Noah Seen Building an Ark

What a day! It was a very poor day for football and almost called off by the referee. I believe we were the only game that was played! We had no subs and were playing the other Chelsea team. They were primed for this contest as if it were a grand final. We were flat and lacked that intensity that we have come to expect.
Chelsea Red played well and had some fast runners outside that were creating issues. Our mids were all at sea, our defense playing out of position and sometimes I think they were not focused. The Reds had some good chances but it was Daniel B that finally put a good ball across to Liam who scored out first. We had so much room for improvement. We had one winner - Francesca who was doing a great job!
The second half we expected a whole lot more but we were giving the ball away too much in the midfield. This was probably our biggest downfall. We want to hold on and turn into trouble repeatedly and then dont have the physical strength to keep the ball. We obviously miss Liam and Alec and struggle without them.
Our defense needs more work on structure and they need to improve passing out of the back third. The Reds scored a goal as we lost possession in the centre and one player burst between our two centrebacks - who MUST LEARN TO COMMUNICATE - and he kicked it past the keeper and it trickled into goal.
To our credit, the goal seemed to act like a slap in the face and we dug deeper and worked harder. We scored again from a great pass by Liam H through a gap which Daniel B ran to collect and shoot past the keeper.
Our third goal was very lucky as Daniel shot and it slipped through the gloves of Max.
In the end it was a good tight tussle but we had too many players down - who make poor decisions. We need to be truthful and work hard during the holidays to be better.
It would be great to put the two teams together and train together as a squad. It might be something we look at in the following weeks. Hopefully the Reds play like they did today against all the other teams and help us along the way.