On Saturday night, we had a late game. 11 PM, to be precise. This was (obviously) hellaciously late, and to compound it all, we had a referee who is quite normally terrible. The game wasn't so bad, we won comfortably at 5-3 (With their last two coming late thanks to some defensive sloppiness), and I scored a treat and a half of a goal near in the first half.
The goal was a half volley taken down with my chest on the run after I headed it over some person then ran around them. I assisted another goal delivering a low cross inside the box to an unmarked teammate (my run had taken them all off him).
I've worked out the formation for the 7-a-side outdoor season recently, and in spite of spending about an hour tinkering with new formations (2-2-3, 2-3-2, etc...), I settled on pretty much the same formation as we've always used, the 3-3-1, with one minor difference; moving one of the defenders into a holding midfield role, acting as a deep-lying playmaker. The result is a 2-1-3-1, where the midfield plays higher up the pitch than usual. Width is also key in this formation, I hope to use it to spread defenses out with the advanced midfielders.
The positions will be a bit different, we used to all come back on defense, but now we'll be trying to counter as much as possible, so the wings will almost exclusively play wide and in an attacking manner. I'm debating getting the striker and attacking midfielder to come back, creating a huge gap in the center of the field when we're defending. The first attacking pass will be out wide, then the striker and attacking mid will break out and counter, with the holding midfielder following them shortly. From there, the strategy would be to (probably) either carry it up the side, deliver a lead pass to the striker, or a square pass to the attacking midfielder. Aside from the counter, generally play would be wide and involve working it around the defense, spreading them out, and counting on go-and-gos and individual skill to split the defense.
This season, pre-season practices will be (somewhat) mandatory, as well, in order to show interest in playing. We had a few issues last year with attendance, so hopefully this makes the team take it more seriously. Maybe, if there were a little more competition the team would take it more seriously as well.
The goal was a half volley taken down with my chest on the run after I headed it over some person then ran around them. I assisted another goal delivering a low cross inside the box to an unmarked teammate (my run had taken them all off him).
I've worked out the formation for the 7-a-side outdoor season recently, and in spite of spending about an hour tinkering with new formations (2-2-3, 2-3-2, etc...), I settled on pretty much the same formation as we've always used, the 3-3-1, with one minor difference; moving one of the defenders into a holding midfield role, acting as a deep-lying playmaker. The result is a 2-1-3-1, where the midfield plays higher up the pitch than usual. Width is also key in this formation, I hope to use it to spread defenses out with the advanced midfielders.
The positions will be a bit different, we used to all come back on defense, but now we'll be trying to counter as much as possible, so the wings will almost exclusively play wide and in an attacking manner. I'm debating getting the striker and attacking midfielder to come back, creating a huge gap in the center of the field when we're defending. The first attacking pass will be out wide, then the striker and attacking mid will break out and counter, with the holding midfielder following them shortly. From there, the strategy would be to (probably) either carry it up the side, deliver a lead pass to the striker, or a square pass to the attacking midfielder. Aside from the counter, generally play would be wide and involve working it around the defense, spreading them out, and counting on go-and-gos and individual skill to split the defense.
This season, pre-season practices will be (somewhat) mandatory, as well, in order to show interest in playing. We had a few issues last year with attendance, so hopefully this makes the team take it more seriously. Maybe, if there were a little more competition the team would take it more seriously as well.
Normally, I'm a pretty optimistic fellow, though tonight's game against friendly rivals Superfriends spells trouble for us. They're atop the league with a perfect record and a massive amount of goals scored for, and their goals against record is even better.
Anything but a drubbing would be a positive result, but we'll see.
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methinks the title is good enough for the past two games
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