FC Bristbury (English Team)

[John Naish]

FC Bristbury win the Champions League!

Today we kicked off the Champions League final at 16.51 BST (British Summer Time) against Madridista.

It was a tough start to the match with a lot of competition for possession, but at 30 minutes in, an excellent assist by Michalis Labrou gave us the first real chance on goal which Clint Jarvis hammered home to give FC Bristbury the lead 0-1! It continued as a pretty close match with neither side giving much away for the rest of the first half - credit especially to Johnny Wheeler and Melvin van Loon in defence!

Madridista kicked off the second half and had obviously had harsh words at half time for within 6 minutes they had scored the equaliser! In the next 9 minutes 3 corners were given away to FC Bristbury and one Free kick, W Miglioranzi from the other team picking up a yellow card in the process. On the third corner Johnny Wheeler gave an excellent cross, which Gleibson Leite managed to get a head to, giving FC Bristbury the lead once more 2-1.

From this point on things went from bad to worse for Madridista - within 7 minutes of FC Bristbury regaining the lead C Gun had picked up a yellow - within 8 it had turned to red! The freekick from his second yellow gave Leandro Viera the perfect opportunity to increase the lead to 3-1, which he did expertly.

By this point Madridista were in despair - how could they be losing to a team so much lower in quality than them? So they sent on a substitution - he didn't help. And by the time Anoure Okoli came on for FC Britbury the game was long over, we had won!



Man of the match went to Clint Jarvis - the man who gave the team the hope they needed to finish the job:



We used 4-4-2 with red arrows on strikers and MR and ML. Defensive mentality, mixed passing, hard tackling, zonal marking, counter on, own half pressing:



Hope you enjoyed my report - sorry if it was too long!

League

The League looks like it will go down to the wire: