Well it was certainly an ominous weekend to be playing Sherbrooke with the latest Robin Hood adventure being released. I was on the lookout for a band of merry men, Maid Marion, the cruel Sherriff of Nottingham, even the odd stray arrow, but all was silent at the ground until play began. I took an apple just in case, but ended up eating it!
Rovers started with Luke in goals, Diego sweeping, Johnny & Daniel as twin Central Defenders, James & Steven as right & left wing backs respectively, Chris, Drew & Connor in Midfield, with Ricky & Lucas up forward.
The game started out at a cracking pace with the ball being rebounded out of each defense with good quality passes and strong pressure leading to several shots at goal by both sides but all were well wide. Sherbrooke had a couple of good chances but Luke was there to save, and all the defense were shutting down their men not allowing any time to line up a quality shot.
The game was slowly opening up and a good ball to Lucas allowed him to get around his man and with only the short keeper to beat, his shot also beat the cross-bar.
Soon after Lucas ran onto a rebound and from 20 metres, his shot was destined for the top right hand corner of the goal, only to see their keeper tip the ball over the bar! Very unlucky, as the shot was spot on. With half time fast approaching Sherbrooke played a long ball, which was deemed offside by the linesman, however the referee allowed play to continue. An attempted clearance was miss-timed and the ball sailed just over Luke’s outstretched hand and into the net for an own goal. This was a real arrow to the heart as the whistle sounded for half-time.
Half-time score: Sherbrooke 1 : Rovers 0
Michael came on for Chris who had copped an elbow to the ribs. Both sides were intent on getting the next goal and a poor pass by Sherbrooke allowed Ricky to intercept and put the ball past the keeper to level up. The Sherriff was not happy and threatened to put his defenders into stocks!!
The game opened up even more as some good passing by Sherbrooke put our defense under pressure with a lack of talking evident. We managed to keep them out for about 15 minutes but then 3 good passes allowed Sherbrooke to shoot truly. I believe the boys name was Archer! No wonder he was such a good shot.
The ball was travelling from end to end and both sides had their chances. Drew made a good run down the right but his shot was a bit soft and the keeper was able to shield the goals. Shortly after this Sherbrooke disabled our defense with a good joust forwards as the defence fell apart or at least fell over. This time it was Bowman who shot truly to put the game beyond doubt.
With so many Merry Men on their side it was no wonder Sherbrooke were hard to beat. Pity there is not a good Holy War on at the moment that we could all send them away to, to even up the competition!! All the Rovers boys were trying hard but we just did not have the intensity today.
Scores at full-time: Sherbrooke 3 : Rovers 1
ROVERS – Definitely room for improvement boys, let’s lift the intensity for the game next week.
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