Match 6 saw Balaga face Upsetter's who finished 2nd last season in Division 2. The same formation was employed with Damo kid in goals, back 3 of Tom, John and Phil. Midfield saw Parker back from an enjoyable holiday alongside Rory with the leading goalscorer Webz up front.
The match began slowly again as Balaga quickly conceded a sloppy enough goal. Upsetter's certainly lived up to their name as Tom was stuck marking a fella up front who wasn't afraid to give his point of view of any rough stuff, not afraid to give dish it out either though. A tussle looked to be brewing as within the first 10 minutes both players had words on 2 different occasions.
The scores were leveled soon enough as Rory latched onto a long ball and slotted it past the keeper for his seventh of the season.
The biggest incident of the night though occurred soon afterwords as unfortunately Parker lost possession in midfield and a through ball set the fella up front for Upsetter's 1 on 1 with Damo with a steam rolling Tom in chase. Damo ran out to the edge of his box and slid for the ball. The Upsetter's fella slid to shoot and collided with Damo who saved the shot. Unfortunately for Damo though the onrushing Tom OWNED the Balaga number 1 after smacking his knee/elbow into the face of Kennedy. It has to be said though that this was through no fault of any player involved.
Damo lay concussed on the floor and after quick thinking by the Balaga captain who laid Balaga's stricken keeper onto his side and checked for any tongue swallowage. The Ambulance guys were called and Damo was taken away, awake but groggy. Initial reports are good and here's hoping the trusty keeper is back for next week, possibly with a rugger hat!!
Both teams decided to cancel the game and a decision has to be made about the future fixture.
Get well soon Damo from all at Balaga...
Wednesday 18 February 2009
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2 comments:
i reckon ye should give the points to the upsetters, i heard they beat ye 5 - 2 in the end!!
Was there a problem with your keyboard? Perhaps a PC failure? You never finished this match report??? I'll help you out - "Even though we restarted the game after Damo's injury, and we still had 7 players on the pitch, The Upsetters gave us a right tonking. We did score a late consolation to make the score semi respectable but still took a 5-2 hammering. We were just unable to cope with their precision passing, movement off the ball, and general higher standard of play."
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