Sunday, 18 December 2016

Match Report: Arrows 1 - Princes Villa 5

We last met Princes Villa two months ago and the score line was the same (5-1 to the opposition) and looking back at that match report I called out how well we kept and passed the ball to really stretch PV, whilst at times we unnecessarily invited pressure onto ourselves which, when added to a few lucky goals led to our defeat that day. Today was similar in some aspects, but unfortunately we decided not to use our passing and positional awareness and instead, on the whole invited PV to put an awful lot of pressure onto us which cost us heavily.

From our point of view, not all, but most of our players today didn’t seem up for it – there was a lot of tiredness throughout and we seemed very lethargic and we started to fall back to how we played at times early on in the season in that we didn’t seem willing to put pressure on the ball and on the occasions we did, we didn’t see it through with a second tackle or push up the field, or we kept trying to do the same thing again and again which PV quickly recognised and cut the play down. PV have one or two individually skilled players, but the Arrows as a team can outplay them, I’m certain of this; but they need to want it, and today they just mostly didn’t – I know that may sound harsh, but it’s what we all saw this morning.

I felt that we all collectively started off on the back foot this morning – there wasn’t a decent number of goal builders like we normally see (many, many thanks though to the Parents (and cajoled Grandparents!) that did help us get ready). On top of that we had nearly half the boys getting here late this morning – this then impacts on how warmed up and ready to play they all are - at 20 minutes to kick-off we only had 5 boys on site ready to warm up and at 15 minutes we had 7... Being fully ready to warm up with goals prepared and in place really does set the tone for the rest of the session so can I ask all parents to really help us in this aspect going forward.

Our bookings for training for the next two Fridays have been cancelled by the club and County Offices so unless you hear anything from me regarding a friendly between Christmas and New Year then we should next convene on Friday 6th January. I’ll drop out confirmations either way before then.

I hope you all have a great festive period and some much needed rest.

Carl
AFC Waverton u9 Arrows & u9 Dynamos
07896 515717

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