Monday Morning Report: October 12 - The Devils go down

ACDC was “back in black” for a chilly early morning start this week, starting a man short (but an extra woman on). 26 people were invited to play, 10 declined, and 16 were on the “yes” list. We ended up playing with one sub in the first half and a man down in the second half (due to two early departures – one management was aware of, the second management was un-aware of). As the co-ed captain, it’s frustrating thinking you have numbers and then barely having enough to squeak by. Enough of the personnel issues…

We played a much weaker side on a damp field which made for some fast played balls and helped us to pummel their goal early in the game. Unfortunately, despite their sub-par goalie, most shots were not on frame and those that were, were easily stopped by their goalie. A near goal came from a cross that connected with Opus’s head and was just a foot shy of the back of the old onion bag. A break game mid-way in the first half as one of our players sent a cross into the box from the left side of the pitch which deflected off one of their own players and into the net and allowed us to go up 1-0. The crosses were an effective way for us to dump the ball into their goal box and threaten them and we did a good job with this. (read, more shots on FRAME).

Later that half, two much more skilled strikers who had arrived late, checked into the match for our opposition. A ball was played over the top to our right side and a foot race ensued…. their new striker was able to one-touch the ball with the outside of his right boot and tuck the ball into the side netting (quite a shot I must add, but to be out-done by ACDC in the second half).

The second half found us a man down but similarly controlling the tempo of the game with ACDC dominating with several shots on goal. Nicole was played the ball on a center from the outside right wing. She spun on the ball to drop the defender and then popped the ball into the back of the net for our go ahead goal. Quite a goal it was.

A couple scares the second half for us on several corner kick opportunities by our opposition but we kept a clean sheet in the second half. All in all, a good game for ACDC co-ed but we have to get numbers to these games, especially if people commit.