Hart Sharks 7 vs 2 NW Phantoms

<p>A friendly against fellow prem team led to the team conceding more<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />goals in one game than any game previously in the almost 7 years with<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />the team. We knew with missing players JR, JF and HJ that it<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />would be a challenge and that a number of players would, for some of<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />the game, be playing out of their most suited position. A good start<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />with lots of positive passing football with strikers looking bright<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />and purposeful. Hart had two excellent pacey wide players that once<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />again caused panic as soon as they had the ball. Phantoms scored first<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />and tails were certainly up. Good play from centre to wide left, led<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />to a ball into the box that was passed into the goal. Equaliser was<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />U7s football, with the fast wide man up against a flat defence with no<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />covering defenders, so he knocked the ball through, chased after it<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />and slotted it home. Hart then took the lead, a mistake handing the<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />ball directly to oppo in penalty box to slot home. I could see some of<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />the boys slump a bit, given the good play and good start they'd made.<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />To their credit they got back in it again some good combo play in<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />midfield, with attackers supporting the play and the through ball to<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />the impressive JRI to score. 2-2 half time.<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />Sluggish start second half, specifically the wide/attacking support<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />play, slipping back to some of the old poor technique. Hart looked<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />more dangerous and scored, with ball slipped between CB and fullback<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />to score. With 15-20 mins to go phantoms fell off the proverbial<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />cliff. Passive and prone to silly individual mistakes particularly<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />positionally, creating an unwarranted flood of goals. Soft goals from<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />corners and hoofs over the top darkening the clouds in the last 20<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />mins.