Wilmette Wings Soccer Club

 Quite an exciting game today.  The first half was pretty evenly matched and our defensive organization was pretty good.  We had a nice first half goal off a cross and a nice finish by Ethan.  We were down 2-1 at halftime.

In the second half, the game turned into a high scoring affair.  I would have liked to see more defensive pressure in our box as we continually gave the Fire too much time to shoot on goal.  We also didn't execute well defensively in pressure-cover situations.  We'd always like to see one player pressuring the ball and containing the opponent and another player providing cover to protect our goal.  Despite our defensive woes, our attacking game caught on fire.  We had very nice goals in the second half from Sam R (2), Pearce, and Henry.

Despite the big momentum swing in our favor at the end of the game, the final whistle blew just before we could score the equalizing goal.

Definitely saw some encouraging teamwork today and we had some very strong individual performances today.

Final score: Wings 5 - Fire Jrs 6

Players of the Game

Peter R had a great first half as goalie and he did a really nice job of connecting passes when playing outside midfield in the second half.  Sam R also had a great performance today.  He did a great job of anticipating the play off the ball and putting himself into good attacking positions.  Additionally, he provided two very nice goals in the second half.

Nice job guys!

Overall this spring- we've had three very competitive games against some good teams. Nothing to hang out heads about...we're almost over the hump. I'm quite pleased with our effort and the quality of soccer we demonstrated thus far.