September 23, 2007
Romania’s third game, we required to win this to stay in the vicinity of group leaders.
But we floored when we heard we’d have to play without our best 2 players. Rupert got a dent in is leg, so his mechanic advised him to take rest & James had to attend his AGM.
Before I start my review, I would like to address a point. Somebody was commenting that we play for recreation. Let me correct that dude, we play for “Passion” more then recreation. Its passion for the game, passion for the team.
For the first time, we were all geared up well before time & first time this season we had a good 5-10 minutes of warm-up.
Line Up: -
Goalkeeper – Lynston
Defense – Salvito, Ian, Baptist, Valario
Midfield – Rohan, Jason, Milton, Raphael
Strikers – Rudy, Crispin
Subs – Ardilus & Avron
Romania FC 1
63” Raphael 0 Catholic Welfare Association
This was the best game we played, that too without 2 of our best players.
First Half: -
We started beautifully, passing & moving the ball really well. The main thing was that we were playing to our positions.
We made some good moves & our defense was rock solid, with Lynston commanding the goal.
We had couple of decent (slight difficult) chances: -
· Baptist drills a free kick into the opposition penalty area, Raphael didn’t get a proper connection & it just misses the goal narrowly.
· Crispin crossed a delightful ball over the defense, Raphael almost got to the ball, but it bounced wickedly out of reach of his head, so tried to score a hand of god like goal but was spotted by the referee, who gave a hand ball
Rohan was (according to me) the best player of the first half, he running up & down the flank & making some really good moves.
Jason stuck to his role of holding midfield pretty well, he was the shield for the defense, until later part of first half, as the entire opposition attack were coming down from the center & Jason was found wanted. The opposition were taking shots from the center but Lynston was up to it.
On the whole Jason had a very good game (especially in the second half). I believe this a very crucial position, which Romania requires & the captain did a good job & should stick to it.
The most enjoyable incidence of the first half was as follows: -
Ball bounces over Ian, opposition player reaches towards the ball first, Ian goes charging in and pushes him with both his hands. That poor skinny lad of theirs flew nearly 5 feet. All gather around, start abusing (not for the last time). I dragged Ian out of it, referee took Ian in the side & explained him without showing any card.
Both sides were playing good football & the first half ended in a draw.
Second Half: -
Milton nominated himself out for the second half, this gave our new signing to perform, so in came Avron. He was fitted along side Jason in the heart of the midfield. I was quite impressed by this youngster’s performance. His defensive & free flow passing game was very fresh. This made a great combination of youthful zest & good’ol wisdom in the heart of the midfield.
Suddenly middle of the second half Rohan nominated himself to get substituted, it was puzzling to all, why did he go, specially when he was playing so well.
The Goal: -
It was a really good move, started from defense to attack. We won the ball in the defense, I released it for Avron on the left flank ahead me, who combined very with Crispin, both played some good 1-2’s, then they pushed the ball to Ardilus, he pushed it a bit ahead to Rudy (all this on the left flank), Rudy then centered the ball towards awaiting Raphael, who had to just pushed it in the nets……….goal…………….
Defensive Strategy: -
Now that we were in the lead, we had to defend our souls for it. We were all defense then we knew, we can take this out, Raphael as well fell back to help out the defense. There was lot of shouting going on between baps, valli & Jason. Things were getting heated, as the opposition were getting frustrated, we didn’t give them any chance to play fluently. There were some arguments between some opposition players & baps, argument translated into abusing, valli jumped in as well, this was all good for us, as we were running the clock down.
We held on & deservedly gave us our second victory in 3 games.
Everybody really played out of their skins & most importantly played as a team, good to se that, hope we continue the same way.
& this wasn’t some kind of recreation, it was passion, passion to play, passion to win……
CHAK DE ROMANIA!!!!!!
Romania’s third game, we required to win this to stay in the vicinity of group leaders.
But we floored when we heard we’d have to play without our best 2 players. Rupert got a dent in is leg, so his mechanic advised him to take rest & James had to attend his AGM.
Before I start my review, I would like to address a point. Somebody was commenting that we play for recreation. Let me correct that dude, we play for “Passion” more then recreation. Its passion for the game, passion for the team.
For the first time, we were all geared up well before time & first time this season we had a good 5-10 minutes of warm-up.
Line Up: -
Goalkeeper – Lynston
Defense – Salvito, Ian, Baptist, Valario
Midfield – Rohan, Jason, Milton, Raphael
Strikers – Rudy, Crispin
Subs – Ardilus & Avron
Romania FC 1
63” Raphael 0 Catholic Welfare Association
This was the best game we played, that too without 2 of our best players.
First Half: -
We started beautifully, passing & moving the ball really well. The main thing was that we were playing to our positions.
We made some good moves & our defense was rock solid, with Lynston commanding the goal.
We had couple of decent (slight difficult) chances: -
· Baptist drills a free kick into the opposition penalty area, Raphael didn’t get a proper connection & it just misses the goal narrowly.
· Crispin crossed a delightful ball over the defense, Raphael almost got to the ball, but it bounced wickedly out of reach of his head, so tried to score a hand of god like goal but was spotted by the referee, who gave a hand ball
Rohan was (according to me) the best player of the first half, he running up & down the flank & making some really good moves.
Jason stuck to his role of holding midfield pretty well, he was the shield for the defense, until later part of first half, as the entire opposition attack were coming down from the center & Jason was found wanted. The opposition were taking shots from the center but Lynston was up to it.
On the whole Jason had a very good game (especially in the second half). I believe this a very crucial position, which Romania requires & the captain did a good job & should stick to it.
The most enjoyable incidence of the first half was as follows: -
Ball bounces over Ian, opposition player reaches towards the ball first, Ian goes charging in and pushes him with both his hands. That poor skinny lad of theirs flew nearly 5 feet. All gather around, start abusing (not for the last time). I dragged Ian out of it, referee took Ian in the side & explained him without showing any card.
Both sides were playing good football & the first half ended in a draw.
Second Half: -
Milton nominated himself out for the second half, this gave our new signing to perform, so in came Avron. He was fitted along side Jason in the heart of the midfield. I was quite impressed by this youngster’s performance. His defensive & free flow passing game was very fresh. This made a great combination of youthful zest & good’ol wisdom in the heart of the midfield.
Suddenly middle of the second half Rohan nominated himself to get substituted, it was puzzling to all, why did he go, specially when he was playing so well.
The Goal: -
It was a really good move, started from defense to attack. We won the ball in the defense, I released it for Avron on the left flank ahead me, who combined very with Crispin, both played some good 1-2’s, then they pushed the ball to Ardilus, he pushed it a bit ahead to Rudy (all this on the left flank), Rudy then centered the ball towards awaiting Raphael, who had to just pushed it in the nets……….goal…………….
Defensive Strategy: -
Now that we were in the lead, we had to defend our souls for it. We were all defense then we knew, we can take this out, Raphael as well fell back to help out the defense. There was lot of shouting going on between baps, valli & Jason. Things were getting heated, as the opposition were getting frustrated, we didn’t give them any chance to play fluently. There were some arguments between some opposition players & baps, argument translated into abusing, valli jumped in as well, this was all good for us, as we were running the clock down.
We held on & deservedly gave us our second victory in 3 games.
Everybody really played out of their skins & most importantly played as a team, good to se that, hope we continue the same way.
& this wasn’t some kind of recreation, it was passion, passion to play, passion to win……
CHAK DE ROMANIA!!!!!!
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