Football match 08/09/02
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Chester, you played well. I am more glad to see that both you and Jay maintained your pace in the second half, hanging on and playing the whole game.
Remember that maintaining your pace is very important. No point running everywhere for the first 20 minutes and walking in the remaining 70 minutes. 
Like what I told the defenders during half time, don't waste your energy committing too early, follow your player, watch him make that mistake then move in. If not, unless you are 90% confident getting the ball, then go in. Once you follow a player, he is shadowed from performing and opportunities.
Honestly speaking, I was shagged after playing 15 minutes into the second half. Laid off for too long (about 2 to 3 months?). My body is aching quite terribly now. After I started feeling tired, I dropped back more in the central position and did not move up unneccessarily. Must say that central mid in the 5-3-2 formation is quite xiong....quite lost too
!! Nevertheless, the feeling was FANTASTIC being back in action!! 
When I first reached the field with Alvin, the feeling of putting on the boots and playing the ball on the field was indescribable....... 
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hey guys,
juz a little observation that i've made from our last game.
i think our weakness lies in the way we defend.i'm not juz talking about our defenders but the team as a whole.we need to be tighter n safer at the back.on a couple of occasions,we r caught holding the ball too long in our defensive third n this can b very dangerous if we r playing against teams wif fast attacking players.under pressure its better to whack the ball out even if we have to give away corners.
in view that our keeper is not that tall we nid to head those high balls away first time instead of letting the ball bounce n waiting for it to land at our feet.actually i'm quite excited at the prospect of jason n jeremy playing the centre back roles coz both have got good height n can pluck out those balls pumped high into our defensive third. plus charles sweeping behind these 2,i think we will have a solid back 3.
on the topic of fitness,i felt that there is not much off-ball running but too much on-ball running. i think all of u would agree that whenever we have the ball at our feet, there isn't much choices to pass to. for defenders,it's best to release the ball early instead of trying to run the ball out of defence. we r all definitely no lucio or roberto carlos. we also made a mistake in not playing "keep-ball" n slowing down the pace of the game when we were 2 goals up.we got carried away in attack instead of defending our lead. once we lost steam,opponents was all over us.
hope i've not offended anyone wif these comments coz i'm not targeting anybody in particular.we r definitely improving wif every game n i hope we can maintain this team for years to come.i noe of quite a no. of teams who stuck together for years n have now made a name for themselves. hopefully we can too?
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Khairul, comments like yours are always appreciated and do continue giving them. A couple of players, including myself, are playing out of our "childhood" positions and we certainly need all the guidance we can get. I personally will, and is trying hard to improve on my fitness and off-ball running. Hopefully, I can get into the Striker mode fast enough to avoid being the dead weight in the team. I would not mind playing in other positions if the manager so desires.Originally posted by kai28:hey guys,
juz a little observation that i've made from our last game.
i think our weakness lies in the way we defend.i'm not juz talking about our defenders but the team as a whole.we need to be tighter n safer at the back.on a couple of occasions,we r caught holding the ball too long in our defensive third n this can b very dangerous if we r playing against teams wif fast attacking players.under pressure its better to whack the ball out even if we have to give away corners.
in view that our keeper is not that tall we nid to head those high balls away first time instead of letting the ball bounce n waiting for it to land at our feet.actually i'm quite excited at the prospect of jason n jeremy playing the centre back roles coz both have got good height n can pluck out those balls pumped high into our defensive third. plus charles sweeping behind these 2,i think we will have a solid back 3.
on the topic of fitness,i felt that there is not much off-ball running but too much on-ball running. i think all of u would agree that whenever we have the ball at our feet, there isn't much choices to pass to. for defenders,it's best to release the ball early instead of trying to run the ball out of defence. we r all definitely no lucio or roberto carlos. we also made a mistake in not playing "keep-ball" n slowing down the pace of the game when we were 2 goals up.we got carried away in attack instead of defending our lead. once we lost steam,opponents was all over us.
hope i've not offended anyone wif these comments coz i'm not targeting anybody in particular.we r definitely improving wif every game n i hope we can maintain this team for years to come.i noe of quite a no. of teams who stuck together for years n have now made a name for themselves. hopefully we can too?
adios.......
Most importantly, I, like so many of you had highlighted, have enjoyed playing for this team. -
Khairul,
Good observations. I believe we will sort all those out as we play more games. As the games keep coming, we'll see improvements in our fitness, understanding, positioning, etc...
It might take some time, but I'm sure we'll get there and have fun along the way...