Yes, we lost. But if you ask me, I think it was a performance that we can be proud of. The opponents had some luck, so did we, but they were lucky first so it changes things a little. In the last two games, we were stringing passes together in midfield to attack, and it is something i have NEVER seen before from the back. Signs that we are finally playing football. I see our fullbacks getting forward and being more constructive with their passes, midfielders are passing to each other properly, instead of everyone just trying to hit the long magical killer pass forward like how we have always played. And this, my friends, is how football should be played. We are still not incisive enough in terms of the final pass, but learning to build-up is always a good start.
Over the years, I have observed that we always play well against good teams. And it's not just random casual observations, but when you're right at the back of the team, you can really see the drive and hunger of the players in front. When we play against good teams, we close them down fast and hard, in twos and threes, the challenges we put in are stronger and it really shows in the desire to win the ball. But whenever we play teams like astala vista, meirda, dunman, we just slack off. If we can have the right mentality, to go into every game thinking like we're playing reunite or elite, we can definitely brush idiots like astala vista off.
It's a MENTAL thing. It's like everyone one of us has this button inside that needs to be pushed, and we can play at a higher level after that.