Scrimmage vs U13's Friday 12/5

We played 10v10 today since we were short on players.  We played awesome.  Brownie was solid at the back and kept possession of the ball for us.  We tracked each possession that she had when she had time to see how many times she kept the ball.  I think that because she was conscious of us keeping track she did a much better job of maintaining possession of the ball for us and did not let her mind wander.  

Becks played left back for us and offensively she was fantastic.  She made a number of great entry passes to the forwards, outside mid, and attacking mid as well as a number of crosses.  The more she received the ball the more comfortable she became attacking from that position.  If she begins to tackle and play more physical it will be a hug asset to the team to have her play in that position.

Jazzy moved back into the center mid today and played our defensive mid position.  Her timing and spacing was much improved from a month ago and she only turned into pressure twice.  She had one of the plays of the game with a no look outside of the foot flick pass while dribbling towards the left to set up Kari on the right. 

Our attacking triangle with Gaffer and Greely up top with Magic underneath continues to build and create problems.  They are just beginning to read each others runs and create space for each other instead of running individually.  Magic had a great goal when she was fed through on the right side of the box, did a Cristiano Ronaldo Cruyff to beat her defender and slotted the ball inside the near post for her finish.  She is very calm in the box.

On a day where everyone played well, Kari was our best player today.  She caused all kinds of problems on the right side.  Her reading of which space to run into was fantastic.  She beat players 1v1 and was looking to score.  She hit the post with one of her shots and scored on two other shots.  If she begins to score on a regular basis we will have a very dynamic attack this year.

I hope we can play as well as we did today in a week versus the 16 Whites when we will be under higher pressure and we will be playing 11v11.