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Round 16
26/7 vs Orara
3 – 3 draw
This was a must win game for us to be
guaranteed a place in the top 4. Against the low placed Orara side we were
fairly confident and went in with an attacking line up.
The game started really well and we
played with plenty of control and passing to dominate the first 20 minutes.
Pretty soon we were up 2-0 with some good work up front from Aimee &
Bronte. However, Orara came back strongly and were really contesting the ball
in midfield, but we kept holding them at the back with good defence.
A goal to Orara from an excellent
corner saw us 2-1 at half time, which was really not a reflection of the
dominance we had in the game.
The 2nd half continued along
the same lines, we actually slipped to 3-2 down after 2 more goals from corners.
There was very little we could have done to stop these, and we stuck with our
game plan to continually fire shots on the Orara goal. We really pushed forward
in attack now with only 3 at the back and finally the equaliser came with 10
minutes to go. The shot count kept ticking up for us but we simply could not
get the goal we needed and finished 3-3.
This was a really good effort and on
another day with some luck could easily have seen us win by several goals. 2 of
the Orara corners were simply brilliant and extremely difficult to stop and
they really did not threaten our goal except from the corner spot
Player of the match was Aimee, we will
miss your experience and control up front, good luck in the USA!
Bronte, Shauna & Liana all had
really good games as well
Mike Lloyd
Coach