Nona-gone

We managed to get a crew together to set sail upon the voyage into the 2013-14 IFL league season and the merry men were able to raise the FC Twenty Jolly Roger aloft after plundering the newly formed FC Britanico. A micro objective of FC Twenty is to win each half (albeit secondary to the overarching aim of winning the match), as often we half put in a good first half performance but wilted in the second half. This was a grave possibility on this occasion as we only had FIVE players and no subs to bring in if scurvy was to set in on any of the crew. (Maybe one nautical reference too far?). Back to the game we did manage to win each half and not only that we outdid our first half performance in the second half. We set a good early tempo and attacked the opponents and soon found our reward with a quick fire two goal lead. We kept pressing and creating opportunities and took a three goal lead. Sadly, we gave the ball away and the opponents managed to hit a shot from the edge of the area into the extreme right of the goal.  Fortunately we were able to combat this minor affliction and get another to make it Four goals to one as we approached half time.  The oppononents had the bit between their teeth and they were pressing and were challenging each ball and they picked up a loose ball and hit a shot which was saved then they buried the rebound in the top corner.

HALF TIME:

FC BRITANICO 2 - 4 FC TWENTY

We were quite pleased to be leading considering we had no substitutes and the other team seemed to have press ganged the population of a provincial town to join their ranks. They were rolling their subs on and off at five minute intervals. This gave them freshness and youth, as their squad looked considerably less grizzled and world weary than ours.

The second half continued in much the same vein as the first half with FC Twenty controlling the game but the other team won several corners and had a fair few shots on and off target. In an impressive second half FC Twenty managed to add Five more goals to the four in the first half. Wallop! FC Twenty did however concede two goals in slightly unfortunate but different fashions. The FC Britanico had decided to come out of goal a bit as they were chasing the game, he wanted a bit of the action and so he managed to get in on it. He hit a speculative effort goalwards and it looked to be going out tamely for a goal kick but however an FC Twenty defender thought it had some danger and tried to clear it but managed to send it goalwards and into the back of the net. The other FC Britanico goal was more conventional where they passed into a goal scoring opportunity in the centre of the goal area and hit a shot goalward which the FC Twenty blocked with one leg but it unfortunately hit his other leg and it had enough power remained to crawl over the line. Hmm. The upside was FC Twenty had scored 5 screamers which were results of good passing, counter attacking or accurate shooting. Overall a cracking performance and a good start to the latest league campaign.

FULL TIME:

FC BRITANICO 4 - 9 FC TWENTY
Three points in the bag.