Momentary lapses let Dynamos prevail

April 27, 2010 on 7:28 am | In MATCH REPORTS | Comments Off

South/west Men’s Premier League Football
Bunbury Dynamos 4 v Margaret River 3
By coach Gary Leigh
In a frustrating afternoon for River fans we lost to the odd goal in seven after once again dominating large portions of this match away at Bunbury.

We are developing into a fine passing team, which is opening up the opposition defences on many occasions.

River took the lead midway through the first half when a poor clearance by the Dynamos keeper fell to player of the match Alex Costa, who controlled the ball and fired a shot past their keeper, 1-0.

Dynamos then equalized in what seemed a fairly tame attack down the left wing which left both our defender and keeper sprawling on the ground in a vain attempt in stopping the shot, 1-1.

Shogo Maida showed true spirit with his tackling and overlapping from his left back position. I heard one comment which sums up this guy, “he just seems to float across the surface”.

The scores were level at the interval; I didn’t change anything and only had compliments for all team members and thought that we would take all 3 points if we kept playing the way we had first half.

We started slowly after the break and soon conceded a second sloppy goal, 1-2. This once again sparked the River into action with shots from Simon Corke and Josiah Allington both going close.

We then won a direct free kick 20 metres out, this week Glenn Skyme made the diverting run and Alex swung the ball left footed into the Dynamos bottom right hand corner, 2-2 and a great celebration to boot.

The River then switched off, a through ball which should have been dealt with comfortably by our keeper John Malpas eluded him and left a simple goal for the Dynamos to again take the lead, 2-3.

We then completely imploded with an ill-disciplined tackle, when Jon Richards lived up to his nickname “the butcher” gave away a penalty which they converted giving the Dynamos a 4-2 lead.

With only minutes remaining a great jinking run by Tom Pararello dribbled past a couple of Dynamos defenders and chipped the ball over their keeper to reduce the deficit to only one goal.

Losing by only one goal after scoring 3 left me with the feeling of what might have been.

Sam Parrott the youngest member of the first team squad had a superb game once again; he fits in well in the midfield and has the support of many a skillful player around him.

On a day, which produced some beautiful football from all of the River players, we all felt hard done by, but we must remember that this is game of 90-100 minutes and it only takes a moment or two of lost concentration that can destroy it.

The reserves after winning their two opening games of the season came down to earth with a large bump after receiving a football lesson from the Dynamos reserve team 10-0!

I must make a special mention to all the Dynamos players and staff, especially their canteen who always look after us and make us welcome, we thank you.

We have a bye next week but have a home game against Australind the following week May 9th. Training as usual 6.00 pm at Nippers Oval Tuesdays and Thursdays until further notice.