Bramhall Rangers 7 White Russians 15
Attack is the worst form of defence!
In a change of fortunes for the Rangers it was their defensive capabilities that were lacking this week and they in fact looked quite good going forward, scoring more goals than they had in most recent games.
Belly was resting a knee injury, which had given him a few problems over the last few weeks, Dr Holland was still nursing an Achilles injury, and Mr T and Shiz were scouting for talent in the Baltic’s. It was a threadbare team, with Hedderz OK for the early KO, Pie, Piggy, Rascle (with a niggling back injury) and Nev arriving just before the start to make up the numbers. Mini started his second game of the season in goal, and was still amongst the walking wounded! White Russians had 6 players too so it was a well-matched game.
It was a tense start by both teams, sensing that they were quite evenly matched. The White Russians did take a two-goal lead, breaking quickly with two nippy attackers and some half-hearted Rangers defending. Rangers did hit back through Hedderz after good work by Piggy down the flank. Hedderz was making a last desperate push for the “tin slipper” with just 1 game to go after this!
The order of goals isn’t easy to recall, but safe to say the HT score was 7-4. The highlight of the first half performance was a superbly taken goal from Rascle. A through ball from Piggy dissected the defence, Rascle latched onto it and left it until the last possible moment before gently lifting it over the advancing keeper with a deft right foot touch!! Lovely stuff! Rangers actually ended the half well, clawing back a couple of goals. Piggy also grabbed his first two of the game, the keeper letting a soft shot through his grasp for one and a decent finish from wide for his other. As they say, if you don’t buy a ticket you wont win a Piggy!
HT probably came at a good time for White Russians as the Rangers were biting back. But, as ever a rest was needed and a regrouping to see how the Rangers would approach the second half. We needed to close down the attackers quicker and not give them shooting chances.
Second half started similar to the first, and it was defensive frailties that let to the Russians opening an unassailable gap. Being quicker to the 50/50 balls was a key course to the game, as they looked hungrier in the challenge and mopped up the rebounds off the boards and from Mini’s saves.
Rangers did show promise going forward, Hedderz and Piggy linking up well with just a final pass letting them down. Piggy did grab his third of the game to nearly guarantee him the coveted slipper, though Hedderz did also grab another to keep him in with a very slim chance of the award, driving home with power. Pie got his glory, battling well down the left and the ball falling kindly for him to lash home for his only goal of the game.
Nev was resolute in defence, but was often swamped by Russians on the break, and Mini did his best to stem the tide, pulling off some instinctive saves and bruising and scraping his elbows! A hotly contested game awaits the Rangers in the last match of the season against Northern Canaries. A chance to go out on a high and rebuild for next season!
Final Score: Bramhall Rangers 7 White Russians 15
Goals: Pie (1), Rascle (1), Piggy (3), Hedderz (2)
This report was brought to you by http://minimanadventures.blogspot.com/. First for interesting things.
In a change of fortunes for the Rangers it was their defensive capabilities that were lacking this week and they in fact looked quite good going forward, scoring more goals than they had in most recent games.
Belly was resting a knee injury, which had given him a few problems over the last few weeks, Dr Holland was still nursing an Achilles injury, and Mr T and Shiz were scouting for talent in the Baltic’s. It was a threadbare team, with Hedderz OK for the early KO, Pie, Piggy, Rascle (with a niggling back injury) and Nev arriving just before the start to make up the numbers. Mini started his second game of the season in goal, and was still amongst the walking wounded! White Russians had 6 players too so it was a well-matched game.
It was a tense start by both teams, sensing that they were quite evenly matched. The White Russians did take a two-goal lead, breaking quickly with two nippy attackers and some half-hearted Rangers defending. Rangers did hit back through Hedderz after good work by Piggy down the flank. Hedderz was making a last desperate push for the “tin slipper” with just 1 game to go after this!
The order of goals isn’t easy to recall, but safe to say the HT score was 7-4. The highlight of the first half performance was a superbly taken goal from Rascle. A through ball from Piggy dissected the defence, Rascle latched onto it and left it until the last possible moment before gently lifting it over the advancing keeper with a deft right foot touch!! Lovely stuff! Rangers actually ended the half well, clawing back a couple of goals. Piggy also grabbed his first two of the game, the keeper letting a soft shot through his grasp for one and a decent finish from wide for his other. As they say, if you don’t buy a ticket you wont win a Piggy!
HT probably came at a good time for White Russians as the Rangers were biting back. But, as ever a rest was needed and a regrouping to see how the Rangers would approach the second half. We needed to close down the attackers quicker and not give them shooting chances.
Second half started similar to the first, and it was defensive frailties that let to the Russians opening an unassailable gap. Being quicker to the 50/50 balls was a key course to the game, as they looked hungrier in the challenge and mopped up the rebounds off the boards and from Mini’s saves.
Rangers did show promise going forward, Hedderz and Piggy linking up well with just a final pass letting them down. Piggy did grab his third of the game to nearly guarantee him the coveted slipper, though Hedderz did also grab another to keep him in with a very slim chance of the award, driving home with power. Pie got his glory, battling well down the left and the ball falling kindly for him to lash home for his only goal of the game.
Nev was resolute in defence, but was often swamped by Russians on the break, and Mini did his best to stem the tide, pulling off some instinctive saves and bruising and scraping his elbows! A hotly contested game awaits the Rangers in the last match of the season against Northern Canaries. A chance to go out on a high and rebuild for next season!
Final Score: Bramhall Rangers 7 White Russians 15
Goals: Pie (1), Rascle (1), Piggy (3), Hedderz (2)
This report was brought to you by http://minimanadventures.blogspot.com/. First for interesting things.
posted by Mini at 9:22 am
2 Comments:
Well done mini man! Back to a better quality of reporting on matches i see! Except for forgetting how goals are scored! It's quite funny really. Wondering whether its worth having goal of the season. Does anyone remember a good goal scored this year? Other than one you've scored yourself. Not just that, if something like mine was classed as best, hardly any players were there to see it, and therefore vote for it!!
Anyway, match wise it was nice to see breaking forward. Tho the russians let us do that as they left 2 people up front. Which meant when we lost the ball, without the legs of shiz or mark there was no-one to run back! Still. Nice to see some scoring from the rangers after a long barren spell!
Rascle
I agree with Russ on goal of the season. The games are generally so high scoring that I rarely remember that many at all. I do think it would be good to try and have some other attacking award though... maybe something like the creative player of the season (scope on things like free kicks etc). Just an idea, not that arsed about it though.
Crunch match next week... any chance of a full squad?
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