Observing the others team matches pays off. Yesterday I was watching KAS vs BCIS and I’ve noticed how skilful their #1 was. Very good at passing and dribbling. This rose my concern level, considering today we will play three matches and the last match of the day is against BISS Pudong, the other great team in ACAMIS. To make things even more challenging, temperature were around 28 degrees and pollution levels 205. This would call to modify the match, in our case, it was 1st half 20 minutes and 2nd half 15 minutes. Later in the day, the organization had a better decision by instead of shortening, stop every 10 minutes for a break.
Against KAS we started with Bella, Kyra and Mikayla, Inês, Suh-Young, Alva and Franziska. Like I’ve said above, their #1 is good and the actual first chance of goal in the match came from her, a slow shot at our goal that our Swedish Black Spider defended easily. Right after, the first accident in the match; Alva stretches a pass to Franziska, where she sprints together with their #6. The problem is that their #6 crashes into their own goalie, hurting the goalie’s knee. Game is paused for 3 minutes since seemed very serious, unfortunately.
With a new goalie, KAS kept their good game, with us keeping an eye on their #1. Mikayla was almost shadowing her when she managed to get a ball on the side of our box. Mikayla took the ball away from her and the #1 fell and the referee gave a free kick. Right after, another dangerous free kick. Kyra tried to get rid of the ball and hit Inês hands ALMOST on the line of the penalty box. Both free kicks were out.
It was a weird game with neither team having full control of the match. The first solid goal chance was at 12 minutes when Franziska when Alva gave a wonderful pass to Franziska in the box but the goalie saved. Things changed when the following minute, our Portuguese Brain passed to our Happy Viking and she shot outside the reach of the goalie. 1 x 0 SCIS, way to go, Alva!
Now with Tehillah on Mikayla’s position, was her job to shadow #1, which she did a little bit too close, defying the Laws of Physics that says two bodies cannot occupy the same space. With 16 minutes, both of them crashed against each other and since our Dutch is indestructible, KAS #1 fell to the ground. I have to say that watching the video, I saw her some minutes early asking to be subbed so I guess besides the crash, she was already exhausted. The problem is since Tehillah kept standing up, of course seemed to be all Tehillah’s fault, which was not. Unfortunately their #1 was out for the match.
The second half was fairly boring. We had Suh-young as striker with Phoebe and Tehillah defending, Sinead on the left and Alva on the right with Inês center midfield. The highlight of the second half was with 6 minutes to end the match, Sinead, Phoebe and Tehillah go to the same ball and misses it, ending up on the foot of a KAS player in front of Bella, with another player free on the left. Luckily KAS shot a slow ball and Bella defended it fairly easy. Right after, in a corner kick, one of the rare moments that Bella made a wrong call and the ball passed freely in front of out empty goal but there was no striker from KAS to push it into the net.
Before the final whistle, Suh-Young had some shots to score a goal but were weak shots or away of the goal. At least we managed to keep the ball away from out area. This game was the one that the ball spent more time in our defensive area in whole ACAMIS, believe it or not. No wonder BISS Pudong tied 0 x 0 vs them. So first match of the day done, two more to go.
Goals: Alva
Assists: Inês
MVP of the match: Alva