Season 43

[July Fourth]

LEAGUE ROUND 3 - IT'S A FUNNY OLD GAME

July Fourth 5-1 intemelia fc

July Fourth 129.2 - intemelia 119.4
July Fourth 3W-5-2 V then 3N-1-4-2 then dandelion and the 3N-4-1-2 - intemelia asymmetric 4-1-4-1

We were right about intemelia's interesting defensive mentality and we setup to attack the flanks and switched tactics 3 times to try and find a sweet spot past the defence but to be fair to intemelia they gave themselves their best chance of winning against us. July Fourth struggled to find their game to begin with as we could not get forward and intemelia had the best of the early exchanges, we switched to a more relaxed style of 3-1-4-2 before deciding to move Miku to AMC and when we switched to the dandelion they found a way through us and scored at the beginning of the second half when Gjerde Moen got past the defence and squared off for Minda, we immediately switched to 3-4-1-2 and threw Diamond on the field, this is when the game swung our way, Pietropaolo found a way through but a challenge Ilchev ended up winning us a penalty in which the new Papaleo despatched to put us level, the next attack and Pietropaolo this time made it through and chipped it over the keeper for 2-1. Petersen went for a long range effort and Alvarez could not keep it out despite getting a touch on it and July Fourth were now in control... Our next 2 goals both came from corners the first one Petersen crossed in for Beckett to header in and the other came after Petersen's free-kick was saved over the bar and Petersen's corner came in and it was 5-1. A late Papaleo shot was blocked by Gjerde Moen.

Goals: Minda (50) Papaleo (57 PEN) Pietropaolo (61) Petersen (65) Beckett (69,87) MOTM: Beckett - 1pt
Manager Points: Beckett 3, Petersen 2,Pietropaolo 1.
Standings: Beckett 8,Ramirez 7, Petersen 6,Calavicci 4,Malik 3,Miku 3,Pietropaolo 3,Watson 3.

Team Talk: Well I was expecting it to be tricky with the unusual tactics that worked well for our opponents for around the first hour, but once we switched to 3N-4-1-2 (which seems to be our best formation now) we found our game and soon started knocking in the goals to get the win. Tomorrow we play away at Sz FC in which is the first of 3 meetings within 4 days.