After Saturday’s two wins we know that we will be playing in the Finals. And both games today will be against the same team; King City Royals from a suburb of Toronto
Game 3: 3-2 Loss
Three things of note from this game:
1) We come out with a different starting lineup than in the previous games. Our striker is pushed out to left mid. Matthew and Jackson, two of our starting center mids, are not on the field. One of our starting center backs is pushed out to right back. We obviously aren’t playing to really win.
I hate this. Matthew said something similar on the drive down and I told him how ‘unsavory’ I thought the idea of losing this game to possibly win the next was. And this team is so uneven, so *not* mentally tough,…..just don’t like it.
And we give up 3 goals in the first 10 minutes of the game.
2) It’s 3-2 by the half. We dominate the last 60 minutes of this game. Their parents whopped it up after the game but I’m not sure how anyone of those Canadians could have thought they had any chance in the final. They were tired, they were out of breath, and we carried the play to them but were just unlucky in finishing.
3) Matthew gets his second yellow card in two months….this one is for doing something I’ve been warning him about for months. He has gotten increasingly mouthy towards the refs when he doesn’t like their calls AND he doesn’t like any of their calls when they are against him. So, he picks up a foul (and I’ll agree with him, it was a weak call) and gets up and turns to the ref and says “Are you freakin’ kidding me???” and the ref blows his whistle again and pulls the card out of his pocket.
Dad shuts the camera off and yells out as loudly as he can “DON’T TALK TO THE REF!!!”
Game 4 (Championship): 5-2 Win. We won this going away….it was 4-1 at halftime.
Suzanne took a few more pictures during this game as well
The first of about five shots in a row of Matthew approaching and taking a corner kick. Worked out okay, we got a good shot on goal out of it.
The shirts say “Undisputed Champions”
League games don’t start until September 19th. So there won’t be many soccer posts for a while.
