Nomads Game 1 vs SC Del Sol (AZ)

We played at an elementary school for this game and this was the only field.  The dimensions were very small.  The sidelines were 5 yards away from the 18 yard box and the field was maybe . . . maybe 100 yards long.  It was a perfect field for 9v9.  11v11 not so much.  And it was really bumpy and there was a baseball infield that took over one of the corners.

The girls were excited for the game and we had lots of energy in the warm up.  The whistle blew to start the game and Del Sol played the ball back to their mids and they booted it upfield.  The ball went to one of our central defenders who miss hit the clear and it went right to their forward.  Both our central defenders backed off her and she took a shot from 25 yards out that AJ dove for, maybe could have held onto, and their forward continued her run and hammered in the rebound.  

24 seconds in we were down 0-1. Uh Oh?  Nope.

After that SC Del Sol did not get another shot and we opened up the flood gate of chances . . . The only issue was that none of our chances were going in.  Here are our notes from the game:

1 min: Del Sol Goal off of missed clear and rebound
3 min: Kenzie cross to Carly, header just over bar
4 min: Carly cross just misses
12 min: Gaffer shot from Sophie cross
14 min: Sophie catches the goalie out of position on a counter, but it hits the outside of the post and goes wide
16 min: Gaffer cross bounces around in front of goal
19 min: Gaffer misses open goal
19 min: Gaffer to poke, great save for corner
20 min: Sophie header from corner saved
24 min: Sizzle shot saved
26 min: Sizzle gets open off of flip throw saved
26 min: Kenzie break away saved

Half time 

At half time all we could say was keep doing what you are doing.  We were getting 3-4 runners in the box every time a cross came in.  We were super dangerous.  Just be composed in front of goal.

31 min: Corner bounces around in front of the goal
33 min: Gaffer gets a break away and hits the post.  The ball rebounds back off her face and into the net for a goal!  Finally!
35 min: Becks shot off of flip throw
37 min: Sophie gets played through on a counter attack for a break away and hits the post
41 min (3 chances): Taz hits the cross bar followed by Kenzie hitting the cross bar and the 3rd shot went wide
43 min: Becks free kick saved
50 min: Taz shot from Lydia pass
51 min: Gaffer volley just over
54 min: Jordy shot
59 min (2 chances): Gaffer break away saved, Kenzie misses near post on open net rebound. 

Game over.

We had 24 high quality scoring chances and scored 1 goal.  They had 1 shot and had 1 goal.  Soccer is not fair.  I know another couple of our shots hit the post but we were not able to keep up with all the chances.  Did the nets have plexie glass in front of them?  We were almost averaging a high quality scoring chance once every two minutes.  That is incredible.  The girls did everything right but the ball just would not go in.

If we score a usual percentage of the high quality chances we created we should have won 5-1 easily.  If we played on a good field we would have beat this team 7-0, but that darn ball just would not go in the net for us today.  

Hopefully the ball will go in for us in our next game vs Nomads.