Overseas Report

After reading the match report and gathering feedback from WeeSiang, this is what I have to say ...

All along I felt that field soccer is not our forte because we are just not used to playing such a big field afterall coz we have been playing street soccer for such a long time. When playing with a small court like street soccer, you can do whatever you want on the court like dribbling from one end to the other, triple step-overs, rainbow kick and etc coz even when u lose posession, u can easily run back coz its such a small court. However on the field its really a different thing, imagine running up and down the field for 10 times ? Unless your stamina is of like Lionel Messi or Wayne Rooney, or else its pretty tiring for u and for the whole team who is covering for ur mistake.

But the whole point that I wana highlight to you guys is that we need to defend and attack as a team !!

Whats the point of trying to dribble past the defender when all u could do is to play a one-two with someone ? Its not that I do not encourage my mifielders to take on defenders but its just that you can't do it all the time. Yes you can dribble past one defender ... but how about the 2nd and 3rd defender ? What are the chances of dribbling past the 3rd defender? Is it worth to lose that goal scoring chance ? Besides its pretty tiring to keep dribbling for the whole match, you need to preserve energy so that u can last the whole match. Plus everyone have a standard dribbling pattern, once the defender have fully analysed your dribbling tactic then its GG for u ....

Whats the point of trying to run into space and shoot the moment our mifielder receives the ball when we could just slowly attack ? That's the main problem u see, everytime when our mifielder receives the ball , our strikers will just run forward thinking that they could make a "Zidane" like through pass to them and 9 out of 10 times , we will be caught offside. GOAL SCORING CHANCE GONE !! Instead our strikers should drop back to support our mifielders so that we could slowly start our attacking play. In this way, the strikers can create more space for the mifielders to run into as the defenders will try to get the ball from you.

Next up, one of the most important thing which I have learnt : POSITIONING. In a game, positioning is very important as once you are out of position means that there will be a gap for the opposition to start attacking. So always try to stay within your zone if not once someone loses possession, it will be quite easy for the opposition to start attacking the gap left by you.

In order to start attacking, we need to support the player who is holding the ball by running into space. You can't expect our mifielders to do a 360 turn before passing the ball to u right ? You need to create space for yourself so that the pass to u won't be intercepted and at the same time draw the defender towards you so that there will be space for our mifielders to run onto. When i say support the player, its means that you run towards him not away from him. By playing close together, there will be lesser chance for mistakes to happen as all we need to do is to use our instep to make a decent pass towards you.

In a match, I feel that we should always try to make short passes instead of long passes as all of us are not David Beckham who can make a 30 yard so accurately that it will land in front of the running player.

Everytime when you guys are playing in a match, remember this 3 words "TRAP LOOK PASS" ...

But dun feel dishearten guys, we are still learning as the day goes by and I am sure we can all improve as a team :)