Penang Sports Club 5 vs 3 KDU College
This game was memorable for driving rain, Muneer's appearance and subsequent goals (two of them!) and my collision with the goalkeeper's studs. That hurt a lot.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
KDU College vs IPG College
KDU College vs IPG College
It also occurred to me that I will have to allow a first choice team to play a whole match together to enable to get to know each other. The start of two friendlies a week? I better get the football society money sorted out ASAP!
This was a game I was fairly confident of winning. We had played many matches and done some training together so we were knowledgeable about each other's games and our own limits. And IPG hadn't. The first half was totally ours too - we controlled the game by passing the ball fairly neatly, creating chances whilst restricting IPG to very few chances. I slipped on a few occasions (short studs on a muddy pitch!) but our keeper Duc did well to block two one on ones - and it was a good test for him too. Sadly we didn't convert any of our chances, Goo hit a rocket of a shot onto the crossbar, so we came into the break goalless.
Treating the match like a full international, I changed the full first XI by the 55 minute mark. Sadly this meant that we seemed to lose a bit of momentum and we failed to dominate as well as we did in the first half. We lost 2 goals through careless defensive lapses of not marking properly at a free kick and corner and this cost us dearly. However I liked the way our Christopher linked up with his friends - I feel that he is an excellent player and just needs to commit himself to training and getting to know the rest of the team. Whether he is prepared to do this, is a whole different matter...
Treating the match like a full international, I changed the full first XI by the 55 minute mark. Sadly this meant that we seemed to lose a bit of momentum and we failed to dominate as well as we did in the first half. We lost 2 goals through careless defensive lapses of not marking properly at a free kick and corner and this cost us dearly. However I liked the way our Christopher linked up with his friends - I feel that he is an excellent player and just needs to commit himself to training and getting to know the rest of the team. Whether he is prepared to do this, is a whole different matter...
It also occurred to me that I will have to allow a first choice team to play a whole match together to enable to get to know each other. The start of two friendlies a week? I better get the football society money sorted out ASAP!
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Terrible Goals
JAPAN 2 vs 1 KDU
It didn't look good as we only had 9 KDU players at the start of the game but we searched for a goalkeeper and a random player. It was an amazing start as we got a very early penalty with our first shot on goal. Goo put it away but terrible defending (our random player let the ball go under his foot = one on one chance for their striker) meant we leaked in 2 goals.
It didn't look good as we only had 9 KDU players at the start of the game but we searched for a goalkeeper and a random player. It was an amazing start as we got a very early penalty with our first shot on goal. Goo put it away but terrible defending (our random player let the ball go under his foot = one on one chance for their striker) meant we leaked in 2 goals.
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