BFC were a side struck by late illness and perhaps a bit of complacency in a game that saw our team of only 11 men register an ‘L’ that put a stop to the 5-game winning streak.
It was a cold and windy Saturday night at the YC&AC and one team seemed to use those conditions better than the other. Fussa popped the ball up in the first halve to have the wind slow it down so to dip just behind the defence and in the second half they used it to assist attacks at the goal and pressure on the defence.
The BFC on the other hand were uncharacteristically quiet throughout with basic communication missing along with a grasp on the flow of the game. Short passes were missing their targets and from the first few minutes it was clear a battle was on their hands.
With Fussa managing to register on the scoresheet first, it was only the raw quality of BFC that pulled us back in front. The first goal saw Paris win the ball in midfield, driving down the left flank to the point where he could play his perfectly weighted pass ahead of Daigo who ran clean through and calmly slotted it away.
A moment of individual magic from Emil for the second saw him pressure one of their defenders high up the pitch, wrestle the ball from their feet and dink it with a lob that seemed to freeze in the air before choosing its spot well out of the keeper’s reach in the top-left of the net.
It wasn’t enough though and it didn’t seem to galvanise the team where mistakes and uncertainty remained.
Fussa managed to unleash an absolute rocket from outside the box that rattled the crossbar twice before going in on its second bounce and with that leveller the momentum shifted. They piled on the pressure and slipped in a goal with little time available for BFC to get it back in near the end.
It was unexpected and was perhaps a bit of a lesson. With subs it’s still likely BFC would’ve finished Fussa off comfortably but that’s the part of the ups and downs of a football season.
We dust ourselves down, take it humbly and use it as motivation for the next game.
