The team played in a college showcase in Fort Wayne last weekend. I would have preferred we never went to the event - the games came after we hadnt practiced for 2 weeks and that certainly wasn’t optimal. Turns out the field wasn’t full-sized (it was full width but not full length) and the games were about 25 minute halfs (not 40). Just a waste of time in some ways - I refuse to believe there is a college coach out there who is watching any of the U16 or U17 teams playing there.
Game 1 - we won 3-1. We looked sloppy doing it but slowly just overpowered this team from Cleveland.
Game 2 - we lost 4-2. We were down 4-0 at the half; I’ve never seen this team play so poorly. I’ve never seen Matthew play so poorly - he was awful, worse than bad, and three of those goals were him missing a tackle and letting a guy have a wide open shot on goal. Ugly. I was dreading the ride home (we commuted instead of staying the night) but thankfully Matthew was in full agreement about how bad he played.
Game 3 won 4-1. We overpowered this team from Cincinnati - we were in full let’s experiment mode in the seond half. I had asked the coach if he was going to use these games to see people in different positions - pointed out to him that Matthew and Austin have played a ton of time in the midfield and he hasn’t seen that. So Matthew plays in the midfield most of this game - had a few chances to score but didn’t convert. Thought he played about 1000% better than Saturday night so that was a good thing.
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