Upper 90 North Red (11/24/19)
A great battle this weekend against an extremely physical side in Upper 90. We talked about how every game this session will be similar in that sense since we’ll be going up against a lot of older teams. However, I’m very happy with how we battled and how players have been stepping up with such a big part of our squad out.
We got off to a flying start and we seem to have improved our focus and the way we come out in the start of matches. Q was fantastic in this match and showed great composure on the dribble to beat a couple players and then fake a shot to get past a third one before hammering her finish home off the bar. I felt that we also did a better job of pressuring higher up the field and anticipating where passes were going to go from their goalkeeper and defenders.
I felt that we created enough good chances to tie and even win this game, but that we could have certainly helped our forwards out even more; our midfielders, especially the attacking