Travelers (2) vs EASC II (5)

July 11th, 2007 - LP Wilson, Windsor, CT

If only we can score on all our possessions. We took the opening kickoff and we passed to the open man until I was given a beautiful ball to volley in from about 25 yards out. Their goalie had no chance of saving it. Then we relaxed a bit, they applied a lot of pressure and little by little they found what works, they dumped the ball into the corners and they chased it and with 2 subs (1 after Derek got hurt) they wore us down. They score 3 easy goals in the first half. Yeah we all played on Monday and probably still not 100% recovered. And yeah it was another hot & humid day for soccer. But there's no excuse for standing around watching when you could at least walk towards the ball when it's passed to you. GO TO THE BALL. Crisp passes, how many times did we try to make a pass that just was weak or off target? Play simple like the kickoff. We didn't make a pass longer than 10 yards and we moved the ball up the field and had a shot ON GOAL and we scored. Defense wins the ball and they pass to the midfield NOT long ball over the top to the forwards. If it's there then yes by all means make that long ball pass. But if that's all we do it's not gonna work.

Half time speech. Was I not clear in saying that we're losing 3-1 why not take some chances on offense? We needed to attack and attack. But some players were walking up field. Even when someone yelled "Get Out" the ball got returned to their player and they were on-sides. If you GET OUT then they would be off-sides. We finally attacked and what happened? We scored? Jared had a nice shot from about 20 yards out. So we scored 2 goals. Mine from about 25 and Jared from about 20. So why not take more shots? Test their keeper. Anyway the score was 4-2 and we kept attacking and had a few good chances. We should have done that the first 15 mins of the 2nd half not the last 15 mins. When you take your chances on offensive the defense becomes weaker, and they scored their 5th goal. I believe it was one of the classic GET OUT and someone didn't.

Well I guess we're learning a lot of things this year but when are we going to start using the experience from these games? Crisp simple passes, shots ON GOAL, get out leaving them offside, attack when we have the ball, make runs, etc. etc. etc.

Record:
4 - Win
5 - Lose
3 - Tie

Goals:
1 - Marco DeMarco
1 - Jared Krechko

Goals to date:
6 - Patrick Nevins (1 pk)
4 - Marco DeMarco
3 - Derek Cedar
2 - Brian Zehnder (1 pk)
2 - Gordon Hines (1 pk)
2 - Kalee Moore
2 - Tim Carlson
1 - Alex Kushnir
1 - Mark Devito
1 - Jared Krechko