The_Reverend
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PAU Selects 3 Sihk United 3
Game was ours to give away and we almost did. Went up 1-0 in the first half and carried most of the play, though to give SU credit, their new players have some skill and the team as a whole has pace. Start of second half we go up 2-0 on a brilliant play, switching the ball from left side of the field to Maximus sprinting up the right wing who hit a hard low shot past their keeper. After that, we started to drift a bit as we thought we didn't have to keep working for the next 40 minutes to keep the win. After a fluky long ball beats our keep we started really scrambling. 2 minutes later, SU is in our 18-yd box and our defense let up the hard play and they tie it up. So 2-2 now. We manage to get our heads back in the game and get a third goal with 1 minute left to end of the second half. However, we decided to sit back again and SU continued to press. An offside call (wrong of course) to me, they continue the pressure, one of their flankers gets an area of about 15 yards to himself and shanks the cross to put it over the keeps head (who was playing the cross) into the top corner to tie it up yet again. whistle calls game 4 seconds after kickoff. Tying goal comes about 2 minutes into stoppage. sigh... we need to make sure we play 90 minutes of soccer and keep our heads in the game the entire time... Stuff to work on in practice. Tough to lose the win, but at least we got 1 point (better than 0). As for SU, very annoying to play as every bit of physical play they like to fall down and ask for a card from the ref. With them crashing into us with abandon and even trying to injure one of our guys - SU player got a yellow but it should have been a red...
On to next weeks game... Hopefully, we learn from this.
And what you get for a long reply is your teammate beating you to it...
Game was ours to give away and we almost did. Went up 1-0 in the first half and carried most of the play, though to give SU credit, their new players have some skill and the team as a whole has pace. Start of second half we go up 2-0 on a brilliant play, switching the ball from left side of the field to Maximus sprinting up the right wing who hit a hard low shot past their keeper. After that, we started to drift a bit as we thought we didn't have to keep working for the next 40 minutes to keep the win. After a fluky long ball beats our keep we started really scrambling. 2 minutes later, SU is in our 18-yd box and our defense let up the hard play and they tie it up. So 2-2 now. We manage to get our heads back in the game and get a third goal with 1 minute left to end of the second half. However, we decided to sit back again and SU continued to press. An offside call (wrong of course) to me, they continue the pressure, one of their flankers gets an area of about 15 yards to himself and shanks the cross to put it over the keeps head (who was playing the cross) into the top corner to tie it up yet again. whistle calls game 4 seconds after kickoff. Tying goal comes about 2 minutes into stoppage. sigh... we need to make sure we play 90 minutes of soccer and keep our heads in the game the entire time... Stuff to work on in practice. Tough to lose the win, but at least we got 1 point (better than 0). As for SU, very annoying to play as every bit of physical play they like to fall down and ask for a card from the ref. With them crashing into us with abandon and even trying to injure one of our guys - SU player got a yellow but it should have been a red...
On to next weeks game... Hopefully, we learn from this.
And what you get for a long reply is your teammate beating you to it...