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matchreport - 27-Feb-10 - ubin v. swiss
Team
Swiss
Author
Urs Brutsch
line up
Crawley, Braegger, Lozza, Bobbia (Brutsch), Keiser, Patton (Kaegi) Anthony (Tsalkitsis), Kofinas, Schulthess (Garatti), Burzle, Buchmann (Paronjody).
Swiss beat Ubin 3:2, again
The teams came into this game with different levels of confidence: Ubin on the back of some good games and two narrow defeats against SCC and the Swiss after losing 4 of the last 5 games. No surprise then that Ubin gets the better start and puts the Swiss on the back foot. The Swiss are struggling with the nippy Ubin forwards and on 25 minutes Ubin capitalizes twice within two minutes. The goals were almost carbon copies: a good run down the right flank and a clever ball back to the forward who has an easy task to finish. 2:0 Ubin and the Swiss staring another defeat in the eye. Bill Crawley then pulled off a spectacular save to deny Ubin a third. That would probably have been game, set and match.
However, after a few readjustments in the line-up the Swiss start to get into the game and reduce the deficit when Christian Schulthess pounces on a loose ball following a corner kick. 2:1 Ubin at the break. The half time talk was that if we can raise the game a notch we have every reason to believe that we can get full points from the game.
The second half saw a Swiss team with a lot more passion and urgency. But first it was Ubin who had about 4 attempts on goal in quick succession but Bill and the defenders somehow kept the ball out. Again, that could perhaps killed off the game for Ubin. But as often in football that is when the tide turns. Sub Patrick Paronjody coolly converted after about 10 minutes into the second half when he outran the Ubin defender and cleverly chipped the ball around the goalkeeper. Only 3 minutes later the Swiss take the lead when Christian Schulthess picks up a long ball on the right and uses his pace to go past the defender and to beat the keeper from a tight angle. 3:2 Swiss! Ubin initially shocked about this total reversal and that allowed the Swiss to create a few more chances, but to no avail. At the other end, Ubin was chasing the equalizer but the tiring forwards could not create many more opportunities. The closest they got was from a long range freekick which went off the upper side of the cross bar.
The Swiss managed to hang on to the win without too many problems in the last few minutes. Congratulations to Ubin for a good and fair encounter.
Man of the match: Bill Crawley for keeping the Swiss in the game a number of times!
However, after a few readjustments in the line-up the Swiss start to get into the game and reduce the deficit when Christian Schulthess pounces on a loose ball following a corner kick. 2:1 Ubin at the break. The half time talk was that if we can raise the game a notch we have every reason to believe that we can get full points from the game.
The second half saw a Swiss team with a lot more passion and urgency. But first it was Ubin who had about 4 attempts on goal in quick succession but Bill and the defenders somehow kept the ball out. Again, that could perhaps killed off the game for Ubin. But as often in football that is when the tide turns. Sub Patrick Paronjody coolly converted after about 10 minutes into the second half when he outran the Ubin defender and cleverly chipped the ball around the goalkeeper. Only 3 minutes later the Swiss take the lead when Christian Schulthess picks up a long ball on the right and uses his pace to go past the defender and to beat the keeper from a tight angle. 3:2 Swiss! Ubin initially shocked about this total reversal and that allowed the Swiss to create a few more chances, but to no avail. At the other end, Ubin was chasing the equalizer but the tiring forwards could not create many more opportunities. The closest they got was from a long range freekick which went off the upper side of the cross bar.
The Swiss managed to hang on to the win without too many problems in the last few minutes. Congratulations to Ubin for a good and fair encounter.
Man of the match: Bill Crawley for keeping the Swiss in the game a number of times!
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