Description

Wednesday evening pickup game (4:7)

We played at Scottsdale Reata field #19 at 8 PM.

Again two games, but this time Scott and I went to the next field to play with youngsters.

Injury: My patellar bone irritation from the previous week's overloading was still present. So I planned to take it easy. But since we were losing most of the time, I could not help myself and just ran hard and a lot.

Note

We got the early goal, but I tied the game with an individual effort. Then we were even winning when I found Chad with a beautiful pass and he scored into the empty net. However, until halftime we got three goals and lost the half 2:4. One of the goals was scored by Nico from a longer distance into the empty net. Nico played with us first and I was giving him a lot of passes on the wing. When more guys arrived, they had to reshuffle it and traded him.

The second half looked better at first. Rori scored one or two of our goals. But we had plenty of chances and could not convert those into goals. I was out of luck with my shooting as well.

When the other game ended, more guys arrived and the field became extraordinarily small with a lot of players on it. It was literally impossible to find an empty space. Too crowded, not a good play. We pushed hard, but since most of our guys just stood up front, they forced their defense and goalie to stay present and on watch.

On the other hand, our defense and nonexistent goalie were too high, almost on the half, so their breakaways went pretty much on the empty net. I often ran into our defense and blocked shots, but I could not be everywhere. Maybe this was the reason why I got a 4.0 Anaerobic training effect despite playing with a lower average HR than the previous week.