Match Report Sat 26th January
Last Saturday we had a tough match against the lowest team on the
table. In the past we had already experienced that playing against a
team low on the table could bring a lot of nonchalance in our play,
so we were warned. .... This Saturday 14 LXG warriors we ready to
fight….
The preparation started as always at Kitty's where some of us had
breakfast by drinking coffee. The standard procedure when meeting
each other, is to come always 15 minutes too late, like real
Italians...we should do something about that !!!
Paolo Rotkappchen told us in his inspiring speech that we had to
pressure immediately and that was what we did the first minutes.
Unfortunately no tactics about torrellos or sobro positions...
We had a good warming up with some good one touch rondos and some
Circus Boltini acts from Catalin Mutu who almost missed the match by
twisting his ankle a bit..
Our capitano for Saturday was Endrik Bip Bip and he had only one task
which was very simple but important: winning the toss. Endrik was
proud like a "French cocq" that he won it as he stated afterwards: I
wasn't a real Italian when I would have lost it (Italian logic.?)
But again, winning the toss was very important as the pitch had a
height difference of 12 meters and we were facing the local typhoon
that could make the difference at first half.
The match.....
Endrik Bip Bip and Luc Twente created a war up front from the first
minute and with the two wingers Simon Armada and Marco Pony causing a
lot of troubles for the defence of FC Gin Bitter Lemoniettes, we
followed the instructions of then trainer.
Fransceso Lazio and Peter Puskas were covering and defending the
whole territory besides the centre of the pitch, because that was
under control of Pat Kuyt and Katalin Popescu. Sada Babos a la
playa , our enfant terrible who was a hooligan Friday evening during
indoor football, was coaching all the time and hoping for clean
sheets….
The mission to "close the game" inspired Luc Twente to score his
first goal, Endrik was inspired by Lucs goal and scored the second
goal and Martijn van Rotterdam was inspired by …nobody knows and
scored the third goal after 5 torrelos (according to Peter even a
handicapped person should have scored this goal. ...FYI)
In midfield we missed David ETA´o but the master on midfield Raffa
Wear Wolf dictated the game and played very solid as a spider in the
web. Before half time it was Luc Twente again and Raffa Wear Wolf who
pushing the score up to 5-0.
After halftime it was Sjahu Duvel who showed his face and joined the
Tifosi at the bench making fun of everybody and shouting like crazy
horses. Luc, Peter, and Sjahu…next time bring your pumpkins.....
In the meanwhile the opponent scored twice. Than something incredible
happened ....it was El Presidente himself, Pat Kuyt
who ...yes ....scored a goal! With a perfect assist of Simon Armada
it was Pat, who once decided to stand still instead of jumping (with
the space of a newspaper between the pitch and his feet) he headed
the ball between the posts leaving 23 people on the pitch, 12, 5
spectators, 2 dogs being flabbergasted...
Jean Luc Purple pants and "clap clap Paolo Rotkappchen" came in
second half and showed the younger guys that they shouldn't
underestimate the old boys. Well done guys!!!!
Looking forward seeing you all soon,
Martijn