Record crowd but poor result, if you have been following my account you will know that I have linked up my Hattrick football team with my lego build. This Sunday was the first league match of the new season. As the team is still in the cup competition I was trying a new formation and a slightly weaker team, thinking I would still be strong enough for the team I was playing. Unfortunately though, the team got beat, which already means a season of catch up. A tad annoying but a formation change and a new signing should stabilise things.
Report below.
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It was to be a contest between two different football philosophies, since the home team started the game with a 5-3-2 formation while the visitors instead opted for 2-5-3.
It was an obvious ambition of Revenge to use their titanic ability at attacking on the flanks.
James Young caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 3 minutes. This gave Revenge the 1 - 0 lead.
Revenge's Remmelt Verlegh swung in a good chance from the left, but the visitors' defence were able to clear the ball.
Odd Helgesen came close to levelling the score 6 minutes into the game, as he was set up with a through ball coming in from the left, but his shot hit the post.
After 34 minutes, the visitors tied it up at 1 - 1 when a fantastic pass from the left was finished off by Anthony Lane.
The guests almost went up by a goal after 40 minutes when Joan Caldés came through and shot from the right. The ball bounced harmlessly off the post, though.
1 - 1 was the halftime score.
fiesta enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 55 percent of possession.
fiesta's Simone Augusti gave the visitors a 1 - 2 lead after 70 minutes with a superb strike from the right.
With 72 minutes played, Matías Mir nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar.
With 75 minutes played, Rob Burton of Revenge fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving.
After 77 minutes, following yet another great corner, Matías Mir's flick on at the near post reached Simone Augusti, who was just wide with his snapshot - the ball went out for a goal kick.
The referee announced 2 minutes of stoppage time, giving fans a slim hope that their team could get one more attack in before this was all over.
After 89 minutes, an incisive pass through the middle gave Anton Shandy a chance to increase the lead for fiesta, and he did not disappoint. The score was then 1 - 3.
Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by fiesta, with 53 percent of the ball.
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