Goodfellas 0 V 1 Boc
⚽ Result
Goodfellas 0
BOC 1
🏆 Competition
Home league match
📅 When
Saturday, 25 September 2010
📍 Venue
Home
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<p>Goodfellas 0 - 1 BOC (half time 0-0)<br />Saturday September 25<br />Happy Valley #6<br /><br />The leader of the legal league was looking forward to facing BOC and consolidate its top seed position<br /><br />Ced, yours truly, who had some good memories from last year's game against BOC was given the task to fuel the team spirit<br /><br />Here is a quick summary of the Cantona-like speech from the French man <br />"Every season is a new beginning with people leaving the team, other joining and even leavers who are coming back<br />Every game is also a new beginning and it starts at nil-nil<br />No matter what you did the week before and how many goals you have scored you have to do it all over again"<br /><br />And here is the reference to MU best #7 aka Cinema not so good actor aka GOD aka Eric Cantona<br />http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6drzs_eric-cantona-when-the-seagulls-foll_sport<br /><br />Line-up:<br /> Andy<br />Shiuy Bear Flo Ikes<br />Doug Justin Dave Howard<br /> Chris Ced<br /><br />Subs: Shaka, Kettz, Mark, Leo<br /><br />Toss<br />When the referee called for the toss BOC players were still getting dressed and they were only 9 of them reporting for duty<br />The BOC captain won the toss and requested to switch side to earn an extra minute to let his last men put their short and jersey on<br />And so the game started in this awkward situation with 11 vs 9<br /><br />Early minutes<br />In these early minutes the fellas established a new record of ball possession in football history<br />The ball was moving nicely but we failed to create much out of it and the couple of runs we have only managed to finish the warm up <br />Note for later: we should have turned the numeric advantage into goals, by pressuring them a bit more<br /><br />Woodwork don't work - part 1<br />Ced received the ball on the right side turned around and passed to Doug who immediately found Chris in the box<br />Nice control from Chris, which put himself in a perfect position to open the scoreline. Beautiful shot, the keeper was beaten but the post denied the goal.<br />BOC's late joiners must have got the message as they arrive to bring their side to 10 and then 11 players<br /><br />Woodwork don't work - part 2<br />Even with a full team, BOC players not knowing what to do with the ball prefered to hand it over to Goodfellas<br />And the fellas continued their game with lots of passing back and forth between the lines and the forwards making run on due time<br />Free kick taken by Doug near the center of the pitch on BOC side<br />The ball went up in the air above the defense and Cedric made is run, the goalie was coming towards him for a clearance<br />The French man was first on the ball but only managed to head it on the crossbar<br /><br />By that time BOC even had a substitute and they were making frequent change to maintain their fragile 0-0<br /><br />The first half resumed, the pitch was a oneway street but BOC defense was strong even if it was relying heavily on his tall center defender<br />We have had so many opportunities in this half that I cannot remember all of them<br />I did have several shots on target myself from midrange but they were not powerful enough or too close to the keeper to beat him<br />I do remember a free header from Howard, who failed to find the open goal<br /><br />Half-time<br />- Half-time score: Amazingly enough the scoreline was still nil-nil<br />- Half-time team talk: keep working hard, put a little bit more of pressure on them and it will come<br />- Half-time break: hear that noise, hate that noise => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO9Vv11Qq28&feature=related<br /><br />The second half was Sebastian Kettner big return from injury to the competition<br />Coach Justin had to go for a training session and Mark replaced him on the spot<br />Shaka came in as right midfield and Leo on the left<br />I kind of forgot who took a break<br /><br />The one way traffic sign was changed after we switched sides (which means it was still pointing towards BOC goal)<br />In this second half, the Goodfellas had once more many opportunities to kill the game and claim the victory but for some reason they failed to do so<br />With the minutes passing by the Fellas started to feel more and more nervous while BOC started to think they may well get a draw after all<br />They did better than that<br /><br />Something was not sounding right in this game, there was some noise on the line and for some reasons our call for goals could not go through<br />And what was meant to happened when you outrageously dominate the game .... just happened<br /><br />Someone got cramped (I won't give names because Dave is a good friend) <br />Ced had some important words to say to a BOC player who had confiscated the ball and was chasing him in our own half<br />The guy ignored Ced's SMS (slow motion slide) and continued his solo conversation with the ball <br />This time Flo was personally coming up to greet him for a quick chat<br />Ikes apparently wanted to talk to the guy as well and challenged him for a face to face conversation<br />There were some miscommunication on our side and Ikes' tackle took everyone off balance<br />Every one but the BOC attacker who was still on the line, he gave Andy a quick call<br />The ball took a nice curve in the direction of the top right corner of our goal<br />Andy could not pick it up, the attacker didn't leave a message, he hanged up, thank you very much.<br /><br />All the sudden the situation had changed<br />Dave who is not ashamed of his body had to leave the pitch for a full body massage<br />With 1 goal down the Fellas became even more nervous even with a good 20 minutes remaining on the clock<br />They were rushing their game a little too much especially in the final yards ... <br />... taking the impossible shots from a tight angle, instead of passing, ...<br />... dribbling 2 defenders, instead of passing<br />Everybody had good intention and was trying to save the day but each of us failed on his own (myself included)<br /><br />We have had plenty of chances, to name a few I can recall:<br />A powerful free kick which was going in the top right corner, but which the keeper managed to deflect (I think it was from Leo)<br />A run from Shaka whose shot was blocked by the last defender<br />A similar run from Chris but again blocked at the last second by the defense<br />I think everyone participating to the offensive plays had his chance in front of the goal<br />Again several shots from your humble striker, all on targets, but way too weak or too close to the keeper to claim a goal<br /><br />The last opportunity was this last corner from Howard which fall in the 6 yard box that everyone saw passing by but no-one could put in<br />That is a good summary of the game on its own, we had the chances, we were just missing this little thing that makes the difference<br /><br />Hopefully sometimes it the other way around like Saint Etienne (Flo and I team) in the derby against Lyon this weekend<br />Lyon dominated the game hit the cross bar or post 2 or 3 times but failed to score<br />Saint Etienne managed to score on their only shot on target, a free kick from Payet<br />Saint Etienne is still top of the ligue 1 and Lyon dropped from 17th to 19th, Incredible!<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGVBXnH4k5c<br /><br />Conclusion:<br /><br />There is a French say that goes like : "on leur a tendu le baton pour se faire battre" (literally it translates into "we gave them the sick to get ourselves beaten")<br />The equivalent english expression would be "we gave them ammunition", if you are not a poet just say "we got screwed by a stick in our ass")<br />BOC did not win this game, we lost it ; with so many chances we should have killed the game early<br /><br />We need this little extra thing that makes the difference when small details matter<br />We need this little extra confidence that makes us come back from difficult situations<br />We need this little extra strength that makes us fight until the end<br />So my recommendation is:<br />Stop wanking before the game and replace that by a good night of sleep<br />Please pass on my recommendation to whoever is assisting you in that task<br /><br />Okay more seriously I don't know what to say. We had our chances ; they got lucky<br />I found the stats of our game on fifa.com, have a look. Shit happen. "C'est la vie"<br />http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/statistics/matches/round=249722/match=300111112/index.html<br /><br />We probably need to train on set pieces to unlock a difficult situation with corners and free kicks<br />Personally I need to train on mid range shot and put a little more conviction in those strikes (I suck)<br /><br />I leave you with with Eric's favorite moment ; may more to think about for the next game<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_uzU85htH4&feature=related<br /><br />Heads up<br /><br />Allez les Goodfellas!<br />
