The Green Team played Irish Rover FC, a medium skilled team, with one or two strong players who had the potential to cause problems. IRFC took a 1-0 lead, off a dodge call from the referee. Team yellow (referees), granted IRFC an indirect free kick, which was called because of a reverse directed clearance from Fabio, which Shane handled. The Green team cleared their lines, but the ball fell to one of their players who made an underpowered shot, that the wind carried into the net. Unfortunate, but that is soccer.

IRFC had only a few chances, but the Green team was easily the better side. Jasper had a great opportunity to level, only for the keeper to make a bumbling save. Chris Keel scored, but was disallowed due to an offside. Dick and Chris were more than a handful for the IRFC defense and were unlucky not to get on the score sheet.

Second half, the Green team controlled the game, with Dick scoring a good goal to level the game. He picked the ball up, after a good pass from Adam, turned the player and struck nicely into the left hand side. We pressed forward, missing a few more opportunities, which should have won us the game by 3 or 4, but the end result was 1 – 1. All in all, the Green team was the better team, but it was not meant to be their winning day. Stephen said that it was a great, committed performance from the players!

Every player played well, especially Antonio in Center midfield, who was lively, and dangerous throughout the game. On the whole, every player scored high marks in the coach’s book, with Antonio being the man of the match.