Grimsby 10 Sheffield FC Futsal Club 10

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Nothing I can write can describe the emotions this game
threw at me.
  On face value 20 goals describes
a game in which neither team had a goal keeper or knew how to defend.
  This was not the scenario; both teams knew
how to defend and had excellent keepers.

Sheffield sat Grimsby back in the opening 5 minutes, only to
be undone by a Peter Herriman wonder goal – when he received the ball on the
edge of the Sheffield area he was marked, in a movement that should be on ‘you
tube’ he rolled the ball over his opponents out stretched legs – changed the
ball to his opposite foot in the same motion – curling the ball into the
keepers net whilst sending him wrong way in the process.
  You expect such things at Old Trafford, but
not from Grimsby Futsal.

The game from that moment to half time mirrored the previous
Leeds game, 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5. Why can’t we hold a
lead for 2 minutes?
  I (the team) have to
rectify this problem.

 

 

2 goal debutant Shane Garvey

 

3 minutes remaining and 10-7 left I called a time out; ‘keep
the ball,’ watch the clock,’ run the clock down.’
  During the same time out Sheffield, with
nothing to lose, withdraw their keeper, to play an outfielder as a ‘flyer’
keeper.
  A tactic that historically we have
found hard to counter, first attack they score, 1 minute later it’s 10-9, Sheffield
are calling all the shoots, 30 seconds left 10-10.

As though written for a story book there was one last twist;
Grimsby is awarded a penalty with 8 seconds remaining on the clock.
 Danny Durrosimo, the player fouled, stepped up
to the plate.
  What odds Danny from 6
meters against a non specialist keeper (95-1)?
 
The ball hits the keeper and rolls wide.

A draw was a fair result in a game we had won and could have
lost.
  What drama; when asked to sign the
team sheet my hand was shaking.

Every player was brilliant, as a group they set a new
standard for Grimsby Futsal.
  This game
was fast, it was intense, it demanded players with football brains and technique
to match, every player was up to task.
 
The pleasing thing for me as manager is that all the players are aware
that the team has potential to improve, we need to add set plays at corners and
free kicks, we need to stop conceding goals from wide areas, we need a team
tactic to counter the ‘flier GK’.

Danny Durrosimo scored 3, Shane Garvey 2, Paul Herriman 1, Daniel
Hornigold 2, and Mathew Payne 2.
  All 10
goals had a quality stamp on them; Shane Garvey should probably be credited
with an extra point for an ‘unstoppable’ gaol line clearance.

Grimsby are competitive with all the FA North opposition,
the squad is loaded with potential, watch this space.

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