CSC 00 Boys Gold vs Javanon at 2pm on 8/28/11

First half started out a little sluggish. We were rushing ourselves much like we started out in our game Saturday. We began to slow our attacks down midway through the first half and ended up scoring two goals before halftime. Our defense was pretty solid not allowing too many shots and our tackles were pretty good on the ball. At halftime we discussed that we needed to score some more goals in the second half if we wanted to secure our lead and hold on to a win against Javanon. Unfortunately, we made a mistake early in the second half and a bad deflection off of one of their players went into our goal. We seemed to panic in our play after that misfortunate goal. We found ourselves trying to rush our possessions and attacks which resulted in us turning the ball over too often. They counter attacked on our turnovers and had speed up front which caused us some issues. We got called for a pushing foul inside our box on a 50/50 ball which resulted in a penalty kick being awarded. They scored on the penalty kick and tied the score at 2-2. We lost our team composure and continued to feel rushed when we had possesion. Our midfield turnovers in the middle third gave them several attacking opportunities against us. One of our turnovers and fouls on the left side allowed them to have the ball down on the corner for a free kick which they crossed to the far post. We had two players on the back side during the cross but found ourselves ball watching while two of their players ran past us to the far post. One of them hit the one touch and scored their third goal to go up on us
3-2. We made a late substitution to get in more offense and switched to a 2-4-1 formation to try to get in a last minute tying goal but we were unsuccessful. We ended up losing a tough one 3-2.