Morningstar B 0 - 0 Sports Interactive C

After an 8-2 drumming last week it appears we had a much improved performance this week. Gimp of the game goes to Chris Crow for his penalty miss and Man of Match goes to Salvatore. My basis for MoM is on an email from Scotty Mac.

Match analysis is provided by Salvatore:

Good Game guys!

We did 0-0 against a team last year we lost 5-0.

This time

1) we have been narrow,

2) we pressed only on hour half

3) we closed the space available to the opponents

The result has been that

- they shot from distance only 2 times

- they made a lot of useless possession on their half

- we spent our energy in a much clever way, (Jim, we were not better fitted then them!)

We had at least 2 clear goal opportunities with the penalty of Chris and the shot of Jamie in front of the keeper after a wonderful dribbling. I am pleased with Idrees as he kept the position much better then the previous games.

The other good news is that we still have a lot of unexpressed potential.

In particular:

1) The movements off the ball during the attacking phase can still improve. I saw sometimes people running to the opponent goal without caring about the visual space available to the holder of the ball. The visual space of the playmaker is the most important think. Run only if your run can suggest a pass, otherwise you make the pass difficult and you basically mark yourself giving a man advantage to the opponent. The most important thing is to provide the space for the pass to your teammate. So do not run behind the defenders if the ball holder have no space for the pass

2) Passing. Their keeper this time has come up to the midfield several times. This is a threat for them that we need to exploit! Once we win the ball check immediately if it is possible an easy pass for the counter attack. We slept a bit on this today.

On Shooting we are not that great so allow me to remember that when shooting from distance we should try to stretch completely the neck and the toes of the foot. Thus the energy of the leg will not be absorbed by a flabby foot. Our body should lean forward so that the ball will not go up.