matchreport - 12-Dec-09 - latini v. casuals
Team Latini
Author Francois Dotta
line up
 Tu-Price(valsecchi)-Erba-Lacourt-Bucciali-Mocellin( Michel)- Dotta-Dambre-Jelik (joon)- De Maria(Lucio)-Magaud(Minorikawa)
Xmas Present for Latini FC
The game started on an emotional but sad note as Olivier Lacourt will be returning to France. He has been the perfect illustration of what makes Latini a great team to play for displaying at any time, team spirit, competitive mindset but most importantly socially driven. The good news was that finally one woman on this planet decided to marry our bournemouth boxer Rob Price!!

To be fair to Casuals mr 100 goals in 2 years aka Dom Mooney was absent but we were missing also 5 players so I believe forces were equal when Brad whistle the start of the battle. 

In a nutshell the first half was extremely well balanced with very little chances on both sides. Casuals being dangerous with long balls and direct plays whistle Latini had a few shoots resulting from short passes but nothing dangerous for Cuong or Dez. Very nice "men in the game" to watch with Adri vs Greg. 

Second half was slightly to the advantage of the Latini with more control in the midfield and more chances in front of the goal. Olive Magaud & Michel almost scored the opener but the ball went out by few cm both times. Owen from casuals hit a header on the exterior post on the free kick but that was it. 

Latini decided to go for the win by playing 4-3-3 in the last 25 min and it paid when a fast break counter attack from Joon to Fafa to Angel who delivered a nice ball from the left to Olive Magaud who made no mistake to give us a somehow slightly deserved victory. 

Honors will be go to all the team this time with special thanks for players who did not play their regular positions (benji,lacourt), those who played short time but with tons of enthousiasm (angel, olive, jun) those who came to support us (etienne, gaetan, paulo, fredo). all these team efforts does not go unnocticed for sure. 

Special mention to Olive Lacourt & Raffa Erba who played like absolute animals at the back. Without the performance of back 4 nothing would have been possible. MoM goes to Olive Magaud who did not play the best but did the best thing at the best moment possible and allowed us to celebrate until dawn all together with big smile!

Olive L all the best m8 for the future. we will miss you for sure.
Karen Price all the luck in the world my lady. we will support you the best we can ;-)

Good game of the Casuals with another brilliant performance from their captain. Good luck for the rest of teh season

Good & fair performance of referees.