Monday Afternoon Report (co-ed): October 26 - The Farid Clinic

The weather gods changed their minds in the course of less than 24 hours as the cold and soaking wet grass of Saturday men’s league match gave way to a crisp and sunny morning on field turf at Dunbar for our Co-Ed side.

Despite the early morning game, and the Marine Corp Marathon blocking several roads, ACDC was able to field a full squad and people arrived on time (awesome job guys & gals). The same could not be said for our opponent who started a short.

The first half was a solid one for ACDC as we moved the ball around the pitch well, used drop passes, dominated possession, took numerous shots on goal, and prevented any real dangerous attacks on defense. Parham had a goal toward the tail end of the first half to put us up 1-0. At half time, there were no pissing on the snake analogies, rather a “if you prevent any goals, you will win” talk….which brought up some comical responses from our chipper group.

The second half was morbid defensively as we (I speak as a player of ACDC and as a defenseman) allowed too many shots on goal, and when we had opportunities to clear the ball, did not clear the ball strongly enough out of play or up field. It wasn’t long before they found themselves fumbling in our 6-yard box and Georgie pulling a “Robbie” and sweeping the feet out from underneath an opposing striker. The official swiftly issued a penalty kick, but no booking, and we were looking at a draw when their PK dropped in the net.

Dr Farhid came to the rescue yet again to put us up 2-1 and taking some steam away from our opponent. Then again, defensively we allowed them to ricochet the ball around in the box and poke a ball into the back of the onion bag to tie it up, 2-2 with few minutes left in the game. As if two goals we not enough for El Mastero, Dr. Farhid slammed a 3rd and final goal into the oppositions net for us to take the lead 3-2 and go into the whistle with a win.

I’m sure we’ll here more comments on what needs to be done better from Penguin. “And that’s the way it is, ACDC news; good night.” – The Late Walter Cronkite