Town 1 - 2 Rangers

After last weeks result the confidence was high among the boys that a result was possible against the tough Miramar Rangers battle who the Marist Town team have either been smashed in the past against or come away with a great win.

The game started off with the toss won by us and we decided to go into the wind as knowing Wellington the wind would pick up in the afternoon. The start of the match was very even but with the majority of the play in the Marist town half due to the strong wind making near on impossible to play the ball in the air in our true lofted style of football (This is probably been picked up by some little African nation that doesn't even play soccer in the wind, and probably does not even have soccer balls, but hey we will give it a dam good go).

Any way the with the wind at the Miramar backs they decided that they will also start playing like the little African country style football and put a ball over the top, which landed perfectly for the Miramar striker who controlled it and managed to slot it past Anthony at the back. 1-0 Miramar Rangers, after 15 minutes. While after seeing this the boys started to play some good football and managed to to play the ball around and get some good breaks, and results where quickly found with a through ball from the middle of the park, being slotted around the defenders legs to set Big Banger Brad away on a 40 yard run, to slot the ball past the keeper to even up the tally 1 all after 25 minutes. The rest of the first half stayed tight with Most attacks on each goals being snubbed out.

Second Half

The second half was again another tug of war with Miramar Pouring on the attack and for it to be snubbed out at the back, and a few breaks coming for the the Marist Town boys, Well it would have been great for the game to end 1 all but the Miramar boys kept on with the pressure and got a break down the right hand side and managed to slot it past Anthony on a tight angle 2-1 to Miramar. The game continued on at great pass and Dan V managed to get a shot away from the outside of the box to have everyone beaten except for the round bar which bounced it back only to be cleared by the Miramar defense. (just think if they still made those square post it would been 2 all.) The attacks continued from the Marist boys and a shot from a very different looking Andy F just went over the crossbar.

That just about sums it up, it was a close game which was one for the taking and just got away from the boys but again it shows that the team is still improving and that with a bit of luck we will be on the right side of the result soon. Any way all I say is bring on Saturday as it is the Marist Town (Madrid) Versus the Marist (Real) should be a classic and after last year revenge should be on the cards.