MAIF 2 - 4 Bromma Kids

What an un-inspiring game we witnessed. On either side, the kids were just more efficient, they scored on all 4 of their occasions.

Both teams started out quite slowly. You could tell they were both nervous. Too nervous, one of the kids' defender got a yellow in the 2nd minute, how smart. MAIF played as if meeting AIK or Djurgården or something. They played simple, frigid, frightened game, many short passes, many of them intercepted but still they kept on for 90 minutes of the same.

Pavel was not in a good day, making quite many misses, giving away many easy balls. Hirsa was not on a very good day either, often late on actions. I.e. the central midfield was mostly absent. And when showing up, we let the kids bring the goal up. Hint for next training session: train short distance tackling, ball stealing techniques and stopping techniques. Midfielder shall never be allowed to move the ball 50m up completely unchallenged, except for that guy 2m ahead just backing at the same pace.
The back line was keeping too much distance between them, sometimes they looked like a baby-foot's back-line, not covering each other well and not playing the off-side well at all. Lindberg was quite obviously not in his best day. Although admittedly the kids' back-line had many holes too. Which we did not manage to take advantage of enough.
Thomas was not too inspired either with his half-time tactical change from 4-4-2 to 3-5-1. Or well, it could have been if the midfield players had tried to over-power BP's defense. Anyway, I'm no fan of that configuration, especially when you have a defense that has already shown obvious signs of deficiencies, and you take out one of the most inspired of the lot.
Dusan seemed (from my place) to have been late or dreaming on 1 goal, but all 3 others were direct consequences of the inaction in the midfield and disorganisation in the back.

All in all, the best player on the field was the referee.

Worth mentioning were Eken, very active this sunday, and Johan and Olsson, speedy and provocative as usual.
Simon played up front like at the beginning of the season: slow, uncertain, not even good on the headers and not agressive. Same cause, same consequence: .

The kids' trainer said after the game he was (of course) happy to have won since his team had lost the previous 3 games. To what Thomas answered basically the opposite, we had won the previous 3 games and now we lost. Because we were too shy, not agressive enough (I must have made that comment after all 27 games this season), playing 4th grade football. I want to see SuperEttan football, nothing less. I have seen it in too few occasions, but I know it's there, somewhere. Don't forget to invite it to next game.