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Friday, February 4, 2011

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.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Ragtag Rebels - Eindhoven United

Very nice game. We started loosing and also they shot once on the post but then we score 3 goals in 5 min and 2 more afterwards so we reached the break with a 5-1. Didn't loose focus in the second half and we finished 9-3 for us.


US: We play nicely and we pressed quite on their field, we often didn't follow our guy (attackers) but thankfully they rarely took advantage of that. Despite of the score it was good but just not great. We lost the ball quite quickly however we did it most of the times on their field. Even when wining for 4 goals we were in hurry!.


THEM: They are way better than what the score suggests. Number 10 (guy with glasses) is the most technical guy, he always dribbles. Number 3 is by far the worst if we dont mention the keeper. The keeper just sucks, if we shoot on goal, it is goal. They move a lot and they really do nice combinations with deep passes. It can be quite difficult to play against them. The weak point is that when we put a little preasure (like today) they give the ball very easily. Almost all the goals came from stealing the ball on their field.

We should never be too confident against this team, they are not that bad at all, they just have a problem taking the ball out and they play with no keeper.

Doodle. Eindhoven United - Ragtag Rebels

Date: Thursday, October 21st
Game: Eindhoven United - Ragtag Rebels
Time: 22.15, please be there 21.45
Location: Heiberg, Veldhoven