Italy Cup is ours!

We won the Italy Cup yesterday after a very close match with probably the best team we've played against. Their defense and ours were very good effectively stopping all short-range goals, so the difference was made with shots from long distance. Our players adapted to my instructions and Beavis Beckham showed that he has a very good execution at goals from long distance. The attackers did more of a recovery job because running with the ball in a position you can shoot was virtually impossible. Cyndee and Moore did a very good job at the midfield harassing their players when they attacked. And the defense blocked some dangerous shots. A special thank you goes to Darian who played even if he was still upset at me (I hope he isn't anymore) and Felice who made his first match as a keeper, who both had good saves.

Overall, my feeling is that we had superior posession and territory and that's why I was always confident that we will win. The only problem was finding a way to put the ball into the net and we did that eventually. The opponents shot the ball outside after recovering, effectively copying our tactic, and my feeling is that they prepared for a defensive game against us (they never attacked with many players), leading me to think that they viewed us as favourites, which I think gave us a psychological advantage.

For statistical reasons, I will give the game info after each game we play (look to the right where I started a team game history section):

First half: Darian - Ciona, Beavis, Marcuzz - Moore, Cyndee - Tarcisio(c), Radu, Zyl
Second half: Felice - Moore, Ciona, Marcuzz - Beavis, Cyndee - Tarcisio(c), Radu, Zyl

Scorers (after the halftime): Beavis, Zyl, Moore and Beavis.

Please if you have data from other games we've played (scorers, teams) especially from official games, send it to me, I want to make a statistic with official matches played/ goals for each player.

Congratulations for all the work you have put into this result!

New challanges await us! Fight SNN!