vs Dongen (6th)
G: Bartek Pakiela
D: Ertunc Yildirim/Robin Hoekstra/Patrick Ozinga/Hennos Asmalash
MC: Max Oostenrijk/Pascal Hettinga
AMLR: Moreno Doekhi/Achmed Ahahaoui
ST: Derk Schut/Gokhan Pala
6 -
Oostenrijk shorts the corner to
Hoekstra's head for the aerial cross. The keeper terribly misjudges his leap, the ball falling on to
Ozinga's chest and allowing him to literally walk in the score. Hilarious.
1-0
33 - I love it when teams try to double up on
Doekhi. It never works. His cross does go awry, dropping into the keeper's hands, but he drops it. It's just a matter of who gets there first of our strikers. Turns out to be
Schut. Rough day for the opposing goalie
2-0
35 -
Schut recovers his own cleared corner and crosses to open space in the box where no one but
Ahahaoui is even close. Thunder kick and the rout is on.
3-0
49 -
Hettinga pops a pretty ball ahead of
Pala and the cross is just as crisply beautiful,
Schut splitting the two defenders to double his tally.
4-0
Lovely.
vs Zwaluwen (7th)
G: Bartek Pakiela
D: Brian-Paul Tesselaar/Bastin Verweij/Patrick Ozinga/Hennos Asmalash
MC: Rodi de Boer/Pascal Hettinga
AMLR: Moreno Doekhi/Achmed Ahahaoui
ST: Derk Schut/Gokhan Pala
17 - We double-team a guy, have coverage on the shooter, and it still gets through? Damn.
0-1
20 -
Ahahaoui takes the long pass and runs down the right side, two defenders draped all over him. He's able to get the cross off, however. Other defenders are worried about our strikers, and absolutely no one is covering
Doekhi, allowing him to open shot score his first Kampong goal!!!
1-1
32 -
Asmalash makes an incredible interception, starting a sequence of passes that caps in
Hettinga popping a ball into space for
Pala to snag, race into the box, and fire in the go-ahead score. I'm really impressed by Pascal's growing comfort in
Amar Sedjic's old Advanced Playmaker role.
2-1
43 - Our backline has been ass today
2-2
53 -
Oosterom is in for
Ozinga and
Schut heads off to a striker switch with
Prins as the new DF.
63 - Are you f**Y(&ng serious right now?
2-3
70 -
Doekhi makes an amazing steal deep in their half, and quickly bombs it to
Prins in the box. They can't get back quick enough, allowing our boy to settle down and set his shot. Equalized.
3-3
90 -
De Boer absolutely hammers the ball down the middle of the pitch and
Pala is able to fight through two defenders to get the shot off. Keeper comes out and pushes it away, but doesn't get back towards the net. In comes
Prins to SLAM HIS SECOND GOAL OF THE GAME!!!
4-3
8.6 showing off the bench for
Hedzer Prins, 8.4 for
Gokhan Pala, 8.2 for
Moreno Doehki, but the PotM ball goes to
Pascal Hettinga's 8.7 as the defense improved *just* enough in the second half to steal the comeback victory.
vs Zaamlaag (Dutch Cup Second Round)
G: Bartek Pakiela
D: Ertunc Yildirim/Robin Hoekstra/Sefa Kurt/Hennos Asmalash
MC: Max Oostenrijk/Eren Albayrak
AMLR: Siebren Visscher/Hedzer Prins
ST: Rico Leocadio/Joreilly Chirino
Do I care about the Cup, which we secured a first round bye out of? Honestly, no. I want to move on up.
Eren Albayrak is a youth pull from last year, but exhaustion and suspensions have forced us to give him his first action. Also appearing for the first time is
Siebren Visscher, who took this long because uh,
Moreno Doekhi is frigging amazing, and
Achmed Ahahaoui will play forever.
We switch to our 4-1-5 at the half,
Albaryak left as the lone MC defending while
Ahahaoui is in at AMC. I'm annoyed at
Prins - he's shot happy after his heroics last game and is blowing it. We frankly have played badly all half, though, so it's not just him.
54 -
Leocadio is yanked for
Pala. Boy has the Cape Verdean kid been a huge, huge disappointment.
58 -
Prins finally launches a decent header shot.. only to rattle off the crossbar.
61 -
Visscher cannons a free kick into the box and
Chirino out-jumps everyone to knock in the header for his first score of the year!!!
1-0
66 -
Chirino wins the header on
Pakiela's goal kick, knocking it down and taking possession. Kickback to
Asmalash and return pass. Feed into the box to
Prins and a shot *finally* goes in amidst stupid cries of offsides
2-0
By the end of the game, all 90 minute starters save our keeper netted a 7 or better, with
Achmed Ahahaoui pulling a 7.0 sub duty.
Joreilly Chirino takes all the plaudits and the game ball with his 8.5, looking like last season's hot streak version.
No cash for the win. What a gyp.
At least we're in temporarily in 2nd place in the league (3rd place team has a game in hand).