Ragtag Rebels - Eindhoven United

5-0. Quiet and simple

From the very first second we had a clear chance and Francesco almost scored. Right after that Francesco scores the first goal after a lost ball from the keeper. Their keeper lost many but MANY balls today and some meant goals.

Gianluca didn't come and Stefan was the keeper, he wasn't very busy but still did his job very well.

I don't remember the second goal (Jelmer?)

Third goal was a cool one, Gareth get's in the pitch and the first thing he does is a pressure to the keeper, whom decided to shoot Gareth on the leg, rebounce and goal, first touch=goal: Veni, vidi, vinci (Julious Caesar).

Fourth goal starts in Fernando dribbling a striker in our area then he crosses the whole field but the defenders are more worried of his pass so he accepts the invitation to shoot and scores. Very nice long run and beautiful goal

I'm a bit confused with the goals but we reached the break 4-0.

One more in the second half (Carlos??) and 5-0.

US: Solid defense although we didn't have many difficulties today. To put a "but" I would say that it seems to be tricky when we have Jelmer and Francesco together, there are moments when none of them cover the last guy and we have some difficulties. In the second half we agreed not to follow the keeper (because he wasn't dangerous in attack) and we fixed that minor issue. Again, nothing serious today but something to keep an eye on. However in attack they did couple of very nice 1-2, actually perhaps the best play today was a great combination of them.

THEM: It is not a bad team but they have a serious problem in defense-keeper. They loose very dangerous balls. They also do slow vertical passes keeper-first defender, we recovered many balls just by being quicker there. Their best player today was the number 6, he moves around a lot and we needs to be covered.

Anecdote 1: Today we shot at least 4 times to the post: Gareth(2), Francesco and David.

Anecdote 2: In the second half Stefan receives a long and easy ball out of their defense(from their field) and he plays funny and let's the ball come in the goal. That is supposed to be ok because the rules say that's not a goal. However the referee was even funnier than Stefan and gives the goal!!!. Luckily the referee at the table corrected him and cancelled that. Lesson of the day: you wanna be funny? better do it on wednesdays.

Anecdote 3: Mikkers lost against War GP. Virtually(because we have one more game) we have an advantage of 11 points. Most likely that difference will be reduced to 8 points next week.

Next week we rest. In two weeks we face De Witte Burgh, let's forget about points and differences and try to play a serious match against them.

Linesman: Digo and Fernando

Goals: Francesco, Jelmer?, Gareth, Fernando, ??? Help me at the comments please.