HESKEY’S HEROES DEF. REAL GUMBIES FC 11-2
Scorer: Naveen Nadesan 2
What can I say? We were totally outclassed by a bigger, faster, more skilful group of players. We were dominated from the opening few minutes and were never able to salvage the situation.
Without making excuses, the Heskey’s forwards (especially the red-headed mini-fro guy) were individually brilliant, and unlike some of the players from other rival teams, they didn’t showboat with useless tricks. Instead, they passed quickly and accurately, took shots at every opportunity and did well in one-on-one contests (like Nav). Their goalie also used a frustrating tactic of launching the ball back almost the entire length of the ground to the hulking forwards, who would head, volley or gather it easily to the team’s advantage.
Opportunities for us were few and far between but when we did find ourselves with a chance we couldn’t capitalise. The major area we have to improve on is more talk and communication. If you’re running up in space, call for the ball. Yell “man on!” to help out your teammates. And if you’re goalie, you must direct the defence – read the play upfield and give plenty of notice before it’s too late. There were too many negative comments and poor displays of body language after we missed opportunities or stuffed up. All this does is boost the spirits of the opposition.
The positives were that I noticed were that every player made the odd team-lifting tackle/effort/pass. The problem is we’re not doing it on a consistent basis.
