Second game, second win!

Another great game boys! I was worried about this one. Coming into this morning I knew we were missing Jake and Joey and Joel had a sore knee and Freddy was suffering from the flu. Then Jarib was late. Yikes!

But Joel played the whole game and kept us in there with great save and stopping their fast breaks by leaving his penalty box at the right time. Freddy stepped in for Joey, Jarib showed up and we played well. David put in a great goal, then Sam finished off another breakaway and we were looking good at the half. Nayef and Ned took turns at midfield and our defensive line of Jack, Sebas and Liam shut out all their offensive efforts.

Dario had some great breakaways but couldn't quite turn his crosses far enough around to the boys who were playing a perfect far post position. Roberto struggled with his right foot but, after me making fun of him, asking how he could stand with only one leg, (sorry about that, Roberto), he placed a nice right-footed shot almost inside the post.

David gave us another score in the second half and bounced another breakaway off the crossbar.

Jarib received a verbal warning  by the ref, then one from me at half-time about yelling at the opposing players but shouted again, earning him a yellow card. Not wanting to risk him missing a future game, I pulled him for the last ten minutes.

Zaeem was a constant presence on the breakaways, always a threat to score. And Brandon was like a Tasmanian Devil in the middle, always involved with the ball. Whenever I substituted him, he was full of smiles but exhausted from his efforts.

What I liked to see was that we never gave up on offense or defense, we played tough and, unlike members of the other team, never cried. What I'd like to work on next week is better marking on defense, calling for help when you find yourself double-teamed and better switching back to defense by the midfielders. Our offense was just fine.

Congratulations, boys!