Orangemen vs Allianza 30 March 2014

The last game of March and Spring hasn’t fully materialized.  The game was 55 and raining...it fact it rained the whole game.  With fog rolling in and out.  It was getting colder with the rain and even the Standard Poodle, or Airedale looking dog on the sidelines wasn’t having any fun.  Since Mooch was injured and couldn’t play, he stood soaking on the sidelines and didn’t wait long into the second half before departing.  Kendall added the missing notes to finish this game report.

Of course after a week of recruiting we were still short handing at the game.  This didn’t hurt Mooch financially since it was an away game.  As prearranged Alianza provided us 2 players...Deron and Pablo.

Gorge and Richard came to the match and we had a special appearance from Jose back from his groin injury.  Gene was in the net with Jose and John H on defense and Deron sweeping. Karl and Alfredo right and left backs with Gorge and Richard in central mid leaving Jermaine and Kendall up top to round out the side.  Pablo would join in midfield.

Before Mooch left Jermaine scored a wonderful goal after running onto an assist coming from  Kendall’s head.  Jermaine pushed the ball forward, used his speed to run onto it out pacing his defender with each stride.  He moved to the left, waited for the keeper to close the distance and scored a wonderful strike past the keeper who couldn’t do much.

Then Kendal scored off an assist from Jemaine.  Kendall took the ball to the left and used his patented left for to strike the ball hard across the keeper into the left side netting.  No fights against Alianza last night...which was of great credit to Deron and our team for keeping our cool.  The ref also had a roll to play keeping the piece with making decent calls.

Kendall fills in the rest

Kendall continued to pressure Alianza' s fullback and midfielders angry with himself for not taking better advantage of lovely lofted passes from B. counter attacking soccer continued throughout the second half. Gene continued to make very nice saves. Note: the referee was a very good one. He stayed out of the way but was close enough to make good calls. Alianza made a couple questionable fouls on our players but everyone kept their cool. Alianza used their superior youth up front to take a slim advantage for the win 5-4. MAGICALLY it stopped raining at the end of the game. Fun had by all. I even stopped in the parking lot to have one beer with my old team.

Nice job Orangemen...but we have to work on our number this week.