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Women's Soccer Coaches Corner I will try and catch everyone up on the past two weeks since I was unable to write last week due to being sick. A lot was on the line 2 Wednesdays ago against Campbellsville. I knew the game would give us a good idea of where we stood since it would be exactly the halfway point of our season. It was also against a type of team that we had struggled to beat in recent weeks. A team that I felt we had more talent then and needed to win those games on the schedule. Also this game also would mean a lot as far as playoff implications go. Campbellsville is in our conference and region and head to head results determines a lot. We shot ourselves in the foot quickly by giving away two goals in the first 6 minutes of the game. One was clearly a gift to them and the other was a folly of errors on our part. We have not figured out how to not hand away goals to the other team. We played better after that and were dominating possession. We created some decent opportunities but could not come up with any results. The 2 nd half, we started strong and were able to get an early goal off a corner kick. I thought that might be the goal that would get us going, but it was not meant to be. They scored off a more deserved opportunity, and we were never very dangerous after that. The score finished 3-1 in their favor. Yesterday, we played a very similar team, Asbury College, in ability. It was a case of 3 great opportunities in the first half that we did not get anything real dangerous from. Their keeper did not have to make a difficult save even though each opportunity found one of our players with ball against their keeper all alone front of the goal. We made one mistake in the first half that left an opportunity they would not otherwise had, and they capitalized on it. The 2 nd half, we struggled to really put anything together and did not come up with a clear cut opportunity. They scored a decent goal off a corner, and that would be it. At some point, we have to score these opportunities when they materialize. The game is much harder to waste an opportunities and give the other team opportunities which they take advantage. Those two games were sandwiched between our easiest game of the year against Pikeville and our hardest against Lindsey Wilson. The Pikeville team is unfortunately struggling a lot and every team that plays them beats them by at least 15 goals. So I knew last Saturday that would not be much of a test for us, and we would not get a lot of the game. I knew for the Lindsey Wilson game that we would have to play a lot differently then we normally to make the game competitive. We put a specific game plan in place to combat a very powerful Lindsey team. We did well against Lindsey for the first 30 minutes not giving up a goal. Then they showed how good they can be by scoring 3 goals in a matter of 2 minutes. That is one of the reasons why they are ranked #1 in the NAIA. They will take ½ mistakes of teams and turn them into goals. I was very proud of the way our girls played on that night. They stuck with our game plan and even the final score did not indicate it the game was pretty competitive. I was hoping that it would keep us going in the right direction but unfortunately by the result of the game this past Saturday again Asbury it has not. I am more disappointed that there has been no progress in our team from the 6 th to the 12 th game of the season with these type of games like Campbellsville and Asbury, and we have played in 4 of them in between that time. We seem to lose the exact same way even though a lot of work is being done to put us in a situation to win these. I am disappointed that this team has not taken the step forward from last year even though it has more talent. At some point that talent has to step up and make an impact. We will see if this team gets that before the end of the season. With 6 games left, not much time is left to show that. We have Tennessee Wesleyan on Tuesday at home and a big game against Georgetown on Saturday at Georgetown. For our avid readers of this, thanks for checking in.
August 27, 2006 Corner |
