(05-29-2017, 07:02 PM)GI-Land Wrote: [Image: tcdiyoze.png]
by Mark Geffa
30th May 2017, 00:31 h

A tough Tournament - GI-Land 0:2 Rebeltopia

At first it looked like an evening, that couldn't be better. Mild temperatures were present in the Sedunnic stadium the game was played in, more than 9000 GI-landians travelled to the most eastern continent of Pacifica just to watch this showdown between their nation and Rebeltopia. The atmosphere was perfect. Everyone was happy and you could feel the electrisation in the air.
The teams got into the stadium and stood there in the row, as firstly the Rebeltopian anthem got played and afterwards the GI-landian one.
Full of pride it sounded like the entire stadium would chant the lines praising honor, freedom and respect.

The Starting XI of GI-Land

----------Berg-----Szalok---------
--------------Klehn-----------------
Pfaff----------------------Meissner
-------------Hertzog---------------
Stern----Vogel---Nadel----Wirth
-------------Springer--------------

Then the game started and it looked good at first for GI-Land. The Rebeltopians could get easily played out with the fast play and pressing the GI-landians did, yet the conversion of chances was horrible. Szalok alone shot in the first half 6 times on the goal, but either it got parried or it just missed its aim completely. Berg wasn't any better and so the first half not really showed anything from both teams.
After a short pause, the second half began and the Rebeltopians were like completely different in comparison to the first half. Now the pressing went against GI-Land. The situation of course couldn't get any better with missed passes in the midfield and suddenly Springer couldn't do any better and the ball was in the goal. After almost 60 minutes, the Rebeltopian team was in the lead.
Treyn thought, he could bring someone better and so replaced one of his attackers. Berg against Fujimoto and indeed the Atlantic-Japanese player was a bit safer in his play, but what should an attacker help, if the defense doesn't work right?
That was the train of though of Treyn too and so he brought Busch for Wirth and that should have been a horrible mistake.
Busch somehow couldn't really get into the game and took a pass from Springer at the border of the penalty area and hasn't noticed, behind him is a Rebeltopian player. He turns around, but it was too late. The Rebeltopian just shot at the goal and Springer was completely unprepared for this - The player of the opponent team seems to have been hidden behind Busch all the time.
After an additional time of 2 minutes, the game ended with a win for Rebeltopia: 2:0 (0:0).

We asked the GI-landian players, the coach and also the Leader, who was present too, what they thought of the game:

"We haven't made a good game here. The first half we had so many chances and just failed absolutely in using them and the second half just was a defense desaster. The thing with Busch and Springer maybe only was bad luck, but even that could have been better."
Juliusz Szalok

"I just haven't seen him. I don't know why, but I thought passing the ball to Busch would be safe and as I noticed this Rebeltopian it was already too late and I could only grab the ball behind me. That was just bad luck."
Christoph Springer

"I think, we just had situations, where we would have to make that goal and we haven't used them and I was furious about that, but could keep myself calm in the cabin during half-time, but maybe I should have let out my fury to the players. Perhaps that's what the Rebeltopian coach did and you could really see, how good they played in the second half. Regarding the Busch-thing, I still think, he's a good player, everyone got a bad day every now and then, it's just infuriating, it had to be today. Now we have to focus for the next game and show, what we got and win this thing."
Gianluc Treyn

"Of course there were games, we definitely played better, but I'm confident, we will win the next thing and I hope, I'll get to see another spectacle the next time too. A fight like today, maybe with a better outcome."
Gianluca IV.