Must feel good to place a winning game report for once, hey @cascadesoccer?
As for the real report, both teams came out ready to play. Pretty even first half. They scored off a middle of the park turnover a little against the grain of play. Our D got mixed up and lost their forward. Nice ball crossed in from the right corner to the back post, headed back across into the bottom corner. No chance for our keep.
We came back straight away. Our left back got the ball on a switch about 5-10 yards inside half. They gave him all day to set up and hit a bomb from way out. Not sure if the keep was out of position or couldn't see, but in it went.
Second goal came pretty quick after on a passing play. Forward turned I the box maybe 15 yards out of the right post and hit one. Sparta D-man tried to get a piece and it looped over their keep (somehow credited as an OG...??).
Third goal came off a cross from the right side. One of our guys played it down and our left mid managed to volley it bottom left corner. 3-1 at half.
Second half they came out strong for the first 10-15 but we really took over after that I thought. Controlled a lot of the play and worked our way into a corner kick mid-half. Our mid took it and bent it in from the corner. No idea how that ball gets in untouched (I MAY have been getting a beer from the cooler when this happened). 4-1 at that point and no looking back.
They had a couple other good chances (one massive save from our keep first half to keep it 3-1), and there was some controversy off a corner kick that the ref missed a ball trickling over the line. Either way 4-1, 4-2, it doesn't matter. We missed 3 clear breakaways so it all works itself out. The good news for @ZidaneFan is there's no amount of faking injuries that could have got his team back in it, even if he could play. Good game, Sparta's a solid squad.
Pretty even first half? what game were you watching? Royals dominated us from start to finish. We scored, they answered (and yes our keep was out of position). Maybe it was because we hadn't played in a few weeks but we were careless with the ball and played way below our ability, and obviously the Royals were super pumped to play Sparta, so they came out flying. Your keeper made that unreal save to keep it 3-1. We hit two crossbars, had that one goal not called in (no way Kyle could see it) but you guys did miss a lot of chances so that evens it out. 4-1 was a deserved score. You need a new striker that has confidence though, after missing 6 breakaways he almost passed the ball out of bounds to nobody on his 7th breakaway.
@cascadesoccer you were partially right on your report: Our center mid had a hard tackle, and kicked the ball out when their player didn't get up. 10 mins later one of our guys goes down, and instead of kicking the ball out, Royals come down the field and get a shot on net. Luckily, we are on to them and their antics, so we kept playing...
