vs MTA 08 ECNL

Scrimmage | Sunday, Aug 29 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM

The idea today was to use this scrimmage to work on our team defending, prepping for a possible ECNL match up this year vs a team with a talented triangle of central midfield players.

The 08 ECNL team plays in a 4-3-3, and the 3 starting mids (Ellen, Lou, and Skylar) are studs. Athletic, technical, and tough.

In our 4-3-3, our 3 central players can’t match up 1 to 1 on these 3, due in large part to the year in age difference and the physical development gap and year makes.

So we need to find ways to counter that.

One option would be to move to a 3-4-3 and try to get an extra player in the center of the field. Risk here is that it opens us up to 1-on-1 match ups in our backline against their 3 forwards.

The more reasonable option in my mind was to talk to our wing forwards and look to get them tucking back and in to our midfield when we didn’t have the ball.

Here’s the pre-game talk, halftime talk, and a few highlights.