Written at the midnight hour
Team: Jean Peter Shilton Minne, James …… reporter …. Philipot, Nils McGrath, Dex or Rex Bernardo, Sylvain Lachia, Steve Lamarra, Richie McGeehan, Maartie Billiet, Hodgy Hodgson, Michele Veggie Vadora, Thomas nanana Kellerman
Squad: 3-5-2
Superssubs : Daniele Donner, Shinichi Takeda, Kevin on fire De Roeck (bench behind the barrier : triathlon’s Didi and Sam
Weather: incredible indian summer, 25° Celsius and only 25% of humidity (thanks to google Pilippot ® weather)
After the so …. and … game of last week against the futsal ….. of Entente (guess the words), time was to reach the border of victory because we were not a million miles away of it. So let’s the dance begin : éhooo (left) éhooo (right) éhoooo (left) éhoooo (right) éhooooo (left) ééého sorry (Thomy). The message was to keep the faith and the tactics and the victory will be ours.
After the new way to warm up from Hodgy we were ready to fancy/destroy the other expats!
Tough game foreseen and it was straight the case. Midfield battle and not a lot of chances. We tried to play more forward but LXG were good on their toes and took the ball possession from the beginning. But thanks to our great organisation they had only a good shot from 27,34 yards that Jean Shilton Minne turned away easily.
We became better and better; upfront RBBFC tried to be more accurate in the last pass, midfields and forwards ran a lot and never gave up ! on one of our interception, Thomy Kellerman received a deep forward pass on the left, he challenged his defender, made a perfect cross-shot to the goal that were deflected into the goal by another defender. 1-0 for the good guys !
The ten last minutes were representative of what we want to show : everyone focused, good ball circulation, good communication, feet on the ball, creating chances, take pleasure and give pleasure to 100 supporters ! we had not 1, 2 or 3 but at least 9 corners kicks to show the tricks we worked at training… Result ? we have to keep working ! 1-0 HALF TIME
Nils took steve’s midfield place after a knocking on his heaven belly and Kev came in to take Nils’ position as sweeper (not sleeper).
We unfortunately could not keep our good end of 1st half time and forgot to build the game. But our every second fighting spirit compensate for it. At their turn, they had a lot of corners kicks but they have to work it as we have !
They received also a lot of free-kicks because yes we made a lot of fouls and received some yellows, orange-almost red cards !
On one of their 20,87 yards free kicks, their n°8 sent the ball above the wall to under the cross bar, jean peter shilton david seaman minne fly to the ball but he only heard a huge BAM. At that moment, every 100 supporters have a different story to tell : did the ball go into the top of the net after hitting the cross bar and then went out of the goal, did the ball hit the cross bar and then rebounded behind
the goal line so was it a goal ?, did the ball hit the cross bar and the rebounded before the line, so it was not a goal ? reporter and MOM Jean Minne does not give a shit, he was flying ! referee liked so much his style and, of course, did not give the goal to LXG ! still 1-0.
Afterwards Daniele and Shinichi came in for Sylvain and Michele who had burned all their calories on the field.
Back to the game, they were pressing a lot but we were close to each other and after a great effort of Hodgy, he saw Thomy (again! But on the right) alone who run as fast as furious and gave a perfect cross to Shinichi who made the 2-0 keeping his one’s cool !
LXG continued to press but lost a man who had some words with the referee so red card for him. Unless that the last 5 minutes were difficult but RBBFC kept the fighting spirit and the referee sent finally all the boys to a lot of rounds of beers and dancing again : éhooo (left) éhooo (right) éhoooo (left) éhoooo (right) éhooooo (left)!
Huge victory for the good guys against a top team ! we can not wait for the next game in the windy field of Tourinnois who is top of the league !
MOM, Reporter and Goalie for a day: Jean Gordon Banks MINNE