Bangkok Storm Football Club

A consecutive game against Iplay and a consecutive loss. We played very well as a team this time around, had the better play overall, better movement and passing but we made some bad mistakes especially at the back and they made us pay.

Credit to Iplay. They've been playing together longer than us and it really showed. They knew how to get out of trouble and they knew who to go to in key situations whereas we're still trying to find our identity as a team and we're still learning how to play as a team.

We have games where we play extremely well and then we have games against Iplay. For whatever reason it is, we can't seem to get it right with them. Now I'm sure the way they play has a lot to do with that. They are a physical team, but a fair one. Playing physical is not cheating, and we were more prepared this time around to deal with that. I'm very glad that we're cutting down on going on about the refs, it's the same ref for both teams, i'm sure our opponents have just as many complaints as we do.

We really should win every time we score three goals. In the case of tonight, we had some terrible lapse's in our defending and Iplay capitalized each time to the tune of three goals. Their fourth goal was on me, and as we've already stated, i shouldn't have played with a fever, but i chose to, and the team suffered for that. again, my apologies.

But unlike the other games, we reacted well to being down. and that's a great step up. usually we tend to mope and feel sorry/frustrated after conceding and it takes us some time to pick ourselves up again. but tonight, even after going two down, from extremely sloppy defending, we kept playing our game. and it payed off. we clawed ourselves back into it and for another five extra minutes, i am positive we would have tied them. 

but there was no five extra minutes, and especially in a game like today, we have to applaud our opponents and feel good about our performance.

these last two games have shown us a lot. we know where we have work to do. our injuries are mounting up but we have the squad to cope with it. 

we have a better squad than iplay, they play better as a team than us, and they play to their strength whereas we're still trying to learn what our strength is. 

we're now two games in. one win and one loss against two good sides. it's a long season and so long as we learn from each game, be it a win or a loss, we'll be fine.

being a part of a match that ends 4-3 is never a bad thing no matter which side of the score line you're on. both sides played a good game today, there was good movement, some great passing, strong challenges and like i said, seven goals and everyone was able to walk off the pitch.

these are the games we all signed up for and if we continue to perform like we did tonight but eliminate our mistakes, we'll find ourselves on the right side of the scoreline more often than not.

hats off to both set of players. can't wait for the rematch.