It looked like a hectic day for us with three matches to be played in a day under a hot sun in Chennai.
First Match was with Bally B Team and from the start they applied pressure on us by scoring two goals in initial 10 minutes. From then on we never recovered and succumbed by losing heavily and all players were desperate for the match to get over to have a break.
During the break we got much needed relief with the addition of two more players and made a strategy to use them wisely. It led to instantaneous results in second match against Bally A Team as we scored in initial two minutes and by the end of match our star striker(MM) went on to score at will with a hatrick. Interesting thing in this match is we didn't concede a goal. The way we played made us believe that we can compete against good teams.
Even though it was 2 pm in Chennai with the hot sun over head, humid climate and fast depletion of energy levels couple of players were seen planning to topple e-Serv the strongest team in the tournament to make it to finals. Couple of our players recharged themselves by taking a short nap during the break
And our players hardwork has rewarded in the final match with a goal in first five minutes and shocking the opponents. e-Serv used the services of substitutes and applied pressure which led us to concede a goal and ended in 1-1 at end of first half. We planned to play the same type of play in second half also but the opponents were experienced enough to nullify our plans and attacked more through wings and our tired legs could not match to there agile play and we conceded two more goals and ended on losing side.
Inspite of losing two matches and winning one we displayed a much better performance and can improve much in coming days with regular practice during the weekends
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