LEAGUE ROUND 14
July Fourth 2-1 nakompathom fc
July Fourth 118.8 3-5-2 V, then 30 mins 3-1-4-2, then 50 mins 3-1 -2-3W-1 - nakompathom 114.5 3W-1-3W-1-2
This game was just as big as Tomorrows show down between ourselves and Batigo United, nakompathom have emerged as outsiders to win the title by being just 2 points off the top of the league at midway point of the season and not surprisingly they showed us why they are not far behind in the table because we struggled against them, nakompathom were creating the early chances and nearly took the lead immediately, so we had to change our shape by bring our wingers back to try an boss the midfield, we began to create chances with Stuart and Michu presenting a chance to score but failed to convert, nakompathom against the run of play finally took the lead early in the second half when Ramdani breaking behind our defence and passing to Gillet to score for an easy goal, we then changed our formation to the formation we beat Benca with and brought on Miku with Mensah and Kareski to breathe some fresh legs into our midfield and pushed Vestergaard and O'Sullivan back up to wingers, this paid off... Just, Mensah had a free-kick but it bounced off the way for a corner and it was wasted, O'Sullivan then got the ball, beat a defender and ran into the box and smashed it past the keeper for our equaliser, July Fourth were now the ones applying the pressure for the winner and after Miku and Mensah both had a shot blocked, eventually Papaleo on recieved the long ball and ran with it and chipped it over the keeper and got us back in front, we then had 10 minutes to withstand a nakomphatom attack firstly Mahood shot from 25 meters to be blocked by Hogan and a nakomphatom corner was caught by Knight and a last minute Rosengren attack was cut out by Hogan.
Goals: Gillet (48) O'Sullivan (64) Papaleo (80) MOTM: Vestergaard.
Team Talk: That was a very fortunate win for us here as our opponents should of deserved at least a draw since they were the better team in this contest and we got out of jail to be fair, a loss here would of actually seen us drop to 3rd in the league and would of been 3 points behind Batigo going into that massive game against Batigo tomorrow, but we are level on points with Batigo but we have inferior goal difference by 4 goals. I feel that nothing but a win against Batigo tomorrow will be enough to send us towards winning another league title. A draw tomorrow wouldn't be a disaster since we are the away team and maintaining status quo would not be too bad and it would be pressure on Batigo to try and keep ahead of us in the race, but if we lose tomorrow against Batigo then it will put Batigo in a position in where it would be their league to lose. Just like I re-arranged this game by putting KO back by 6 1/2 hours due to the Benca cup tie and allow by squad sometime to regain condition, Batigo United have used their option to re-arrange KO time in our clash and they set it at 3.40pm UK, thats normally around our window for our home games so we are more than happy with it.