Seems to have been a little while since our last match and no training
last week.
I'd clearly got into way too much detail, as confusion reigned in the
first half. We were a little light in the first half, seemingly half
asleep, second to the ball and standing off. This created space for
which hart scored, counter attacking and striking from far out,
without any player closing down. Phantoms had plenty of possession but
didn't look particularly dangerous on the attack. Halftime 1-0 down.
Phantoms were playing a team that played long until the final third,
but had a terrific striker who was causing real
problems. At the start of the second half we conceded the ball too
easily up front and often their strikers were running directly and
dangerously at our back three. Given that a lot of players were
playing in different positions we did look a bit of a mess. Second
goal conceded to make it 2-0. With 15-20 mins to go the boys woke up
and started to play. They played with the same tempo and pressing that
has been the plus point of our season. 1 goal back after some great
wide play for HJ that led to a deflection into the goal by the
unfortunate defender. We started to really look dangerous,
intercepting the long balls out of defence and moving the ball
quickly, but just ran out of time.
