The UKRC U11 team had a good outing last Saturday 18th July 2009, winning both their matches thus earning them 6 valuable points. With the 2 wins, UKRC U11 team move into 5th place in the Group A of the National Open Junior Community Football League 2009. The team played TTDI First Touch whom they trashed 16-0 in their previous encounter. But this time around the team only managed a 6 nil victory. TTDI First Touch has improved their game very much since the last encounter since they managed to reduce the scoreline by over 60%.
In the second game UKRC U 11 managed a 3 nil victory over an all Japanese outfit ASTAKA FC.
However, I personally feel that they should have done much more against the 2 lesser opponents. The team should have scored more goals given that both the matches was pretty much one-sided with the team having more than 70% possession of the ball and with play was most of the time concentrated in the opponent's half. UKRC U11 goalkeeper hardly handled the ball in both the matches.
The team kena main the game more "openly" and not get "crowded". Whatever happened to their short passing skills and players making spaces for themselves. Half way through the League and we still have players being given a foul for a throw-in. The players should be given the encouragement to play a "thinking" game. We need 2 to 3 players who can distribute the ball from the back and the middle of the field and dictate play and create open spaces.
The team should also make full use of set pieces opportunities like the corner kicks and free kicks, to create opportunities and chances to score goals. Kena try macam2 plan masa practise sessions. We have some "hard kicker of the ball in the team", they can try scoring from long range, and when playing against a weaker opponent, we should have used all the players available, thus giving them the game exposure they much needed.
Hey! wait a minute, these are 11 years old we are talking about ..... and I am asking them to play like adults, sorry. Anyway, congratulation to the players. They did a marvelous job winning the 2 matches. Keep up the momentum, practise hard and hopefully make much more improvement in your game as you would need them in the coming games against tougher opponents. I believe the team can make it to be among the top in the table standings.
Click on the link below to view some of the photos taken during on that day
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallahudinar/sets/72157621777280566/
and click on this link for the latest results from NOJCFL 2009 website
http://jrleague-malaysia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=89
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