Today's football results (new season)
Apr. 3rd, 2011 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vostoklakeTuakau 2 - Mt Albert-Ponsonby 3
I'm glad to announce that all of MAP's senior teams won on the first weekend of the competition - apparently our first team went through Cambridge for a short-cut, and our 3rd team won away to Pukekohe's 1st team (sorry Jag). But me, I had to bundle into a car for a huge trip out into the vast, untapped potato fields to the south. It's not even Auckland any more out there.
Tuakau were a very strong feisty team, but whose game plan was kind of one-dimensional - long balls down the centre into the box, "route 1 football". Luckily this meant that I really didn't have much to do, because our backs were usually fast enough to cover. I think I had to make one actual save all game, but quite a few times I had to run out of my box to clear. At my level you don't get many keepers who come off their line, let alone leave the penalty area, so I see myself as kind of a "secret weapon" in that regard.
1-0 to us at half time, and 3-0 soon afterwards. Our passing game down the middle was great and our wings were knocking them in with precision. And then we ran out of puff, and the farmgirls managed to get two back. The first one they finally managed to beat our backs and put it past me from the edge of the area; the second one, unmarked header from a corner. I admit I was terrified for the last ten. It didn't help that apparently there is nothing better to do in Tuakau of a Sunday afternoon than watch women's football, so they had a loud and rowdy fan base doing their best to get under your narrator's skin. I must admit the final whistle was a relief.
Best thing about coming to Tuakau - the feed afterwards. South Auckland and Franklin girls always put on a good spread, as opposed to certain rich inner city suburb clubs where you'd be happy to see a bag of chips after the game. And one of the opposition spontaneously came up to me at the aftermatch to say "good game". I don't think anything's better than that.
Next game: Ellerslie at home.
I'm glad to announce that all of MAP's senior teams won on the first weekend of the competition - apparently our first team went through Cambridge for a short-cut, and our 3rd team won away to Pukekohe's 1st team (sorry Jag). But me, I had to bundle into a car for a huge trip out into the vast, untapped potato fields to the south. It's not even Auckland any more out there.
Tuakau were a very strong feisty team, but whose game plan was kind of one-dimensional - long balls down the centre into the box, "route 1 football". Luckily this meant that I really didn't have much to do, because our backs were usually fast enough to cover. I think I had to make one actual save all game, but quite a few times I had to run out of my box to clear. At my level you don't get many keepers who come off their line, let alone leave the penalty area, so I see myself as kind of a "secret weapon" in that regard.
1-0 to us at half time, and 3-0 soon afterwards. Our passing game down the middle was great and our wings were knocking them in with precision. And then we ran out of puff, and the farmgirls managed to get two back. The first one they finally managed to beat our backs and put it past me from the edge of the area; the second one, unmarked header from a corner. I admit I was terrified for the last ten. It didn't help that apparently there is nothing better to do in Tuakau of a Sunday afternoon than watch women's football, so they had a loud and rowdy fan base doing their best to get under your narrator's skin. I must admit the final whistle was a relief.
Best thing about coming to Tuakau - the feed afterwards. South Auckland and Franklin girls always put on a good spread, as opposed to certain rich inner city suburb clubs where you'd be happy to see a bag of chips after the game. And one of the opposition spontaneously came up to me at the aftermatch to say "good game". I don't think anything's better than that.
Next game: Ellerslie at home.