The third goal yesterday was a stand out moment for our football team.
I’ve been banging on about putting passes together, keeping the ball. The clock was ticking. It looked like we would miss out on the points again. The final substitutions had been made.
We got the break from a 50/50 challenge in the middle of the pitch and the ball suddenly started moving from back to front, one player to another to another, then finally at our striker’s feet.
She swings a big right foot at it and the net bulges. It was never missing.
I was pleased and proud of what just happened because the simplicity of the move made it so effective.
There was nothing fancy. The ball just went from player to player in maybe five passes max, and the finish was excellent, but it all came from passes.
The whole game is about making passes – executing on the most basic of skills. The team that does it the most wins most of the time.
The work will carry on. The weeks we play badly will be when we don’t execute on our plans and the frustration mounts as mistakes take over.
But when that plan comes together and the ball hits the back of the net at the end of a move as sweet as the one we delivered yesterday, there will be no frustration. We’ll be winning.
Ian Mountford 