MATCH 11 Evergreen United 0-4 Kakibangku FC

The highlight match of the day....Kakibangku FC 4-0 Evergreen United...

We started the match without our captain and another important defender, this turns out to be disaster as we have our defense line unorganized, and therefore we are 2 goals down from 5 minutes onward....

Throughout the whole game Kakibangku FC dominated us in the form of ball control, ball movement, positioning, and physical strength. Although they aren't the fastest, their speed is still a killer amongst us especially the aged players. But bottom line, their long ball and positioning is the one that clearly separates the level between us. We play sophisticated, ground ball and involves tighter positioning with more touches; Kakibangku FC plays simple, long ball with wide positioning, the opposite of us, and the better of us. While their midfield plays a contain style football magnificently....from my point of view, this team is clearly on State 3 level...

From long ball, their physical sizes outplayed all of us and is always the dominating party in the midfield due to their large size players. From center onwards we have no chance of penetrating their even better defense, but however we try from the sides and Logan was clearly defective againts them today as he's speed was clearly slower then the opponent's wing back. All the Kakibangku players were versatile, fast and agile enough to play very good long ball, typical Malaysian, we learn to play long ball before ground ball....

By second half we were 4-0 down, and the fact that we player a flat-4 defense is mostly the thing that we needed to improve more. Things would have been better if we had played a Last Man in the back, with 3 other defenders up front. This would have been a more defensive defense tactic, and we needed our captain for this formation but sadly, he wasn't free today. A flat-4 defense is a more attacking defense, the theory is that once the centerback has gotten the ball he has a wider option to pass and the wing back is directly open to start the attack. In this case i think our team underestimated the importance of positioning and long ball.....

Although we missed 4 balls, it doesn't matter much as the most we can get out of them was a tie, and even that, we canot achieve, let alone say win.