The Poulidor of the soccer

Raymond Poulidor is a former professional bicycle racer. He was known as the eternal second, because he finished the Tour de France in second place three times. I am thinking that we are becoming the Poulidor of soccer!

We started our game with a 1-3-2-2 formation. Our opponent started with a 1-2-3-2. They were more aggressive and were playing a perfect triangle formation. Our defense was suprised and could not really react. It seems they were frozen. Ok, it was raining and freezing. After few minutes, we were down 2-0. I could not keep going like that so I switched formation and position. I came up with a 1-2-3-2 like them. Right away, we were starting to play and control better the middle of the field. Suddenly my midfielder had a great left foot and we were 2-1 at half time.

Second half, we started with the same formation and asked my boys to be more aggressive on the ball. They did. We equalized with the right middle field, finally waking up, who crossed the perfect ball to our striker who finished it! 2-2! But having 5 subs during a tournament helps the fatigue. They scored right away after a mistake. 3-2. It is difficult and I am trying to tell them to cheer between them. They were quiet. Suddenly, we attacked again and got a penalty kick! I should have asked for a red card but my brain was so frozen and I am a nice guy! Well I didn't think about it anyway! 3-3...

I was starting to believe it but suddenly, we are making another (I don't like to use the word stupid but...) mistakes that we were not making if we were not tired. 4-3. They didn't have any more juice... 5-3!

Well we need to realize that they have been playing together longer than us and they have 13 players that are balanced. Now we were playing in Division Platinum!!! And last fall we were in D3... So ok we lost but we will be back!