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Soccer: Loss, 3-0

The score looks pretty bad, but the game didn't seem so bad. How many times have I said that before?

I played sweeper for most of the first half until I got smacked in the face with the ball. No real bleeding (yay! although I do have a little scrape on the side of my nose...) but I subbed out just in case. I seemed fine, so I went back in, where the lens of my glasses promptly popped out. I found it, but couldn't fix them, so I had to play for a little while with no glasses. It turns out seeing is a really nice skill to have in a soccer game. So I subbed out and tried to do some repair work. With the aid of a paperclip, a band-aid, some wirecutters, and Kristen, I was all set to go back in. I played the whole second half without other injuries or equipment failures. Whoo.

I thought I played a pretty decent game. I tried to talk more, with some marginal success, and had a few good runs back to break up shots on breakaways. A couple of times things got a little more physical than I would have liked, but I didn't get called for a penalty so maybe it wasn't so bad. Maybe I have been watching too many professional games lately! The other team had some nice players on it, too, and they didn't seem to complain about it.

The problem, which sounds just like last season, is that we couldn't sustain any pressure in the midfield. We got out-hussled, and didn't play positions well to start an attack out of the defense. Maybe we'll figure out how to do this someday.