Storm 0 Lakehill 0

I cant fault your endeavour today - each of you worked very hard and put your self about, but in the end there wasn't much end product to all our huffing and puffing. We got some good looks at goal, hit the upright, shot over from distance, but in-close, we either didnt battle hard enough or anticipate the shot, rebound or pass.

Lakehill came to close us down and they did a good job, particularly their back line who were first to most of the ball played in their end. Our defense wasn't too shabby either, and I thought we looked more assured on the ball today than we have perhaps in any other game so far this season. We fielded several different defensive combinations and each one did their job very effectively. Our goalkeeping was also very good, with excellent handling and distribution from both Marissa and Mia. That's three straight shut-outs and we should be very proud of that achievement.

Going forward we didnt look as good as we did against Peninsula. We had our moments with some good wing-play, but the Lakehill defence did a good job of getting into the passing lanes and just generally disrupting our attacking game. It seemed at times we forgot we had a midfield (or the midfield forgot it's game) and the ball ping-ponged back and forth between opposition defenders. We have to get the ball down and play our way forward to have success and we didnt do enough of this today.

Next up is Gordon Head. We haven't seen them since the Tourney on the Turf, but we will be playing them twice in short order - once this weekend and again January 10th at Lochside Park.