FC Denver suffered their first defeat of the season against Sefton FC. The game started slowly for both teams, with Sefton eventually gaining the upper hand by going 1-0 up. Green were all sorts and unable to find any rhythm in the game until the equalizer came, scored when Cris Pomager crossed, Chris Keel applied enough pressure on the backline, with the ball deflecting of  Sefton’s defender’s head into the goal. However, Sefton soon regained momentum and scored a second, after a collision between Mike Topey and Sefton’s striker, allowed Sefton to score. Afterwards, Green came back, and started to take control of the midfield, and some neat play allowed Antonio Neto to strike a rasping shot, which was goal bound, only for Sefton’s keeper to somehow get a finger tip and make a spectacular save to thwart the move. Green continued pressing, with several more plays, but that elusive goal could not be had.

At the start of the second half, Green began to fight, with Antonio and Jeremy Spingath, pushing Sefton back, fighting for every ball, freeing up Adam Morrell, causing major problems for Sefton. After 15 minutes of play, Green won a corner, taken by Jeremy, the corner fell into the area, and Dragan Levic struck the ball, with the ball making contact with two Sefton defenders, eventually finding the net. But, the celebrations were short lived, Sefton again took the lead. Moments later, Green again attacked, with Chris Keel making a run on goal, he was brought down in the area, a penalty was given, and Green were given another chance to salvage something. The penalty was converted, by Coach, Stephen Harries, Green were again level, 3-3. Yet again, Sefton found a way to fight back, and a free kick was awarded outside Green’s area, only for Sefton to score again, 4-3. Green continued to press and dominate the second half, with some excellent passing, counter attacking and link up play between midfield and the forwards, but a route to goal could not be found. With a few minutes remaining, Sefton had a late charge into Green’s area, shooting the ball, it bounced and hit one of Green’s players on the arm. A penalty was given, and converted, Sefton were now 5-3 up.

A dominant and spirited Green second half saw them lose the game, which the team felt they deserved to win, but sometimes it goes for you and sometimes it doesn’t. Green sadly lose 5-3, leaving them 1-1-1 so far this season, let’s hope they turn out in force next week against Colorado Sporting Select!

Sorry for the late updates, but here is how the weekend went for FC Denver.

Green Team suffered their first lose of the season, falling 5-3 to Sefton FC.  Full game report to follow.

The White Team led by the Ninja Assasin, fell to a very good Rush team.

The premier team tied 3-3 against a solid Ex-Jesuits team.  In every game so far, the Premier team has improved but has yet to find their first win of the season.  The premier team out hustled and, for portions, out played their opponents who are a CASL powerhouse.  Dustin came up big with 2 assists.  Slipping the ball through for Chris early in the game to put us up 1-0.  We were down 2-1 in the last minute of the first half, when a well placed corner kick met the head (or shoulder) of stopper Matt Kasck to tie it up 2-2.  Dustin again showed his vision, when he played in JC to put us up 3-2.  We gave up a goal a few minutes later, but JC, active all day on the flank, saw our best chance in the dying minutes get deflected over the cross bar.  Newcomers Eddie and Marinko(SP??) made their debut for the Premier team.  Both made a great impact on the team.

Masters Team????? Word on the street is that the old fogies lost, but were short handed.

In the big news for the weekend our Two Women’s teams facing off head to head in the first ever Women’s Green v. White game. The game was a blast by all accounts. Our Green team had a dominant first half and the White team came back strong in the 2nd half to fall just short of the victorious Green team. They’ll play eachother again before the season ends, so we’ll all look forward to that.