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Today vets 1 played Gast current leader of our group.
Conditions were good, a decent grass, a good weather and our team very focused on doing the right thing: playing when it was possible and keeping the necessary discipline against technical players. Our opponent had possession but they didn’t find the right combinations and spend most of the time trying to find their forwards through long balls which never surprised our defenders. When it did they did some smart fouls and so Francois our keeper didn’t have a lot of interventions to make. As we were mostly playing on counter attacks we saw quickly there were some possibilities on the wings. On one sequence Armand and John combined and allowed our Latvian marathon man to get in position but he was stopped irregularly on the edge of the box. On the free kick that followed, Goncalo tried his chance, the goal was deflected and John was there in the box to tap the ball in. 1-0 just the before end of first half, the perfect scenario!
On second half we kept our composure, Francois had a couple interventions to make Gast got frustrated with the referee and completely lost it getting 7 yellows and 1 red. We kept our advantage til the end, inflicting the leader their first loss of the season.
We beat GAST !!!!!
MOTM John.