Sunday, May 14, 2006

Shortest football game ever

The game today lasted around 3 minutes. The last 3 minutes, from minute 90 to minute 93.
Before that it was a lot of balls to the left, to the right, bla bla bla, a screw-up in central defense 0-1, some more balls to the left, and to the right, bla bla bla, another screw-up in central defense 0-2, and then somehow the team woke up at the 90th minute, and scored 2 goals during stop time. First Johan Svensson transperced the defense and shot a cross unreachable to the Assyriska keeper, and then at 92:30 Olsson sent in another ball in the net.
If they didn't know, Assyriska should have learned a lesson today: the best defense is attack, they were pulling back too much at the end.

Why was it so? Well, around the 80th minute, it was quite obvious from my place actually: we had 4-5 players in defense, 4-5 players in offense and 10 minus 5 minus 5 = zero players in the middle. Nobody.
So defense sends long ball up in the air, Mother Nature who was quite a bit blowy today puts a grain of salt or two in the equation, and the ball has to be somehow be taken down and sent further. But while the ball is up there flying, Assyriska had all the time to place themselves right, and since our forwards were not even always trying to get it, we lost 80% of these long balls, and made little of the remaining 20%.

Yellow Card to the referee, who was very much a pajas at times. He owes us 2 penalties: in the 1st half a hand by some Assyriska player in his own zone, and near the end the attack of the keeper on Johan Svensson was crystal clear, but Mr Hyvärinen was looking... elsewhere, and his line-man too apparently, despite being merely 10 meters away.

Hiir-Sa, Persson and Olsson were not very inspired today.

Good game by Danne, Eken (although the first goal starts from his mistake). As usual.

Fegler did what he could, the 2 goals being more or less 1-to-1 situations, even the best ones don't stop them all.

The replacers today Cederberg, Tobbe and Jonas did good. Good animation of the midfield and vision of the game by Jonas.

Best player on the pitch today was Johan Svensson, always agressive. A deserved Green Card.

Red Card to Sjöfors. Always slow, rarely turned in the right direction, waiting for the ball to came to him, i.e. the Assyriska player easily stole it from him. Unable to get rid of his defender to be in good position for the headers, and don't say it's impossible, just ask Tobbe how he does. Got a deserved yellow for an unsucessful Maradona. In the second half he did so little he was not even making fouls anymore.
Oh and by the way, Yellow Card to the trainer duo for leaving him there. To think that it takes 2 brains to not make this decision is beyond me. The final layout with Tobbe on the right and Eken in the front together with Olsson is working so well I don't know why it's only used the last 30 minutes of every other game or so.

Final Red Card goes to the Strubbarna. They have been absent so far this year. The 10 Assyriska supporters were standing for all the animation, singing and cheering all along. To which the Strubbarna responded with ... a deafening silence.
If the supporters are not even supporting at home, why are they even showing up? You're the 12th player, remember?

5 Comments:

At 21:30, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is always easy to complain over the Stubbers. But you don not do anything about it self. Come over and stnad with the stubbers and shout with them instead.....

And you are complain over Hiirsa and Persson. That say very much over yhat you do not now much about soccer..

Persson was one of the best player in MAIF today.

Is there someone how do not was that god it is Wille he his a disaster long terms in the matches.

 
At 22:15, Blogger SuperMink said...

Hiirsa and Persson were much better the last game at home but Hiirsa left the field injured. If it was this condition before the game...

The Sillastrybarna have been better but i can understand the football proposed today didn´t inspired them a lot... But a supporter group has to be present even during the bad times.

 
At 19:15, Blogger FrenchMink said...

Dear stubber,

as much as I may want to, I can't be in several places at a time. I think I'm doing my share of cheering and clapping from my place, sometimes starting the clapping for the free kicks too, I'm just asking the strubbarna to be less quiet on their side. And as SuperMink put it, the good supporters are always there and supporting, through good times and bad times as well.

In comparison to the game against the Bromma kids, I maintain that Persson and Hiir-Sa were not very inspired. They were not very bad, but not exactly flamboyant either. And 2 goals on the central axis is never good reference for the 2 central defensive midfielders.

Wille did ok during the 1st half while he was on our side (the speaker's side), but he's clearly not back to his 100% level.

 
At 09:04, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Regarding the comments on Hiirsa and Johan Persson. Take note that Hiirsa left the field injured. I suppose that could be one reason that he didn´t seem "too inspired". Question is if he started injured or if it was really before he left the field. (Trainer issue).

And if Hiirsa is not doing the expected job, Johan P should have more difficulties in making his. I don´t think he was at all bad though. Rather one of the better (more engaged) players in the field (not many where except first 15 minutes + last 3).

 
At 21:09, Blogger FrenchMink said...

Dear Ms/Mrs/Mr (whichever fits) Anonymous,

it might very well be because of injuries. Or maybe not. According to a BLT article from today Hiir-Sa's injury happened on the pitch, not before.
It does not change the result though: 2 goals, at least one of which started from the central midfield.

 

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