We finish up our seven game season at Wixom with two games (with an hour in between). Two games against teams who will be in Premier 1; the first against MI Alliance (who beat us 3-0 early in January when we were missing five kids) and MI Tigers (who we beat 5-1 to start the Fall Season).
MI Alliance: Tied 1-1. I thought we controlled things; they scored first but it was really on their first or second chance on goal in the first 35 minutes. A fluky kind of goal too; our center back missed the bounce of a goal kick and their kid was off to the races. Our goal was fluky as well; their goalie misplayed it and that was that.
Thought the boy played well; spent most of this game at attacking center mid and did what he needed to do.
(click on the picture for the video…..he’s way over there on the far side…and is about to be fouled to set up a free kick from a good position. After the game, Matthew admitted it wasn’t much of a foul against him…..their coach was pretty upset about it)
MI Tigers: I wish we could play these guys all the time; they seem to have no answer for what we do. Beat them 3-1; they scored very late and we scored almost immediately afterwards.
(click. video. Played large portions of this game at right mid and was very effective here…set up some great chances on goal and really helped to make the offense go at times. Would like to see our team end up in this formation some; they had Matthew and his buddy Jackson (who are both normally center mids) out at left and right mid….and I think we were much more dangerous in the final third with our team deployed this way.)
A good winter season of soccer; wish we would have played like this in the fall….our spring would look a lot different!
