The recent two games we played are kind of bitzare. Our defense allowed more goals than we ever did. Defense always win the game. We were facing a much stronger team in our first league game and we tied them 0:0 with good defense. With a lit bit more luck, we could have defeated them. We do not have a game strategy as to how we should play. "The Who" is not a stronger team and historically never beat us before. They know us well and they came up with a counter-attack stragey and it worked. Trailing the game 0:2 are always hard to play. We probably need more sense of urgency if we are behind and need to move the ball forward quickly and commit more offense power, especially for the mid-field. Yesterday's yelling and shouting was bad. Poor and no calls from refree affected our play emotions. Agree with Xiao Yang that we should light up and have more fun. Next time we should have only one voice on and off the field. The rest of us shall keep the mouth shut except encouraging words. Also feel our pace is too slow . Should improve our play energy. ( sign of aging ? ) Si Si, I might miss the next two games due to "vacation". Will let you know my status. Scott "Chen, Mark" wrote: > All, > > Is The Who? a really bad team? Should we feel upset about the 2:2 tie? > The answer is No. Just look at their result, and last season's, I do not > think so. They played pretty smart yesterday by having 6 players as > defense and counter-attacking us. That is something we should learn. > > We were unlucky, 0:2 finished the 1st half! Those two goals could have > been avoided. No blaming. It was just unlucky. > > We were lucky, 2:0 finished the 2nd half! They could have scored one > more and we could have scored at least couple of more goals. > > What do we need to improve? More mid-fielders participating attacking. > Not assist! But obviously most of mid-fielders do not have enough body > strength to last long and stay long enough. Forward's ability to move > left/right, switching positions, etc. Ray's role in yesterday's game is > really superb! Left mid-fielders need to catch up. I did not see > dangerous plays from the left at all! Center mid-fielder's involvement > in attacking was almost zero. Well, it was my fault the first place. I > wanted to play harder......but.....(I was running a little fever and > could not even scream too much.) > > Defenders' involvement in attacking is much needed. Assisting. This has > been mentioned actually for Thursday's practice session as well. Mid > range accurate passing needs to improve. It is really a surprise to see > when balls are intercepted because of lack of accuracy/strength. > > Team's strategy: Comments are welcome. > 1) Play team counter-attack if opponents all come out to midfield and > attack us; This will be our team's default strategy; > 2) When opponents play counter-attack in case we need to win the game, > we play all team offense. I will play the last defender's position, > while Li Huan could play left midfield. Zhou Ge/Xiao Su play center for > attacking only. > 3) Mutual attacking? Don't know yet. > > Again, please voice your comments if any, and we could try it out in our > Thursday's practice. Do we need to have Thursday's practice? Yes, no > doubt about it. We passed/controlled the balls really good in general > yesterday in the back field. But speed might be too slow, in observation > of trailing 0:2. Balls got lost when it went to the forward field, in > form of 45 high balls, wrong passings, driblings etc. I think our > midfielder's attacking speed needs to be improved. > > Anyway, this 30C division teams are quite even in team skills/strength. > I think all the 7 teams are able to beat us and we can also beat any one > of them as well. This is the fact! No easy wins in this division, even > with the last standing team! Can we easily win FC Devan (last place) and > United SC (last 2nd place)? ? ? > > Please remember no too much blamings on/off the field and that we belong > to the same team, win or loose! Let's improve our team from each and > every player first. > > Go Dragons, > -Chen, Si > > PS, next Sunday's game vs FC Devan will be delayed to 5:00pm instead of > 11:00am. Details to follow. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Bao | | fax: 469-255-9490 Cisco Systems, Inc .|||. .|||. voice: 469-255-4176 2200 E. President George Bush Turnpike .:|||||:. .:|||||:. http://www.cisco.com Richardson,TX 75082 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: mailto:sbao@cisco.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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