Another long recap of a season.
One youth coach that Matthew did some training sessions with has been quotes as saying the perfect tournament is 1 win, 1 loss, and 1 tie. I think this is great in practice…..if all the teams you are facing are about the same as you then ok. If they are all better than you then that result is really good. But, if the teams stink…that result stinks to.
We finished the fall season with 3 wins, 3 ties, and 3 losses. That’s good, in many ways, since it is the first time we’ve played up in that division and the result means a) we will be in the same division this spring and b) certainly showed we belong.
The bad news? We should have done better.
Games 1 and 2: PSG and Troy. A 0-0 and 1-1 tie. Both games should have been wins…we certainly dominated possession but, as is the norm for this team, didn’t.
I think the Troy game was the one where we missed more of the chances….they were certainly on their heels the whole time but we just couldn’t get it done. Matthew missed both of these games because of injury (I’ll do a whole post on *that* later)
Game 3: Force. Beat a bad team handily, 3-1. The last of the games that Matthew missed….we were in Marquette eating dinner as we received text updates about this game.
Game 4: The big grudge magtch against Matthew’s former team. He only plays about 10 minutes in each half since he is just coming back from his injury. And it is so so obvious that they want this game more than us….from the way their ass-hat of a coach screams throughout and how the other team reacts to that. We lose 2-1.
Chicago Tournament: Go 1-2 against some really good competition. Beat the team from Michigan we should have beaten, lose 2-0 to a really good Chicago team and then lose 1-0 to a team from Wisconsin because we are stupid and give up a goal 20 seconds in. But just playing that team from Wisconsin even for so long is a good thing…
Game 5: Again beat up on a team that we should beat up on, 4-1.
Game 6: Not entered correctly in the image above, we win 2-0. A nice win against a team that had a bunch of their high schoolers back.
Game 7: Lost 1-0. We had our chances but I’ll say this was a game we deserved to be on the losing end of. Had a great chance to tie it late though.
Game 8: Tie 1-1. Dominated this game and gave up a goal late to let them have the tie. A good result nonetheless.
Game 9: Lost 3-2. We were winning 2-0. We were winning 2-1 with 5 minutes to go. And then we choked, like dogs, and lost 3-2. Might have had a really bad offsides call go against us too but still….
Matthew scores his only goal of the year in this game.
So, from a team perspective, a good, but certainly not great year with lots of room for improvement.
From a Matthew perspective….it was going great until the injury. And then he spent the rest of the fall trying to get back to where he was before the injury. Might have gotten close in that last game.
Videos? They are all out at the youtube channel.
