Announcement
DEA dropped its home opener against Andover 2-1 . DEA saw everyone of its players at this game, which was probably their demise as they never got into a rhythm.
From the Captain:
A game of poor flow and missed opportunities. Having 21 players to rotate in certainly presented several challenges, and we never seemed to get any consistency of play. There were some good connections between DEA players, some great give and go’s allowed for a one on one with the goalie, but no conversion. The Andover keeper played excellent between the posts, but we never truly challenged him. After going down 2-0 at the half, we thought we could wear them down, that didn’t happen until the last 15 minutes of the game when DEA got better organized and clearly dominated play which resulted in a goal line cross from Dave Partridge to Jim McCall who cracked a header into the upper left corner of the goal. With heavy pressure time ran out on the opportunity to get the tying goal back. Lesson learned moving on to the next game.Steve Bicknell had this to say: "WE SUCKED!!!"
Scott Vaughn added: "We stunk up the joint!"
Dave Partridge:
"21 individuals don't play as well as 1 team. That's it in a nutshell.
The last ten minutes were decent, we played together as a team, kept
the ball going forward, nice cross and header for a goal. Before that,
a lot of decent individual efforts, but that's what they were, very little
working together, big gaps in the field as people didn't come back or
move forward as a team. Too many subs certainly had some effect,
keeping us from establishing a rhythm, but that's not all of it. Discipline
and focus, not lunging at the ball or over committing, keeping track of
the play and moving in support, just generally team play is what was lacking."
We are still awaiting a more formal write-up on the game.
Clearly a disappointing result for DEA however. Next Sunday DEA travels to Griffin Field to take on the always tough Windham team. DEA needs to bring their "A" game to this one.
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