After the impotence and dissapointment from the previous season, Golden seems to go back to a previous tactic which gives good results on their first match against Sealandia.
Indeed, playing in your own stadium, for your own supporters plays a great advantage for the local team. Golden always knew how to exploit this advantage and Sealandia, morally overwhelmed, sucumbed to a mid-field pillage performed by Golden, with a 3-5-2 formation. The extra mid-fielder proved to be a good tactical advantage, even though attacks were pushed to the wings.
Home goalkeeper, and one of Golden's young pillars, stopped an incredible ball winning the 1-on-1 against Sealandia's forward. Huibert 'the wall of fire' Reijnderts, who was promoted to the first team in the last matches of the previous season, seems to be one of Golden's wise investments.
Other of this young and fresh players from the youth team is Reint van der Werff, who has been nicknamed 'the lightning gazelle', is not only loved by their comrades and the club but a very docile and skillful player, confirming the veracity of the nickname.However, this gazelle has showed the consistency on its spirit and overran the oposition wingers with relentless pace and a strong heart, until an attack from its side created a cloud of confusion on Sealandia's box and the opportunity for Gerry 'the diving eagle' Beshuizen to peck the ball and score the first goal of the match. Sealandia's defenders were trapped in a pinball without flips and watched the action like any other supporter in the stadium.
The match reached a balance of equallity after the goal, the battle was trasferred to a mid-field war zone, with Ionel 'the turtle' Bâlea carrying the banner of pressure and leg-crunching. A loose ball to the wing was fetched by Reint who once again drove a canal through the wing, reached and passed over the last line of defenders and delivered a well placed pass to the box, received by Sófocles 'cushin-chest' Garrido with amazing control, but the shot was easily engulfed by Sealandia's best-like goalkeeper--he was ugly.
Not too long supporters had to wait to celebrate another goal, as Ionel had embraced the number 10 on his back, and stomped the opponent's defense to finish with exquisite handling and give supportersa good reason to show their lungs with victory.
First half ended soon after the goal, and over-excited supporters never stopped chanting their songs diminishing the rivals and pumping Golden's hearts.
Unfortunately, an error from central defender, and unexperienced acquisition, gave Sealandia the opening they were waiting for, and shortened their distance. The wall of fire had been splashed with a bucket of cold water, but suddenly explode like burning steam towards his defenders, for letting that isolated play go so far. 2-1.
The match continued very balanced, until Sófocles showed three fingers in his hand, giving the signal for a well prepared set pieces, directly from the lab. The shot on goal suddenly took a curve, and Eckehard Rademake put his foot in the right place to smash a volley home and give calm to the team. 5' later Reint took advantage of an exhausted defense and zig-zaged to face the keeper, faked the shot and delivered a lob ball leaving the keeper with a silly feeling of impotence mixed with boredom. 4-1, final score. Big boost for Golden at the start of the season.
Let the hard work continue, and the ever growing team will lead us to victory.
