the tournament started today...

Round robin matchday 1 of campus sport men's soccer tournament, wednesday round. we lost 5-3. somehow after the match i didn't feel dissapointed or sad or angry at all, and i am quite suprised with myself. considering our team had many players who haven't played with each other before or in a long while, i shouldn't have chosen an inexperienced and unfamiliar line-up that ended up letting in 3 goals in the first 5 (or was it 10 mins in the first half, of 20 mins). i shouldn't have split gab and weian up, cos when they played together (with me and daryl) in the 2nd half we scored 3 in 5 mins too. and none arose from defensive mistakes, unlike almost all the goals of the opponents.

so what was supposed to be a sure win game ended up as a lost (4-0 in the first half!). and now we have a giant mountain to climb in qualifying (1st and 2nd qualify in a 5 team group), since the last team we are playing is the best team, the previous winner.

anyway despite the defeat i felt that gab played very well, as we observed no step overs and 2 goals. weian played well too and the partnership of gab and weian with their fast and intelligent movement was consoling. i was wrong to have played them apart, neglecting the effects of synergy from those 2.

and we were being spied on! i need to talk to sepp on the issue of oppostion team players attending my team's team talks in the dressing room! the offender even tried to confuse my players by giving nonsensical instructions while the game was going on. what is this world coming too?

anyway for more news and information, pls check out http://sants-six.blogspot.com/ . til next time...