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Old 06-29-2011, 01:38 PM   #356
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
October Update

-- October looks like a pretty light month for us since we're out of the league cup and johnstone's paint trophy already. We'll enter the FA Cup at the end of the month, probably won't play in it until November.

-- Constantino wins the league 2 player of the month award! Harsanyi is 2nd.

-- Mickael Colin wins the League 2 young player of the month award!

-- The board is delighted at my leadership, dominating league 2 remains a highlight, losing Giuseppe Sole is the downside... yeah ok i'm fine with that.

-- We lost $123k last month, that's quite a bit.


October 3rd, 2015

Luton(6-4-1, 4th) @ Woking(7-3-1, 1st)


We're currently 2 points ahead of Luton. Most of our recent matches have been against bottom feeders, so this could be a good test of where we are. We're super slim 6:4 favorites, they're 13:8. We're 0-2-1 lifetime against them, tying twice last season, the loss coming 5 years ago in the FA Trophy.


GK: Lynch
D: Nikolaou/Smith/V Taylor/Ogogo
MC: Ferry/Middleton
AM: Colin/N'Guessan
FC: Harsanyi/Constantino

We'll attack today.

6': First shot of the match is a shot from about 20 yards out from Harsanyi that sails a bit wide.

15': They get it ahead to striker Ball, he draws Taylor a bit away from center, a pass back, then a great rhrough ball and Luton has midfielder White in the 6 yard box all of a sudden, he is at a real tough angle but he puts it near post past Lynch and we trail. 0-1

21': After a throwin the ball comes foward to middleton, instead of putting in a through ball he blasts a shot from about 20-25 yards out. The keeper is there but can't hold on, the ball squirts away from him. contantino is paying attention, sprints to the ball and puts it in the net to tie it up! 1-1

31': Free kick for Luton from 30 yards out, they fire a shot around the wall and Lynch has to make a diving save... "brilliant save by Lynch" says the commentary. Whew.

33': Some buildup in the middle between Ferry and middleton and Constantino... Middleton plays a ball into the right side of the area, N'Guessan is running hard to get to it, he strikes it, keeper has to dive but is able to push it away.

40': Luton are playing a 4-2-1-2-1 formation with two defensive midfidlers and a MC... the middle is extremely clogged up. I instruct our guys to "exploit the flanks" and "play wider" to try to drag some defenders out.

HALF: Its been fairly exciting, we have 6 shots, 3 are on target. They have 3 shots with just 2 on target. We've got the possession edge 57/43 but I've seen a lot of play in the midfield where we just are passing the ball around hoping they make a mistake. Hopefully the getting out wide order will help open things up a little.

62': Boring so far, we've seen one highlight, a free kick cleared right out.

63': Harsanyi with the ball in the penalty area, not quite sure how he got there... but he puts a shot from close range well wide, that was weird.

73': We earn a corner... Smith takes it, sends it long, we get a head to it but its over the bar.

75': Upson in for Middleton, Dan Taylor in for Colin, Harsanyi to AML.

78': Yellow for Nikolaou

80': Constantino rushes down the right side, crosses into the area, Taylor heads it... over.

82': Yellow for defender Grovers for tackling Harsanyi just outside the area. Smith shoots the free kick off the wall. We control but they clear relatively easy.

87': Luton wins a ball in midfield, they try a backpass towards a defender but it goes straight to Constantino... the defense is not in the best position, Constantino turns and finds Upson, its not the easiest shot in the world, its from about 20 yards out, but he strikes it clean and buries it in the right side of the net!!!! 2-1

89': A quick counter, N'guessan burns his man down the right side, places a perfect pass to a sprinting Constantino who takes a couple more steps in the area and fires a shot past the keeper! 3-1

90': Ogogo goes down shortly after kickoff and is hurt. I sub in Alcock and hope its not serious.

Woking 3 : 1 Luton

Man of the Match: Constantino (9.2)
Goals: Constantino 2, Upson 1 (7.3)
Assists: Constantino, N'Guessan (7.8), Ferry(7.5)
Notables: Lynch (7.5), Ogogo (7.5), Nikolaou (7.2), V. Taylor (7.3), Smith (7.0), Middleton (7.1)

We started to have a lot of success putting pressure on their defense in the finl 15 minutes or so and were able to finally convert it into two quick goals at the end to secure the win.
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