Saturday 14 March 2015

Match Report: City Slays The Dragons

City 1 vs Didcot 1 - 08.03.15
19-2 Win

It’s a sign of City’s progress this season that we utterly dominated a pretty experienced Didcot side, but were actually a bit disappointed in some ways when we came off.  

There were definitely areas of improvement to work on: we failed to score for the first 15 minutes, and a lot of our shots were going very long initially. Definitely something to work on in training. However, once Dave Everett kicked us off with an inch perfect long shot, Ruth got her range and quickly followed with another one and the floodgates opened. In the end the mythical 20-goal barrier was tantalising close, but for the second time this season we fell one goal short, with a similar story of shots rolling around the rim only to fall off. Ultimately we were left rueing the slow start, but it’s hard to be too critical of such a heavy victory!

Korfball is a team game, but individual battles are also important, and special mention goes to Gaz, who finished in credit against Dave “5 goals a game” Ewing, scoring two and restricting Dave to one. After getting his eye in it was our Dave E who scored five instead. Alice and Ev combined excellently to demonstrate dynamic defence and great speed in attack as well. Both divisions were excellent in defence, actually - Didcot rarely looked like scoring.

Scorers: Dave E (5), Ev (3), Dan (3), Gaz (2), Niall (2), Ruth (2), Alice (1), Claire (1)

MVP: Dave E was definitely in the running with his excellent five goals, and it was great to see Ev stamping her superiority on her opponent. However, I’m going to give it to Gaz: he didn’t have a particularly flashy game (despite scoring an awesome long shot), but he did the dirty stuff in defense really well, and nullified a massively danger player.

- Match report by Dan

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