Winning Ugly
We're in the Cup Final. I don't understand how.
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Undeserved Victory
Man, we played poorly.
This was the worst match I’ve seen yet. Everybody played badly.
We went down 1-0 in the 33rd minute after giving up a penalty on a ridiculous defensive play. I don’t even want to think about it. Everybody was playing poorly, and our defense looked ridiculously bad.
The offense was doing okay, but we couldn’t find the goal. I think we had 5 shots hit the woodwork. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I mean, the goal isn’t that small.
A miracle happened in the 2nd half. I put Rovaglia on after Luciano Parra had the worst game of his career in the 1st half. Rovaglia tumbled over in the penalty area in the 81st minute, after I had given up completely, and the referee mysteriously awarded a penalty to us.
I’ve been back to watch the clip, and I simply don’t see it. Pietro fooled him. That’s all there is to it.
Anyway, Mueanta tied it up, and we held on through an uneventful extra time period.
We then won the shootout, 4-3. Yan Kun, of all people, scored the final goal.
This is the same Yan Kun that we bought from Jiangsu FC at the beginning of the season and stuck in the under-21s. This is the Yan Kun who I took no notice of until our coaches started pointing him out in training. This is the same Yan Kun whose debut was delayed because of an injury that took him out for over 2 months.
He’s only 20 years old, and he’s on top of the world.
We have a final match to look forward to. We’ll play against Shenzhen FC, who are 4th in the Chinese Super League. That game will take place right after the end of the regular season.
Qingdao Red Lions
We do have a regular season to finish up here. I’ll keep going through it game by game.
We should win this next one easily, even if we don’t play any of our regular starters. The Qingdao Red Lions are bad, and we look like sure favorites.
The next big question is whether we will hit 200 goals for the season. We’ve scored 199 so far.
After that, we’ll see if we can get our goal differential in the league up to 200. I’ll have to think of some other goals once we hit that one.
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