MATCH 1 Evergreen Utd 0-0 W Crusade

Sunday marks the beginning of our league matches and our goal of going up to Division 1. We face up first with W Crusade team, which is a Hong-Kong based team that is comprise of an average of 30 years old hard tackling big blokes, but just that, nothing more.

We started our game not so strongly, mainly the wind factor plays its part as we are facing the wind, big wind made it, and we have difficulties getting the ball over to half way line. Even though it seems as they maintain the most of the possessions and pressure we stayed on strong with some good defending. But lacking firepower means they didn't have much menacing tries as well. Into 2nd half, advantage point should be on our side, as we are playing in favor of the wind now, but unfortunately, theres alot of times where high through ball should have been played and were never executed, instead ground passes were made and we end up have to 'wrestle' with the opponent's players to get through, but however, we do have a few great chances in getting goals but luck wasn't on our side and we settled the game 0-0 and with no major injury except one inflicted on Henry.

The midfield and the strikers didn't much excel that day as not much controlling and contain of the ball was done by midfield, as well as too much unnecessary passes nor mention the follow up and supporting for the strikers, and ended up our attacking being too slow and the we are caught up in the opponent's defense yet again.