Game 5: Opening of EKL Season

9 September @ Miege for our first EKL Match (5-0)

Large day, September 9, with Apple debuting iPhone 6, iPhone 6plus, and iWatch, us heading to Miege for our EKL opener (and that means The Peanut afterwards with BWhite downing a Triple), and the start of the last season of Sons, so. . .

But at the end of one half the match stood 0-0.  There was an almost Spring wind, and we did not have it, but Miege beat us to most balls, and we fumbled around in our 4-3-3, connecting very few passes. So we headed to half time with not much going on.

Second half we exploded and exploded early with 2-3 goals in the opening 10 minutes (4 if you credit us with the Younger goal that was on the scoreboard for quite a while before being ruled an offsides).  

Luke Kutey continues to play very well, and we continue to cash a lot of deadballs, 3 more tonight. Luke's hat trick may have sealed another BWhite Player of the Match for him, but his hard, consistent play in the front third for us has just made us a much better team.

We tried to rest Brownie for the match, but we brought him in for the second half, and he did change how we build the attack, he and our movement into the diamond. That defensive center midfield spot has a lot to do with how successful we are, and it does take awhile to get comfortable with our style there in that spot. 

Mister 80-minutes, Matt Holland, continues to have his defense compact and aggressive, allowing the opposition very little opportunity. B starts every BWhite Player of the Game nomination with: "Well Holland was great again."

Miege has a young team but with quite a bit of skill, so I would have to think they will be in the 1A-4A race again this year. And they play hard.

We are off for the rest of the week, leading into a huge week at Top Dawg. We will see what we are made of next week.

STATS:

First Half: Saints: Shots: 7 (1) Corners: 2 (Kutey, Bartlett)

Miege: Shots: 1 (1) Corners: 0

Second Half: Saints:  Shots: 14 (10) Corners: 5 (Geist, Heying, Kutey, Brown, Johnson).

37:36 Kutey (Johnson drives the perfect T-ball)
31:26 Kutey (Arias lofts the box cross)
25:18 Feuerborn (D'Adamo bends the driven corner in front of the keeper)
19:40 Kutey (D'Adamo zips it back post for the header)
15:53 Cole (Nilsen's left-footed corner brings out a back-heel part with Johnson first and Will for the goal).

Stags: Shots: 0 (0) Corners: 0