MR U18 NL Silver 2024/2025 (Market Road League) - EFA SL Gold

A sloppy start from our silver team allowed the opposition to get two goals in two minutes.
We then created some good chances, but all the shots were going towards the iron of the goal or their keeper would save them.

Then in a good transition from the opposition, tey made the 3-0.

In the second half, we did some re-adjustments, and we started well, we moved into a 1-2-2-2 defending which caused some problems to our Sout London team. We created several chances, shot after shot, however, the ball was "stubborn" and was either hitting the posts, crossbar or saved bye their goalie.  Then, the proverb of who doesn't score is closer to conceed, happened again. They made the 4-0. We move into a floating 1-3-1-2/1-1-3-2, but the lack of understanding of movements without the ball, when to drive or when to pass, didn't help us. Therefore, we ended up conceding two more.

Credit to the South London, that were clinical, even though they still have a lot to improve as they are still learning the process of how to play 7v7, they, overall, performed better than us, and deserved the 3 points.

Regarding our Silver team, it was a heavy defeat. As not everything during the game was bad. The final score is to harsh for what the match was. Maybe a 6-4 or 6-5 would be the result that would make more sense, for what happened on the pitch. Nevertheless, is to highlight, that we had a few debuts on the team, too, who have little time of training with us, therefore, they still need to understand how to play 7v7, and understand our style of play.

I don't have any doubts the team will come up stronger in the next match (as long they all come to training).