Won the big match 3-1 and played superbly well without 2 of our 3 best players.
Quite an interesting approach to the game that is touched on a little bit in the article, but thought id give an insight for all the coaches out there.
I knew that after practice on Sunday, Dennis Moore (no, not that one Rob!) our all star forward would be joining Ricardo Garbanzo our all star attacking mid in not being available for the game.
I then formulated a game plan from watching the previous game that we played against them that we had on DVD (little things making the big difference!)
So from watching the game, they played a 4-4-2, but left big gaps between the back four and midfield four, also they commited men forward leaving gaps centrally on the counter in the final third. Also the left back in my opinion was a target for us.
I played my best player (Alex Martinez) as a right midfielder, to isolate him 1 vs 1 with the left back. He could take him on all day long and serve or cut into goal. Then i played our next best player (Jeremy Dobbins) as a center mid, but just in front of a scrappy defensive mid, giving him the freedom to find pockets of space in front of there back four, and to be a late runner into the box (plattyesque) for Alex.
So we went over this in practice and it resulted in the first goal absolutely how we had worked on! The second was again from Jeremy, and the thrid a wonderful individual effort from Alex taking on the left back.
This is fort mills best squad over the last few years and without our 2 best players this was our weakest, so i can safely say im delighted with the way the boys played and the resul. Gaffed my ass off!