I got there early with MHiggi and Lewis to check the place out and was able to have kick around on the pitch for 10 minutes or so.I will suffer for that in the next day or so. Tricky playing surface too and at around 3 oclock it was looking worrying as only about 6 were there. A quick phone call from SOF found that the rest were at the wrong Platt Lane pitch!
13 players in all and rather than play 5 a side with roll on and offs they went for 7 v 6.The sides were.
Dazby International Team The Rest
Dazby Wonderwall
Sister Of Fu Svensational
Lahad MHiggi
Fidel Castro BlueBoyLewis
Piccsnumberoneblue MarkMakevelli
Bingo Lewis LeeKinda
Uves skyblue duvet
First thing to say about the game is that there were some special performances out there and at the end some very tired legs,well coplete bodies really.The most outstanding player on the day was Dazby himself but I would say that was mostly his vivid pink T shirt more than anything else. He did display some Franz Beckenbaur ( spelling?) touches in his deep lying role but there were not many of the great man's surges.
For a while the key players on both sides were the keepers. SOF in one net as you would expect displayed great positional sense and was very hard to beat but also Wonderwall at the other end just wouldnt be beaten. Eventually the spell was broken when MHiggi scored at the end of an excellent surging run and then the goals started to flow.
Not easy to comment on everybody's performance today but I would single out Piccsnumberoneblue for an all round top game and if he doesn't mind me saying especially as he wasn't the youngest out there. MHiggi probably lead the way in his team with some very good goals.MarkMakevalli and Uve's SkyBlue Duvet worked tirelessly in midfield making it all happen and both may now be in hospital getting the attention they need.
Wonderwall when he came out of goal gave a masterly display showing how to make the ball do the work and BlueBoyLewis could learn something form watching. BBL himself almost scored the goal of the game with a great run from the left side and a finish past the enormous presence of Dazby but the accolade of goal of the game went to Svensational who took a great chipped cross from Mark and volleyed into the far corner.Unstoppable.
Two others with great energy were bingo Lewis and Fidel. I think Bingo models himself on our very own Nigel De Jong with the exception that a few too many of his tackles missed the target. Great closing down though and definitely more going forward including goals.Fidel , like Mark and Uve's never stopped working and linking defence and attack .Really annoying when you want time and sapce and he never gave any.
Lee Kinda was another from the school of let the ball do the work mostly playing a sweeper style game but of the kind that holds position in the center of defence. No charging around and throwing in last ditch tackles but he just got a foot in where needed and conserved energy wherever possible. You just cannot teach that and then when he went in goal was another with excellent positional sense.The man who had the toughest day of all was Lahad. Clearly a striker of international repute but today just wasn't his day. Hitting the woodwark and often the keeper or some desperate flailing body he just couldnt score. Except that is for a stange one right at the start. He was in goal at the time and tried to pass out to a team mate who had gome to a corner flag position but unluckily the ball went into the corner of his own net.It must have taken a bobble!
Also watching Lahad trying to take out BBL was very funny and almost John Cleese like as, after failing in concsecutive attempts, he crumpled to his knees with his head in his hands swearing wildly. Where Lahad couldn't manage to score SOF showed how it should be done with plenty.I think a couple of cheeky cruel ones through the keepers legs included in that but she clearly loves to score goals and has a really good shot which helps.
I think the score was ...... who the hell cares.
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