Bombastic B Game - November 25, 2012

Bombastic B won 1-0 over Meraloma Menace at Andy Livingstone West.

Game Summary from Hugh:

The Bombastic B Ladies continued their excellent play with a 1-0 win over Meraloma Menace. This was an important game in the standings as Meralomas were 3 points ahead and in second place at the kick-off, and a loss would put Bombastic 6 points behind. We started well and the goal came fairly quickly. A couple of minutes before the goal, Katrina lost a physical battle for the ball against one of the Meraloma defenders - a couple minutes later Katrina showed great determination and won the ball off the same defender, moved towards the top of the 18 yard box and fed Kaitlin who made a great move to cut the ball to her right foot and blast a shot past their keeper to the near post top corner. For the next 15 minutes or so, we continued to play well, making simple effective triangle passes to move down the pitch. Hayley and Maggie had good chances and Gagan almost scored a header off a corner kick. Unfortunately, at the end of the half we lost our shape and Meralomas were able to apply some pressure. Lindsay was excellent in goal.

The second half was better defensively and Meralomas had fewer chances - we protected the lead well. Our counter-attacking is very strong and we had a number of exciting rushes from down the pitch; we just couldn't get the right cross to match up with the right run. We probably should've made it 2-0 before the final whistle but could not get it done. No worries though - a solid win over a very good opponent. Kudos to our defense - we have allowed only 1 goal in the last four games. Bombastic B now unbeaten in 6!

Goals:
Kaitlin - 1

Three stars of the game:
1. Jana - came ready to play today and was really mobile and aggressive - took charge at the back
2. Kaitlin - scored a great goal a was threat all game long
3. Lindsay - played hurt and played great - really mobile, made a couple of very solid diving saves