GFL

Thursday League Cup  

After a week when the compliments have been flowing there had to be a game to disappoint.  This was it; unfortunately it was the Kent Street League Cup Final.  A show piece game you hope will show all that’s best about futsal. It did not happen.

Perhaps it did not help that the teams had played each other the previous week with an almost similar score line (4-8 to East Marsh).

Pockets of skill were on show, but overall it was defences that dominated, not always within the rules.  Defenders were flying in at any opportunity.  The art of patient organised defence was not on show. The art of taking the ball and a piece of the man appeared to be most defenders only consideration.  Both teams were guilty.

Kent St. Futsal League Cup Winners 2010

East Marsh

 Finalist 2010

Market Hotel

The game.  It ebbed and flowed with Market Hotel always chasing East Marsh goals, they was never in front. Half time East Marsh 4-3. Both teams finished the first half on 5 fouls, but neither team conceded the vital 6th foul to give their opponents a free ten meter shot at goal.

The second half East Marsh opened up a 3 goal lead that Market Hotel cut back to 1 goal and at that point looked as though a leveller was coming and just, maybe the games momentum had changed.  It was not to be, as so often happens in these scenarios Market Hotel scored to reopen a two goal margin. 

Market had to push, they changed keepers and tactics, but to no avail, and chasing the game opened up more East Marsh opportunities.

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 East Marsh did get a 10 meter free shot for fouls accumulated against them, but as so often happens with these not so easy chances, it was saved.

10-4 flattered East Marsh, but the win was deserved.

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