Firstly a quick report on our last game:
Sat June 17th2006 –
Blackman Oval
Conditions – Firm pich,
sunny conditions.
Crowd – Approx 20-30 incl
interchange players
Result:LCW
3 vs
Scorers:J Prideaux,
“It was the result that counted”.
After experiencing an early scare from
A ball was intercepted on the halfway line, moved upfield by Scott to I think Derek on the left,( but apologies if it was someone else) who sent a perfect
pass which split the Pymble defense to find JP unmarked.Cooly he trapped the ball and sent a low rasping
shot into the right hand corner of the net – 1-0. Still on a high after this
early goal our advantage was pressed home with a second goal using the route
one method ie.a pass straight down the middle which
found Scott, and with his pace and strength he outpaced the Pymble
defence and sent an unstoppable shot past the hapless keeper – 2-0.
And then we sort of lost our way a bit and allowed Pymble to get back into the game – albeit with few real
chances to score. This was a symptom of our last victory where for all our
domination and chances created we couldn’t find that killer touch to really
finish off the opposition.
Into the second half we lost Paul with a knee injury,
however knowing his speed at recovering from career threatening injuries I’m
sure we can look forward to him taking the field again next
Saturday.It
was also very pleasing to see Nigel back after a few weeks lay off with a knee
injury.
Late in the second half Pete after not putting a foot
wrong in the whole game inadvertently a hand wrong and the eagle eyed referee
pointed to the spot, with little argument from Pete or his team mates.
Normally we would then have been looking at a nervous
last 10 mins, however we have a keeper in Lucio
who is proud of our defensive record being the best in the division (only 8
conceded) and flung himself to his right, palming a well taken penalty into the
air. It was then that everything seemed to move in slow motion and the spinning
ball looked to everyone as though it would drop backwards into the net. Whilst
the rest of his team mates watched in stunned silence, fortunately
Lucio did not and
scrambled the ball away as the Pymble striker ran in
to convert the rebound. A great save indeed!
After this we continued to press and in the last few
minutes scored the final goal with what was probably one of our best moves of
the match – a great build up down the left with the final pass finding Steve
who after seeing his shot well saved by their keeper, then watched as the
rebound hit a defenders backside and rolled into the net – needless to say the Pymble defender was somewhat embarrassed by the own goal
and graciously offered Steve credit for the goal – which of course he gladly
accepted. So another clean sheet and 3 points puts us into third place and
everything to play for.
Please let me know of your thoughts regarding
I am presuming that there are no changes to the
players that were available for last Saturday – although it would be advantageous
to have three subs for this week’s game.
Cheers,
Dave
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