W.I.S.E 2 A.B.C.Amis 1
It was by no means a pretty match, but the W.I.S.E., in what was the final home game of the league season and penultimate of the season, came away with the deserved win to strengthen their chances of making the playoffs.
Playing for the last time at our "home ground" at Bordeaux Lac, I didn't touch the ball at all for the first half hour of the match and was frustratingly beaten after 25 or so. A long throw-in beat the defence leaving the striker one-on-one, and he chipped it over me and tapped it home from a metre or so. This was really annoying as I was hoping for another clean-sheet like I achieved in our previous meeting back in December (click to read report).
I got my first touch just after the half hour with a shot from wide on my right that was straight at me, and then had to charge out of my box to prevent us going further behind. Before their goal, we had all the chances and really should have been three or four goals ahead, and now they had scored it felt like we would never score!
However, from a corner, Jack got his name on the score sheet, and then from a Jean-Greg free kick (complete with Roberto Carlos style long run-up) Tom converted the rebound to take him to only one goal behind Simon in the scoring charts. Both our goals came just before half time and that was the way the game ended. Thankfully!
It could've been much different though and I nearly was embarrassed seconds into the second half when a shot from all of 35/40 metres took an absolutely horrible bounce and leapt up over my head as I rushed out to gather (thankfully I was just about able to push it over the bar). I had a much busier second half in comparison with the first, and had to leave my goal a few more times, which got more and more difficult as the rain worsened and turned my penalty area to sludge.
We should have had a penalty, when Jack was tripped inside the area, but in the end, it did not matter. We had won again, and now face Chambery in the final game of the season next Friday. Currently it looks like anything but a loss would mean we reach the playoffs...
My competitive record (to date) [not including friendlies...]:
Played 9 - Won 5 - Drawn 2 - Lost 2 - Goals conceded 12 - Clean sheets 2
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