Monday Morning Report: March 16

OUTBREAK...

AC D.C. ... the whole darn team...caught the Nikolas Bendtner disease!

In a span of 3 minutes during the game against Rovers on Saturday, Bendtner (aka completely retarded and useless arseh*le) had 4-5 solid, harder-to-miss-than-to-score chances which he failed to finish.  This led the whole stadium, all 60,304 fans, to scream for his head (and his pink boots....god I love that stadium and the fans in the seats).  

It seems his disease travelled overnight to Washington D.C., and we caught it.  Playing TPS Report 2.0 (what kind of a name for a footballing squad is that?) on Sunday, we were simply unable to finish.  Granted, our opponents were not bad, and they had one ball trickle all the way across our goal, but we had loads more chances than they did.  Ali had a breakaway against the keeper.  Peter, very Messi-like, had another which he tucked safely into the goalkeeper's belly (doh!).  Luis, very Dani Alves-like, ran onto a ball rolling across an empty net, and was just shy of touching it home.  Imi had shots on goal and so did Lindsay.  We were just not able to produce.

There seems to be a lot of rust.  Our passes were just not very crisp and were more often behind the receiver than in front.  But there is good news.  Our defense remains solid (we were under threat only rarely), and Luis is back to full fitness from his tibial plateau fracture.

Oh well.  There will be days like these.  I can't count how many seasons we have started with a nil-nil result.  It seems to be our favorite score line for the first co-ed game.  But our opponent next week will be a tough one, so we'll need to shake off that rust and kill off the game.