Final Score: Saints JC Team 1 : 0 MFC
Venue: St Wilfred Sports Complex
A lacklustre match that ended disastrous for Maestro
A Sunday mid-day sun greeted the players of Maestro and the Saints. The sun was also the killer for Maestro fitness and the source of inspiration for the Saints. In the previous match, Saints beat Maestro 7 – 1 due to the lack of first team players. Maestro dared not hope for more in the match, but to prevent the humiliating defeat again.
Maestro welcome back Captain GuoXian, who reminded Maestro of the opposition’s skills and brilliance in the previous match. He decided to go for defensive play in the first half. Saints was an experienced school team players, and the fact that they were just released from NS, they seemed a bunch of fitness instructors VS a bunch of newly recruits.
Indeed the first half was just defending our own halves. The posts were heavily guarded by Eric, GuoXian, Walter, Alan, Howard, and Gary the keeper. The midfield was secured tightly by Gerald, Jonathan, Chris. Maestro was unable to string at least 5 passes together, simply outplayed by opposition. Substitutions were often for Maestro as they only had the chances to chase the ball down from opposition.
Both sides had very little shots due to the heavily defending by Maestro. However, before the end of the match, a pass from Little Eric to Gerald smell disaster. An interception was well done, and trickery of the player skipped past 3 defenders to finish off splendidly past Gary. This was the first goal before the half ended.
Knowing that Maestro had a lot to play for, and Maestro had not done a bad job defending, GuoXian gave Maestro the heads up during the half time talk.
In the second half, Gary made a few superb dive save from shots outside of the box. There was also a floating cross which he made a splendid punch to prevent the ball into the net. Eric had a great game as well when he cut many passes and he played slightly forward the defence line providing options for midfield to pass. Despite Gerald received given 2 yellow cards for 2 rough challenges as he left the field in frustration, he cover most parts of the field covering players.
The match ended in 1 – 0 boring lost.
Good Points
· Great work by Gary today as keeper
· Welcome back Eric and GuoXian, Maestro greatly missed players.
· Strong substitution plays from players including Logan and Aylwin
· Alex arrived directly from airport to the match? Great delication from his part.
Bad points
· Gerald cool head would have saved him from the red card.
· Passing is Maestro greatest weakness
· Strength and fitness should be strengthen from the scenes of weather
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