Maestro FC 6 (Norris, Ahbi, Hakim, OG, Joel, Kartik) - 1 August friends team
Match Review by Kartik
After a 5-1 lose to stallionz
FC last week maestro was all out to prove themselves.Today’s friendly was up
against one of August friend’s team, whom we had no past experience with, so we
were completely in the dark as to their style of play and which key players
would cause maestro problems, all we knew were that they were a relatively new
team. The weather was behaving erratically with sudden heavy downpours but
thankfully there was no lightning or thunder, and hence the game could go on.
Maestro had a good squad of 15 men
to begin the match. We adopted with a 4-4-2 formation to see if we could get an
early goal. Calvin was in goal, while
Norris, walter, howard anderic played defence. In the
midfield we had kartik on the left,joel on the right, and yang
de and Gerald in the middle. Upfront was our
captain Guo Xian and Augustine. We started the game decently
with joel making sparkling runs down the right taking atleast 2-3
defenders on each time but no goal came of his hard work. Despite us having
more possession the first goal sadly was not ours but the opponents. A good
through ball was fed to their striker and he calmly finished it off
past calvin. We were down a goal but we weren’t daunted by the mountain
that we had to climb. Fresh players were brought on
as kartik reverted back to left back, and abhitaking up his role
in left mid. Our talisman hakim was also on as an attacking midfielder,
with Guo xian swapping roles with Norris who was now playing
upfront as we changed our formation to 4-5-1. Our first goal was good overall
play by the team. A nice through ball was fed to abhi as he ran down
the flank and fed the ball to the far post, and Norris who made an excellent
run into the box capped off a good maestro move to draw level. Shortly Maestro
earned a corner, which Gerald took. He crossed a dangerous ball into the box,
but no one could finish it off, after a scrappy clearance the ball landed
on abhi’s left leg, and he just tried his luck by taking a shot.
Stupefaction washed over his face as he saw the ball hit the back of the net,
2-1 to Maestro. Soon the first half was brought to an end.
The second half begun with
the Maestro continuing with the 4-5-1 approach. Early in the second
half Maestro were awarded with a free kick near the penalty
box. Abhi who took the free kick, crossed the ball into a dangerous
area in the box, it struck one of the opponents heads and crept into the top
corner of the net. 3-1 to Maestro. Maestro FC pressed on to increase the
score line. The fourth goal was assisted by Abhi providing hakim with the
chance to finish of the keeper. The fifth goal came in from a corner, our cap
GX was also thirsty for a goal. After shaking off the opponents, GX managed to
volley the ball but too bad it was cleared by the defender but joel was there
at the right time right moment to blast the ball into the net. I think it
will take some time for the keeper to come out of shock from a goal like that!
Well that examples the final goal of the match. Howard makes a pass to Joel,
Joel dribbles pass three players and a beautiful
pass to kartik, kartik found himself through on goal and shoots! The keeper
could not keep out his lobbing ball, defenders even tried using they hands
to stop the ball from going into the net .Like what the malay team always
say (Hard luck) the ball went straight into the net. Maestro had a fantastic
game today, keep up the good work guys!
Good points
-Fantastic performance by maestro
throughout the game.
-Splendid performance by Abhi and
hakim.
-Friendly opponents and clear fair
play.
-Very promising attacking moves
from maestro
-Thanks to August for organising
the game
Bad points
-Poor weather conditions for 20mins
of the first half
-Need to improve on first touches,
first ball, making quick decisions, physically stronger (MATCH FITNESS)
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