With today's win we finished this season with a strong record of 5 wins, 1 tie, 1 loss. Most excellent improvement compared to our first season where we finished second from the bottom. This puts us in 2nd place going into the 3-game tournament! The kids did well in a 4-1 win today--but we lacked a "killer instinct" (maybe a Silent Saturday byproduct?) and were a bit unlucky with a couple shots hitting the crossbar or just going wide. We played a strong passing game against a much weaker team and probably had possession for over 70% of the time. We punished them on an early mistake of a goal kick up the middle that Isaac intercepted and put in. A bit later Jackson Weaver picked up a pass at the top of the box and put a low hard shot past the keeper and through a hole in the net--since it was Silent Saturday and the ball was behind the net I think a number of our fans didn't realize we scored as the kids marched back to our half after this goal! Good job Jackson for his second goal of the season!! We went into half with a modest 2 points and came out strong in the second half, with more fantastic ball movement. Trent almost had his first goal on a break away into the six yard box with a sliding kick into traffic that just went over. We had a succession of several strong shots, most not directly testing their keeper; however, Dylan put a good ball on frame and the keeper blocked it wide where Kyler had charged the far post and slammed it in for his first career GOOOAAAAALLLL!!! We'll have to move him up from defense more often, but he has to first teach the rest of our kids how to stay put on defense, because shortly after this goal Idaho got in a running match toward our goal and put a shot toward goal that Jackson W blocked wide but the same striker followed and finished. Calling the right fullback, where were you? Tate answered shortly after with a solid strike from the right side to finish the game out.
We did well this season to score 25 goals and only give up 10 goals. I expected 4 or 5 more goals today and it was a good opportunity to practice some outside shots since Idaho played a recreation defense of leaving two defenders back deep in their half. So please have your players work on good strong kicks before our first tournament game this Thursday! Give your player some rolling balls that they can time and smash back, as well as have them dribble and kick. We tend to put in the fewest goals of all the teams in our league. Now that we have our passing game down, we need to work on finishing when inside the 18. The video below demonstrates how to properly kick the ball with power--the kids need to watch this and show me their technique on practice Tuesday (we'll also do "Fun Monday" at 8am).
Finally--30 push ups for all the kids for two bad throw ins and an intentional hand ball?! Also help your kids by having them run for a full 25 minutes sometime before our practice on Tuesday. We showed much more stamina than our opponents today and we need to keep this up. Good job! Remember, we'll be playing the next 3 games with only 9 players. First game Thursday.
Cheers!
Coach Dave
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