Late Sub… WHAT!?

So the tournament Ardi plays in as a keeper had a game tonight and they conceded a goal right after the start, ending Ardi’s 40 minutes of clean sheetness to an end — at 40 minutes. Ironic sometimes how someone brags about something and loses it right at that minute, so to say.

Then it was 0-2 and it looked bad, very bad. In those moments, the team’s captain admitted he had an injury and that was why he couldn’t run in the game and did nothing. But some minutes later it was made 1-2 by a lucky goal. And the half ended that way.

I offered the team captain to come in the game in his place cause he really had expressed his injury as ‘painful’ and ‘not going away’. Then again he is someone who never backs off — like myself, but that’s not the point here — and continued to play and start the second half.

Second half couldn’t have started better as the team found the equalising goal after missing the goal so many times when they could have actually scored much easier. 2-2 then.

Things looked better with the captain as he now thought the game is back, so did the rest of their team. Ardi was so happy about the result that he even was 5 meters out of his goal, only to concede a hilarious goal — for the opposition and very sad for him — because he usually doesn’t concede goals that are THAT bad. Andre Lenz of Wolfsburg is much more famous for those. At least Ardi doesn’t think he’s the greatest and the team ‘would win’ because of him. So details aside it was  2-3 and they were trailing all over again.

The team captain looked again very much in pain and me offering him to come in as his replacement wasn’t what he wanted, again. The game went on and the opposition scored on the counter again 2-4. The game wasn’t going away — at least the team captain and Ardi didn’t think so.

But a total of 10+ shots going wide of the goal from nearby wasn’t what would get them back into the game. Rather, it wasted a lot of time by them rushing it and getting nothing.

Instead, the opposition got their lead to 3 goals for the first time in the game. 2-5 the score as everybody knew what was going to happen with this failure team that failed to even get close to them in any terms late on. Then 2 minutes from time, finally the captain decided to come out. I guess 3 goals can’t be turned back that fast, not against a team all in their defence. And I went in, only to block two more goals heading to own goal and produce a chance for the left midfielder of ours to destroy.

A big game of failure which was a result of bad decisions and bad players. Not all of them were bad, but a few underestimated the opposition.