Today we played against Revo, a China-based team which is on the top of the league last year. We started out with me as starting goalkeeper, and immediately i spotted something different this time....
Past few games, we always started out losing possessions at the middle and was always pressurized on our first half of the pitch. But this time, is was us that was containing the ball in the middle and was actually, for the first time, moving the ball around.
First half of the game, we play good contain strategy in the middle. Contain means the midfield kept possessions of the ball in the middle, thus 'containing' the ball to our self, and was at times, illustrating some clever switches and back passing to maintain possessions, and although we started out without Frank our speedy striker, and uses Ryan as a lone striker with 老崔 on the back of him supporting him, we still managed to get some good chances and runs into the box but sadly, tall and fast defenders of Revo keep us out from getting a goal. Thing wasn't too dramatic back in our defense line for the first half, the defender have done a very good job at closing down the angles and and the whole team have done well at maintaining and winning back possessions.
Second half starts, and we were on the move. The wings played very well today with Jonathan and Henry both supported the wing perfectly, while 燕航 did a fantastic job today with all the runs and tumbles he suffered from attacking whilst creating chances, a very very good applaud to him as he's almost to he's 40's now.......
This time, instead of getting pressured by other team we were the one that was pressuring on the team and keep on finding way to get past them, as from the start we introduce Frank into the game, they've been playing a very defensive style and have even hand marked Frank as the danger man to them, and once Frank got the ball 2 or 3 defenders were on he's toes. The defenders of Revo are not an easy force to deal with. They are fast, tall, experienced, and was more than capable to disable Frank from scoring goals. Unlucky to us, BQ, who have improve dramatically since the last few matches, manages to create at least 3 chances for us, 2 from fouls and 1 near-goal experience. Sadly the defenders were too much for him and Frank was unable to use his speed in this game. Revo have a couple of good shots for themselves, albeit all denied by me. Some of the noticeable effort i made was the dive out of the post to intercept a cross in from the right side of the field and into the center, subconsciously i know there was a Revo player just beside me and on first reaction i deal with the ball and managed to push it out to the middle for the defenders to clear. And after awhile i managed to get a touch on a free kick and send it over the bar. Nonetheless, final whistle blowed, and i was extremely glad i got my 2nd clean sheet in a row and is now 140 minute un-scored.
Some points i think we can improve, is that the midfield have done a superb job on possessions, but still doesn't quite follow up to the winger when they crosses in. Although doesn't quite follow isn't didn't follow at all, they've surely improve and is now a working motion when we're attacking, but they need to learn to position themselves across near post and far post. As there is one chance today, where the opponent's defender made a mistake, and should there's someone on the far post, we would have gotten a goal. The other thing is, to overcome the dependent nature of us towards Frank as a sole striker and goal scorer, we must develop a Plan B, just in case the opponent we meet in the future does a good job in disabling Frank, in another words, we should deploy more variety in our attacking, whether its from set pieces, runs, or even from free kick and spot kick, when these chances are presence, we must assure that we can score from them. Football is a game of varieties, and most of the times, what works well last game wont work again on the next game, which is why we canot rely on solely one method and the same kinda player all over again, during the whole duration of the league.
Today's game have re-assured some of the uncertainties in my mind of the team's dynamics, fuck today we play a better game then some of La Trobe's game. Nevertheless, even though we ended up 0-0, it was a beautiful game, and it was worth playing, even it doesn't ended up with a winner.
Number of minutes un-scored: 70 (140 for me)
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