Finally some goals resulting from Robyn's corners! It's taken us a while but the past two or three games we've been getting closer and closer and today we finally cracked it! First, Erin got us on the board chesting the ball across the goal line and then shortly after Gorge equalized Lydia was first to react to a knock-down drilling a bullet of a shot into the net.
The post-game reports I received suggest we had a couple of chances to add to the scoreline, but both Justine and Camille shot just wide.
Overall I was very pleased with our effort. We just need to pay more attention to small details like your body-positioning when receiving the ball, better first touches and attacking bouncing balls.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Chaos 2 Peninsula 1
Well it was nice to finally get a win against Peninsula. We had to come back from a goal-down to do so, but the goal seemed to wake us up and what followed was some intense pressure on the Peninsula goal. Sometimes it happens that conceding a goal actually helps you focus and I thought today was a good example of that.
The first goal came from good wing-play from Kathleen combined with good positioning on the far post by Robyn. Doug and I have been emphasizing the opposite forward sealing-off the back post on crosses and corners and today we got our reward. The second-goal followed quite quickly and took the same route, however this time Kathleen's cross bounced off a PSA defender into their goal. Late on Camille had to do well to stop a shot labeled for the top corner but in the end we held on fairly comfortably.
Hopefully that will be the end of our 8:45am start times!
Gorge is up next and I will have details on where and when at Wednesday training.
The first goal came from good wing-play from Kathleen combined with good positioning on the far post by Robyn. Doug and I have been emphasizing the opposite forward sealing-off the back post on crosses and corners and today we got our reward. The second-goal followed quite quickly and took the same route, however this time Kathleen's cross bounced off a PSA defender into their goal. Late on Camille had to do well to stop a shot labeled for the top corner but in the end we held on fairly comfortably.
Hopefully that will be the end of our 8:45am start times!
Gorge is up next and I will have details on where and when at Wednesday training.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Chaos 0 Bays 2
A couple of thoughts about today's game.
Firstly, that's a very strong team we played today yet I thought we were the best team for much of the first half. We certainly out-chanced them and limited them to very few chances. It was unfortunate to give up a goal how and when we did, but it was still a good opening 30 minutes. As has happened a number of times this year we created opportunities from good ball movement but our final shot didn't do enough to trouble their goalie.
Second, I thought their goalie and their #9 were very good. We gave their #9 too much space at times and while she didn't score, she helped create several good scoring chances with her vision and skill. Their goalie dominated her eighteen like no other goalie I've seen this year and she made two excellent clearing kicks to help her defenders. Playing goalie is about making quick decisions and I don't think she made a single error today.
Fitness. We need to be sharper mentally and fitter physically if we want to compete for 60 minutes. At important times in the game today I thought we lacked that burst of energy necessary to get to the ball or close down our opponent. So we will pick up our fitness regiment again on Monday in hope we can get going and keep going faster and for longer.
Finally, a thanks to Desi and Mckenna for filling in today for some of our missing players. Both Desi and Mckenna didn't look out of place and made several good contributions.
Firstly, that's a very strong team we played today yet I thought we were the best team for much of the first half. We certainly out-chanced them and limited them to very few chances. It was unfortunate to give up a goal how and when we did, but it was still a good opening 30 minutes. As has happened a number of times this year we created opportunities from good ball movement but our final shot didn't do enough to trouble their goalie.
Second, I thought their goalie and their #9 were very good. We gave their #9 too much space at times and while she didn't score, she helped create several good scoring chances with her vision and skill. Their goalie dominated her eighteen like no other goalie I've seen this year and she made two excellent clearing kicks to help her defenders. Playing goalie is about making quick decisions and I don't think she made a single error today.
Fitness. We need to be sharper mentally and fitter physically if we want to compete for 60 minutes. At important times in the game today I thought we lacked that burst of energy necessary to get to the ball or close down our opponent. So we will pick up our fitness regiment again on Monday in hope we can get going and keep going faster and for longer.
Finally, a thanks to Desi and Mckenna for filling in today for some of our missing players. Both Desi and Mckenna didn't look out of place and made several good contributions.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Bays Game - Early Kickoff
Kickoff on Saturday is 8:45am. Please try and be there for 8:15am.
We are playing on the middle field on the turf (1B).
We are playing on the middle field on the turf (1B).
Thursday, February 4, 2010
No Game Saturday
Confirmation that we do not have a game this Saturday :-(
Practice as usual next Monday, 5:30 @ Lochside Grass.
Have a great weekend!
Practice as usual next Monday, 5:30 @ Lochside Grass.
Have a great weekend!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Girls 3 Boys 1
Now it's the ROMS girls time to give the boys some grief at school!
We certainly had our "A" game tonight and were well worth our win. We showed some good composure on the ball, made some nice passes, kept our shape pretty well and scored three strong goals. Not entirely sure who got the final touch on our first goal, Genevieve or Justine, but it certainly ranks as the fastest goal for the Chaos this season. The game had barely begun when Gen intercepted a clearing pass and her shot seemed to take a deflection off Justine's knee before fooling their keeper. We had a couple of other half-chances to score in the first 30 minutes with some good wing play from Lucy, but the boys escaped the half down only one goal.
Second-half was much the same. Camille put her name on the scoresheet with a fine individual effort after receiving a long pass from Kathleen. The boys then pegged us back a goal after a break down our right-side, but Kathleen restored our two goal cushion blasting home a rebound into an empty net after Robyn's cross was only parried by their keeper. In between Justine and then Erin had to make one great goal-line shot-block keeping out a sure goal after a scramble. Claudia, Lydia and Naomi all had scoring chances in the last thirty minutes but couldn't squeeze one home.
More than the win, what I really liked was how well we defended and when we had possession how we did the simple things to keep possession and move forward with the ball. And when we didn't have the ball we got goal side, checked-hard and limited the shots on Camille and Justine to long range efforts. I also think our midfielders - Erin and Kathleen - were very competitive and won more of the tackles than did the boys they faced. So overall another strong effort.
We certainly had our "A" game tonight and were well worth our win. We showed some good composure on the ball, made some nice passes, kept our shape pretty well and scored three strong goals. Not entirely sure who got the final touch on our first goal, Genevieve or Justine, but it certainly ranks as the fastest goal for the Chaos this season. The game had barely begun when Gen intercepted a clearing pass and her shot seemed to take a deflection off Justine's knee before fooling their keeper. We had a couple of other half-chances to score in the first 30 minutes with some good wing play from Lucy, but the boys escaped the half down only one goal.
Second-half was much the same. Camille put her name on the scoresheet with a fine individual effort after receiving a long pass from Kathleen. The boys then pegged us back a goal after a break down our right-side, but Kathleen restored our two goal cushion blasting home a rebound into an empty net after Robyn's cross was only parried by their keeper. In between Justine and then Erin had to make one great goal-line shot-block keeping out a sure goal after a scramble. Claudia, Lydia and Naomi all had scoring chances in the last thirty minutes but couldn't squeeze one home.
More than the win, what I really liked was how well we defended and when we had possession how we did the simple things to keep possession and move forward with the ball. And when we didn't have the ball we got goal side, checked-hard and limited the shots on Camille and Justine to long range efforts. I also think our midfielders - Erin and Kathleen - were very competitive and won more of the tackles than did the boys they faced. So overall another strong effort.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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