just heartbreaking to see Smith suffer such a bad injury. I think her special talents unfortunately expose her to more risk of dangerous tackles, because she is so good at breaking through the line of back defenders with her foot skills and burst of speed, then they are desperate to take her down because they know she will score 1-on-1 with the GK. Versus some of our other players who tend to score with an open long-range shot.
There were times when 6 of our 10 field players were all frosh or sophomores, including all 3 forwards. Just harder to score when so many are injured, the timing and passing has to be so consistently excellent to get a goal (unless it's just a brilliant solo effort, which we also get from Smith and Macario in particular). We're going to need people to step up on Sunday, and an airtight defensive effort especially against their tall star player, Korniak, who I'm thinking Alana needs to shut down on set pieces.
There were times when 6 of our 10 field players were all frosh or sophomores, including all 3 forwards. Just harder to score when so many are injured, the timing and passing has to be so consistently excellent to get a goal (unless it's just a brilliant solo effort, which we also get from Smith and Macario in particular). We're going to need people to step up on Sunday, and an airtight defensive effort especially against their tall star player, Korniak, who I'm thinking Alana needs to shut down on set pieces.