxing philosophic on strategy, anyone please interject.
I don't think we need to be overly concerned about not defending, b/c that is the one thing we have been able to do well. What we are lacking is offense. They closed us down so quickly we harldy got any shots off, also that was due to them having to throw volunteers in the net, but it didn't matter b/c we didn't shoot. If we aren't able to put teams away, they will be able to hang on like they did Saturday. It almost felt like a role reversal of our victory two weeks ago, with our team having a good amount of possession but nothing to show for it.
And on a more personal note, I'm not a big fan of 5 pm games, anyone else?

 

yea when we played Haggard and i was playing up top, they only kept the sweeper back and thats pretty much it for the middle of the field...both of the goals we scored against them, there were not many defenders back.

 

Ouch. You and Steve Francis.