Langwarrin Cop the Blues!

The Chelsea blues made the journey down to the peninsula to play Langwarrin, who were celebrating their 50th anniversary this weekend.
It was damp, but the rain had stopped, there was no wind and we were lucky to play on a very good surface - the Langwarrin first pitch!
Langwarrin had lost some players lately and were struggling. They has a couple of u10s and U11s to make up the numbers but our focus was to do the best we could as Liam R was leaving for 5 weeks to travel overseas. But today would be the first day we would have the two midfielders together - Luis and Liam - even if it was for one day!!!!!
The Blues started off brilliantly controlling the game making attack after attack. The first half was almost played in our attacking third except for about 5 or 6 times. The 25 minute halves seem to fly by and it feels as if you have not even played! We managed to score 4 goals in the half but I was not too happy as we were resorting to selfish play and abandoning the team structure. We were trying to go straight through defenders instead of passing so I asked for more systematic efforts from the players.
the second half commenced and we attacked again. We played much better and Langwarrin - to their credit - never quit. But we worked the outside of the pitch far best and put another 8 on the board to get a 12-0 win. It was a much better team effort and we actually scored some great goals. But we cant get carried away as the opposition was missing plenty of players! It was great to get Luis back and as the game progressed his performance got stronger and stronger. Liam R was excellent in the second half and I thought Luke STRICK was awesome all day and read the ball well. Overall, everyone played very well.


Goalkickers were Liam R (3) Liam H (2) Daniel B (2) Robbie N (2) Alec D (1) Daniel A (2)


We wish Rollie all the best and we will miss him and his family. Hopefully we can keep intact while he is away. Next week we play a tough Berwick team so we need to focus on certain aspects of our game and look to improve quickly!