Weekly comments and updates about the previous weeks games and tournaments.
Saturday 22nd May 2010 – Jersey United Bulldogs 5 @ FC Maroons Torres 1
After a quick start and a goal from Bijan Eizadkhah from a cross from Vinny Marna, we had a sloppy period for about 10 minutes. That continued after the second goal from Jared Golestani. However the field and the opposition style of play didn’t allow for a lot of soccer to be played. After conceding a sloppy goal, we started to improve and a great finish from Tim DiBisceglie, after quick thinking from a free kick increased the lead to 2 goals again, we came in at half time confident but I reminded the players that we still hadn’t been at our best. We added two more goals in the second half but the main story from the second half was the missed chances, we improved our soccer in the 2nd half dramatically and created chance after chance, we really should have scored double figures, we have to improve our finishing in the final third, against better opposition we might only get two or three chances and we have to take those chances.
Sunday 23rd May 2010 – Jersey United Bulldogs 2 @ Ramapo Valley Tornadoes 2
After a slow start, we did create numerous chances within the first 10 minutes but failed to take any of them and paid the prices as the opposition took three shots on goal in the first half and scored twice, we in the mean time while not playing extremely well still created chances and hit the post, hit the GK, hit it just wide etc. yet again our inability to take the chances we created were hurting us, likewise our inability to keep a shut out also hurt us. however we started the second half much brighter and pulled a goal back within 30 seconds of the restart from a shot from Vinny Marna that slipped through the GK’s hands. We continued to pile on the pressure and got our rewards from a free kick crossed over that Spenser Heller finished at the back post. We continued to be the better side on a very small field but again missed numerous chances to take the lead. While the opposition had their moments of pressure they didn’t really test Dylan Castanheira in our goal. But yet again, the frustrating thing was the fact the opposition had three to four efforts on goal scored twice and we had well into the teens for efforts on goal and only scored twice as well. Hopefully we can start taking theses chances that come our way and improve our percentage of goals to chance ratio. We will continue to work on this in practice.
