Guess what!
My team won the morning soccer match finally!
Yes! For the first time in history we won, and we won by fighting back!
The scoreline is a bit ridiculous and rather high scoring game, the first half scoreline is 2-4 our team trailing, and at the final whistle, the game ended with 8-6!
I brought my brother along, and I was surprised to find out that my team had another pair of brothers! AND more coincidentally, each of the pair of brothers (me) is playing defender, the other is winger.
Our team winger did well, our left and right side could send in decent crosses, sad to say if our right wing had been taken by my friend Ah BU, there wouldn't be a cross at all.
Some details in today's match up! I started happily as a defensive midfielder, however, I soon found many tasks under my role, thus I didn't really played well in the first half.
Eventually I found out there was this guy whom is our defender centre, and he alone had given three goals to the opponent due to his fatal mistakes, and I mean really fatal- letting the ball bounce in the box, and failed to obtain the control of the ball when it was 80% favourable to him etc.
Somemore when questioned, he gave a lot of excuses of himself... (he was the guy with the nick name of "Commander", he likes to give out commands alot, and actually no one really listens to his comments.)
Then my good friend, Ah Peng, switch his role from defender to midfielder, I began to have a bad feeling about our defence. And was soon enough to be proven right when the game ended 2-4, with 3 mistakes from our "commander".
I felt the team should do something so I spoke up and gave my teammates a few instructions. Just the start of second half, we conceded a goal again, and yes, HIM AGAIN! ARGHHH!
I asked Peng to tell him NOT to play as centre back, I feel that he is really lousy. But of course, we didn't ask him to switch position, I was just passing a remark. I told Peng that I'm going to play as centreback then.
Our goalkeeper, did not give any instructions from the back which he should be doing to organise our line. So, I took initiative and call out to the defenders to keep a lookout on their respective markers. Then the commander gave a lot of reasonings, which is rubbish to me. I told him to get to his man, and that's all he was needed to do.
Things worked out in our defence keeping minimal leakage with our offside trap. I was covering the back of my leftback. And had to slide in a challenge every now and then. "I'm taking no chances!" that's what I said to myself.
Our team fought hard with some neat passing to beat their offside trap, and with our strike force, we slowly make our way to find our self an equaliser. I called out to my team to turn on their concentration and make sure we don't fail after all the efforts the whole team had put in.
We find ourselves 6-5 soon enough with a defence splitting pass, for one of our skipper to tap in the goal, it was our turning point. It went 7-5 just a while later.
Soon, they pour men forward, and I was awared of the danger, we got stranded with their one-two passing and they put one in, 7-6.
Just before the end of the match, my friend CHYUN found himself clear open again (his second time) I shouted out calling him to have a try for himself, he did, and scored, 8-6.
Then the final whistle was blown, the match ended in quite a good spirit, though there was an event which the opposition midfielder felt angry and walked out of the pitch, substituted.
We had not won since long ago, our team did not really suffer much of a goal draught but rather, a win draught situation.
I'm really delighted with today's win, it's really a fine way to start a sunday.
After the match, I got recognition from my left back. And my brother tried to tell me he still got more tricks up his sleeves... well, that's what I call a sense of satisfaction!
Bringing football to life,
Zhaoru.
