Final

What's happening with the Cru...?

Congrats Mustangs on a hard fought win. This team will be a tough out, they are hustling at all facets of the game.

Definitely a surprise. Details?

I was at work and couldn't make the game, but from what I heard St. Henry's defense fell apart.

Was the pitch the great equalizer?

Was the pitch the great equalizer?

 

And the sun in the eyes.

I was at work and couldn't make the game, but from what I heard St. Henry's defense fell apart.

Kind of a bold statement if you were not at the game.

Cru goalie Tate Johnson got injured and did not play the rest of the game.

Easy to throw the defense under the bus when another team outscores you.

We won't mention all the missed opportunities by the Cru offense who were also out-hustled by the Mustangs. Soccer is a TEAM sport.

 

Congratulations to Bishop Brossart! Go represent NKY at the All A!

About 12th minute, a cross in the box resulted in a point blank shot by BB, that was bobbled by the Cru keeper, and walked in by the Mustang attacker (Rolf). About 4 minutes later, the Cru got the ball all the way to the end line (btw .. Cru are fast up top), then a hard shot across the box ricocheted off a defender for an own goal, and the match was even 1-1.

 

In the 40th minute, a ball was played deep in the Cru box, headed over the bar by the Stangs. Unfortunately for St. Henry, their keeper Johnson was injured on the play (thigh/knee injury .. hard to tell), and he never returned to the match. By all accounts, injured by his own defender (hard to tell; many players in the box, but I heard fans from both teams feel he was hit by a teammate). All square 1-1 at half.

 

About 20 minutes in to the second half, a beautiful header (Geiman) off a free kick gave BB the 2-1 lead. A short while later, a similar play resulted in another header (Rolf), and it looked like the match was over. With approximately 5 minutes remaining, the Cru dented the net to get within 1 (I missed who scored), and the match was back on. As the Cru battled to get the equalizer, pressing forward, the Mustangs (Geiman) got behind the defense and beat the keeper in a 1v1, for the 4-2 final.

 

Were there breakdowns on defense? Probably, but I give the Cru the benefit of the doubt. Norris was missing for a substantial part of the game with an injury, and they were without the services of their keeper the entire second half. Schafefer filled in admirably, but wasn't able to withstand the second half attack.

 

The Cru had their chances ... either just wide, right at the keeper, or nice saves by the keeper. Hildreth had a nice game between the pipes for BB, back from missing several games with an injury.

 

As mentioned, the Cru are fast up top. However, BB is big, strong and fast up top, and were able to get the finishes that St. Henry couldn't. Very even teams .. could have gone either way.

 

Best of luck to BB at Frankfort and in the 10th, and best of luck to the Cru in the 9th. I hope Johnson and Norris are ok.

 

Pitch was not a factor; sun was equally in each keeper's eyes for a half (each gave up 1 goal in the sun; other 4 goals were at other end).

Kind of a bold statement if you were not at the game.

Cru goalie Tate Johnson got injured and did not play the rest of the game.

Easy to throw the defense under the bus when another team outscores you.

We won't mention all the missed opportunities by the Cru offense who were also out-hustled by the Mustangs. Soccer is a TEAM sport.

 

Congratulations to Bishop Brossart! Go represent NKY at the All A!

"Bold statement..." ? Relax, I only made a simple remark about what I heard. Well done to BB.

About 12th minute, a cross in the box resulted in a point blank shot by BB, that was bobbled by the Cru keeper, and walked in by the Mustang attacker (Rolf). About 4 minutes later, the Cru got the ball all the way to the end line (btw .. Cru are fast up top), then a hard shot across the box ricocheted off a defender for an own goal, and the match was even 1-1.

 

In the 40th minute, a ball was played deep in the Cru box, headed over the bar by the Stangs. Unfortunately for St. Henry, their keeper Johnson was injured on the play (thigh/knee injury .. hard to tell), and he never returned to the match. By all accounts, injured by his own defender (hard to tell; many players in the box, but I heard fans from both teams feel he was hit by a teammate). All square 1-1 at half.

 

About 20 minutes in to the second half, a beautiful header (Geiman) off a free kick gave BB the 2-1 lead. A short while later, a similar play resulted in another header (Rolf), and it looked like the match was over. With approximately 5 minutes remaining, the Cru dented the net to get within 1 (I missed who scored), and the match was back on. As the Cru battled to get the equalizer, pressing forward, the Mustangs (Geiman) got behind the defense and beat the keeper in a 1v1, for the 4-2 final.

 

Were there breakdowns on defense? Probably, but I give the Cru the benefit of the doubt. Norris was missing for a substantial part of the game with an injury, and they were without the services of their keeper the entire second half. Schafefer filled in admirably, but wasn't able to withstand the second half attack.

 

The Cru had their chances ... either just wide, right at the keeper, or nice saves by the keeper. Hildreth had a nice game between the pipes for BB, back from missing several games with an injury.

 

As mentioned, the Cru are fast up top. However, BB is big, strong and fast up top, and were able to get the finishes that St. Henry couldn't. Very even teams .. could have gone either way.

 

Best of luck to BB at Frankfort and in the 10th, and best of luck to the Cru in the 9th. I hope Johnson and Norris are ok.

 

Pitch was not a factor; sun was equally in each keeper's eyes for a half (each gave up 1 goal in the sun; other 4 goals were at other end).

Great report, justsayin, thanks!

Hard to get a take on this game from reading the game summary, was the game closer then the 4-2 score would indicate? At one point it sounded like St Henry was back in it, "just wide, right at the keeper or nice saves by the keeper".

But then I read, Brossart walks a goal in, one of St Henry's goals was a Brossart own goal, keeper got hurt, did the sun have an impact on the free kick goal for Brossart?

 

Either way giving up four goals in a loss during a 0-3-2 run/11 goals against has to cause concerns for the St Henry staff.

 

Good luck to Brossart in the next round of the All A.

I heard Norris went to the ER after the game to get stitches in his mouth. Hope he is alright. The teams were even overall IMO. Brossart capitalized on poor marking off freekicks for 2 of the goals. St. H keeper bobbled the ball on the 1st goal and BB had an easy tap in. For the final goal I think a poor clearance resulted in BB midfielder to get a break away and score easily making it 4-2