Winter League Game Week #5 - vs Durbanville (Mens 2s)

Opponents: Durbanville

Venue: Mutual

Time: 13h30

Date: 19 May 2012

The 2s came into this game knowing they were gonna have a tough day against the recently relegated Durabnville 1s. This was apparent from early on as Durbanville showed their superiority and made several easy circle entries before grabbing the opening goal of the game. 

Mutual had a few half chances on the other end but Durbanville continued to find their way into the circle with ease (Bastick would know about that). Durbanville added two more soft goals before Mutual could reply. Through a good counter, Ninja was put through one on one with the keeper and slotted his finish, cool as a cucumber. WHAT!? Ninja scored! Yes I know its unbelievable, but its clearly more believable than Piles scoring #TellHim.

Even with our hopes slight boosted through Ninja’s goal, Durbanville quickly crushed those hopes and added a fourth. But low and behold Ninja had another opportunity to score and everyone was going “lighting doesn’t strike twice” but Ninja defied everyone and scored a delicate pop over the keeper to make it 4 – 2. This is how the half ended.

After some motivational words at the break we came up fired up to attempt a comeback however Durbanville were a couple steps ahead of us and added their 5^th of the game very quickly. From this point Durbanville began to push forward and look to truly finish the game off. Mutual began to defend frantically and utilise the counter attack. 

This eventually paid off as Vis added a third for the Green and Blue but once again Durbanville found a hole in our leaky defence and added a 6^th. There was still plenty of time left in the game and Vis gave us some more belief as he added his 2^nd and our 4^th to put the game into our reach. Then came the big moment after some debateable keeping from Durbanville, Mutual were awarded a p-flick. Patches was nominated (Tosser - Coach fail - Just Saying) to take it......probably the most vital flick of his life so far.....which he duffed and the keeper saved easily #Robben. This seemed to completely kill off our hopes and the game ended 6 – 4 to Durbanville.

Result: Mutual 4 – 6 Durbanville 

Our defence is clearly our Achilles Heel and needs plenty of work for another tough game against Pinelands A this coming weekend. (Tosser - Let me just state for the record, Stay away from the Thorough Bred 3s defence)

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