Thursday Night At East Coast (1) - 9 February 2012
Posted by Jeff Salleh Feb 10, 2012 9:06:50 GMT 8
Post by Jeff Salleh on Feb 10, 2012 9:06:50 GMT 8
Both teams took to the field with whites playing with one players less in the first 10 mins. Whites setup a defensive stand with murray, chen hong, jeff in defense, chih seng and kelvin up top and Justin in goal and tried to hit on counters. Whites drew first blood and reds equalized shortly after, whites pushed on and got a second and reds pegged whites back with a soft goal.
It was even-steven in the overall play and the score reflected the balance at 2-2. Whites then pulled away to open up a significant lead. Reds scored a few goals to breathe down the white's neck and the score was 6-4 at one point. A second surge of whites' goals buried the reds making the final score 5/6 goals more to the white.
On paper the team looked almost balance however whites showed up and settled in quickly and stuck to their game plan throughout the contest. Communication was key to the whites with everyone giving instructions to each other to trackback, time, man-on and urging to attack the space. Kelvin was the MOM for whites; in fact MOM for the game with his hustling offensively and sticking in goals and even got one with his right foot and hardly put a wrong foot yesterday. Throughout the night whites was stable, closing down folks quickly - one example was three white players dispossessed Alex at mid-way, did a rapid counter, quick inter-passing and stuck the ball at the back of the net. That was how it was with white's play yesterday.
Reds was almost all over the place, defense was stretched and did not attack as a team as solo runs or balls down the channel were wasted most of the time. No one took control of the midfield leaving easy second ball to be picked up by the whites. The goals whites got to peg the reds was the only time some interplay happen among the red players and also a bullet grounder by Rai.
All in all, i think the team with better organization and communication won.
It was even-steven in the overall play and the score reflected the balance at 2-2. Whites then pulled away to open up a significant lead. Reds scored a few goals to breathe down the white's neck and the score was 6-4 at one point. A second surge of whites' goals buried the reds making the final score 5/6 goals more to the white.
On paper the team looked almost balance however whites showed up and settled in quickly and stuck to their game plan throughout the contest. Communication was key to the whites with everyone giving instructions to each other to trackback, time, man-on and urging to attack the space. Kelvin was the MOM for whites; in fact MOM for the game with his hustling offensively and sticking in goals and even got one with his right foot and hardly put a wrong foot yesterday. Throughout the night whites was stable, closing down folks quickly - one example was three white players dispossessed Alex at mid-way, did a rapid counter, quick inter-passing and stuck the ball at the back of the net. That was how it was with white's play yesterday.
Reds was almost all over the place, defense was stretched and did not attack as a team as solo runs or balls down the channel were wasted most of the time. No one took control of the midfield leaving easy second ball to be picked up by the whites. The goals whites got to peg the reds was the only time some interplay happen among the red players and also a bullet grounder by Rai.
All in all, i think the team with better organization and communication won.
