Cpher: Football was not good; lost 32-12 to Holt. Did not play well and was left in some very bad spots by his coaches. Let’s talk about both of those things!
Cpher consistently did not hold on to his blocks….we’ve talked over and over about this and sometimes it is better but today it was definitely worse. I can completely understand how the coaches can be very frustrated by this.
You’ll note in the picture above that it doesn’t matter what Cpher is doing, the Holt DT blasted our guard and is tackling the back 3 yards in the backfield.
His stance, while better, is still maybe not optimal. That heel should be on the ground. And I know Christopher’s speed in getting out of his stance was a big issue this week. In that first picture above you can see #7. He was Holt’s QB; he is big and he is fast and nimble. And Holt lined him up at DE. Not opposite Cpher. 2 or 3 yards outside of Cpher.
And it went really well for Holt. Cpher could not get out of his stance quickly enough to get out to block him all the time. If he could get there, he was able to block him. But he couldn’t get there often, and would get yelled at for it. I think that’s wrong…that’s on the coaches. Holt created a mismatch, and if, no matter how hard Cpher tries, we can’t cover it, than bring a TE over or have a RB stay in to help. We didn’t, and Cpher got abused a lot, more and more as the game wore on. Only one time did we do something designed to stop that bull rush…we threw a screen pass to that side. Scored one of our two touchdowns!
Matthew: Brimming with confidence after a hopefully season-defining win in our first game we play again at home against what everybody things will be the worst team we play this year.
And despite outshooting them about 50 to 2 we walk away with a 2-2 tie. The only worse result would have been actually losing! We wasted so many chances, well, it’s hard to write about even now.
Matthew? Well, I think he made a huge mistake that turned into the turnover that led to the first goal….underhit a ball trying to do something cute instead of clearing it forward when we were back in our end. Not a good moment. But it was the only bad moment in the game….he played well and controlled the middle and had a lot of nice distribution.
But that’s 1 point, instead of 3 points. And so that’s 2 points we will never have, while the other teams in our division will certainly get them. Because that team stinks!
The Game Report is below:
TEAM: 02 Boys Blue VS AC Milan
RESULT: 2-2
ATTACKING:
ATTACKING STRENGTHS
Created a lot of penetrating attacks out wide.
Created a lot of goal scoring chances and had a lot of one on ones with the goalkeeper
Looked to take on the opposition 1v1
ATTACKING CHALLENGES
Very poor in front of goal today. We created but wasted too many chances today
Didn’t look to swing the ball often enough. We had a wide open player in front of the goal but would choose to force balls into 3 defenders
Poor decision making from center mid’s in final third
DEFENDING
DEFENDING STRENGTHS
Handled their speedy player for most of the game.
Won most headers in the second half.
Gave options to play back, although we never really spoke to the players in front to encourage them to do it.
DEFENDING CHALLENGES
Poor defending for both goals. Allowed players to get open and we were ball watching and too reactive rather then proactive after the turnovers.
Passes back to goalkeeper were not at a good speed
Lack of communication from goalkeeper to center backs.
OVERALL COMMENTS
Well we had enough chances to score 10 -20 goals in each half today. Most of the chances were scrappy but we just were not switched on today. Too many players showed up today feeling this would be an easy game and then we wee rattled by their early goal. Before they scored we looked good and moved the ball; as soon as they scored we lost our focus and shape and didn’t move the ball well enough. They sat a lot of players back and if we want to be a good team we have to deal with this and learn to break them down. We can’t just force it we have to learn to be more patient!
