I love to score but I also love to play just the right pass, or use a bit of skill to buy some space and time in a tight spot in defence. All of these give me material for my mental highlight reel, which I use whenever I need to go to sleep or just take my mind off something.
- I was put clean through with a vertical pass, good touch to control, one touch to wrong-foot Scott in goals then slotted it to his left. I might have been offside if we played offside.
- I similarly lurking up front, got a good pass with young Kevin (wears an Arsenal shirt) close behind me. I had it ready to shoot on my right as he closed me down, so I chopped it back through his legs onto my left then just tapped it back to my right to put it past Scott. He got a lot on it, but it bobbled up over him and stayed under the bar. Messi was mentioned. Kevin said I ought to buy a lottery ticket.
- Brogi chased a lost cause over in the left corner; beat two men and managed to get in a cross as I arrived in front of goal. I was please with my first time toe-prod finish which caught the defence cold as it often will. I got the angles just right. I looked to Brogi to share the success but he was wrapped up in his own celebration which is his way.
- Brogi and I were 2 on 2 with a defender and keeper. I slid it through for him to shoot on his left; he sent it back to me. I sent it back to him; he indignantly sent it back to me. By then we'd run out of room and I had a bit to do but got it in past Dean.
Andy suffered a sudden calf injury which ended his game. It was the type old players call "shot by a sniper". In the group chat after the game I observed that the ground where we play does in fact have a grassy knoll.
Teams: Me, Brogi, Ratar, Lochie, Andy Bowie v Dean, Scott, Kevin, Raf, Lochie
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