Fin(n)ished
When I heard our team had been drawn
against a Finnish side in an international floorball tournament
hosted in Banja Luka this weekend I was a little concerned. Concerned
that we would be on the receiving end of a lesson that our young team
might take a little too harshly. There is, after all, no shame in
being beaten by people who may have been playing the game longer than
some of our team have been alive! I made sure I mentioned this
perspective in pre-match discussions. Perhaps it helped, perhaps it
only fuelled an unrealistic optimism of how good getting a good
result would be.
In the end losing 19-1 wasn't as bad as
it could have been. The Finnish side won their other group game 11-0,
so at least we can say we scored against them. It was indeed a
lesson, if not a comparative masterclass, in passing, moving and the
devastating efficiency of one-touch shooting. I'm convinced that as
many as half the goals we conceded were down to the fact of
goalkeeper had never seen people shoot so quickly or from such
angles. He improved throughout the day, by the end of our second game
pulling out some impressive stops. Now, if our attacking players can
grasp the need for speed and shooting first time the result of a
rematch might be a bit closer.
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