Game report: Fred's Market - Workdaze 4:4

It was a deja vu game against Fred's Market last night. Same as in the playoffs: if we would have had our full team together, we would have won that game. However, we missed several players again and the excuses are getting more and more bizarr: being on vacaction, being caught up at work is acceptable. But how about this: watching the kids while wife is horse riding (in the dark?!), or even better: rather going to watch some fish-food-hockey-team getting eaten by the Sharks (!!!).

We ended up playing with only 2 subs, getting help again from Mark Jaynes, who is about to become a steady part of team. Another problem was that several players just showed up when the game started. (Here is the coach speaking.) Maybe we should introduce some punishment for showing up late. How about last guy who shows up plays goalie? I know this would not really be a punishment for Salva, but could be fun.

Anyway, we started the game without being really ready and it was soon 2-0 for Fred's Market. It took us all first half to catch up with that result. Joe scored a beautiful goal of a rebound and Luiz tied the game. But the price was high for that. It took a lot of energy, especially since we had to take several penalties from our good friend with the whistle, including a 4-minute penalty at the end of second half for Luiz.

In the second half, we started out being better organized and played a solid defense trying to preserve our energy. The strategy paid off for a while. We scored on 2 fast counter attacks. First, Joe scored after a pass from Thomas. Then, we switched roles and did it again: Thomas scored after a pass from Joe and it was 4-2 for Workdaze. But the game was getting harder for us with every minute. Fred's Market put a lot of pressure on our goal now and our energy got less and less. They scored 2 times on rebounds, which is always a bit lucky, but we were too exhausted to turn it around again.

At the end, the game ended 4-4, which was a fair result.Goals: Joe (2), Luiz (1), Thomas (1).
Outstanding players of the night: Joe (Fred's Market was only able to take the ball from him with fouls, unfortunately, those fouls were rarely called by the ref)Armin (very busy in the offense causing a lot of trouble for Fred's Market's defense), Jon (for playing the whole game without any break, even playing in midfield some time !!!).Seamus (for keeping the beer supply flowing)