Travelers (0) vs Volvo Aero (5)

May 23rd, 2007 - Falcon Field, New Britain, CT

Yes you read the score right, we got crushed. They had 2 full lineups, while we had 2 subs. So what do they do? RUN RUN RUN, we aren't in shape to run like they did. Their overlapping on the weak side KILLED us. They were good at switching the point of attack and taking advantage of their over lapping player. Granted we are still out of sync, We're Travelers aren't we supposed to be in-sync. We had bad touches and passes which made them look that much better. We had players playing out of their normal positions, that didn't help much. But all-in-all I think we can walk-away from this game and take a very valuable lesson. We need more players, we are a team, we can't do it alone. Even with 11 we need subs, we're not professionals who train all day so we're not in shape. You must know your role, granted we were short players and we had offensive players playing defense and vice-versa, but when we are at full strength, don't sub in for a defender if your not a defender.

Anyway we had some good moments like Andrew (Holl) great BALL trap, ouch! Poor guy took one square in his jewels and as he's on the ground the ball gets passed at him. So he gets up to play it and basically get's run over by the defender - that was funny, just stay down. Your boys are more important than the ball esp. since it was already 5-0 at that time and probably less than 15 mins to go. Well it was 4-0 at half and we played a lot better in the 2nd half. We eliminated a lot of mistakes, (but still made some) and we ran with them when they tried to over lap. Offensively we created some chances, Zehnder made their goalie reach for a save that was good for a corner kick. We will meet this team again at the end of June - let's remember this defeat for that game, and for all the next games as we need to win a few to stay above .500 This year there's 10 teams in the league, which means 2 are NOT going to the playoffs. Let's not be one of them. Before the season started I thought anything short of the semi's would be a failure. I still believe that.

As always all feedback comments are welcome.

Record:
1 - Win
2 - Lose
1 - Tie

Goals to date:
2 - Brian Zehnder (1 pk)
1 - Gordon Hines
1 - Derek Cedar
1 - Kalee Moore