A bit of math

Today we have our first match ball of the season. Funny isn’t it? This was our first season in second division and most of us (me first) didn’t think we will be at this position at the end of the season. Nice to see we were wrong.

I always say that making numbers is useless until the last three games… well this is it so let’s do some math.

The situation is like this:

1. Ragtag. We are first with 38 points and 15 matches. There are only 3 matches to go=9 points.
2. Mikkers with same number of matches (15) and 11 points less (27), that means they already cannot win the league.
3. Hunter Boys with also 11 points less than us (27) but only 14 matches, if they win their next game (I assume so because it is an easy one against the last) the difference will be 8 points.
4. Waar GP with 25 and 15 matches (no chances to win the league).

Bottom line: Eight points difference, 3 games to go and only one opponent. We just need one point, since our goal difference is pretty sexy (+39).

The next (and last) three matches are:

1. Carpe Diem (tonight). Together with us, they are the best team in the second leg. They have won around 10 games in a row, beated War GP and last week Mikkers 6-4. They were loosing 4-2 at the break and scored 4 goals in a row. On top of that they played some time with 4 players after a green card. They are currently in very good shape.
2. Mikkers, currently the second team in the league. So far the only team that beated us this season. Scored 4 goals actually.
3. Waar GP. We had a very rough and dirty game in the first leg. There are complains about their behavior from some teams. I would not feel confortable playing for the league against them.

These are the maths. Nice position needing only one point, suuuure but we often make the easy a challenge and the three next games are the most difficult ones. Let’s focus in tonight’s game and in what we individually have to do on the pitch.

Good luck.