Eagles Crash Land!

Report By El Gato!

" This one is for the record books "

Great played game and a well deserved win for Madison Celtic on their last indoor game of the season. Final score 8-5 against the best indoor team, Guilford Black Eagles. Quick goal by Carlito at the beginning of the game was highlight of a wonderful match starter. However, it did not take long for Guilford attackers to put an equalizer pass, still sleepy from previous game, El Gato. Some sloppy plays and too many red shirts unmarked gave an advantage to the Guilford team and Madison finished the first half trailing 4-2. The second half was another story. Great defensive plays by Tom and Dejan and tight coverage by Ronildo, Carlito and Drew definitely choked the Guilford offense. Not to mention great saves by El Gato giving another dimension to the game. Madison was on fire, fantastic passing and great control of the game in midfield by Ronildo and Carlito gave great momentum to the game and Guilford goalie was bombarded by goals from Ruben and Halil. In second half Madison scored 6 goals and allowed only one unfortunate own goal from a defensive deflection. Great performance guys and great finish of the indoor season.

Report By Roniildo!

The Eagles Landed……with a big THUD!

Although our results in indoor this session have been mixed, we finished very strong tonight with a thoroughly deserved 8-5 win over the Guilford Eagles…Well done bhoys!

We lined up with Tom, Carlos in the back, Halil, Bambi and Roniildo in the middle, with Ruben and Dejan up front, and of course with El Gato in goal after his amazing performance last week:o). We came out of the blocks with some blazing paced runs and excellent passing between Carlos, Halil, Ruben and Dejan, which stunned the Eagles with 2 early strikes from Ruben and Carlos: 2-0 Celtic. I think we were also dazed by how easy it seemed for us to penetrate and score on what is usually a stalwart Eagle s defense. We either got a little complacent, or were daydreaming about why all the Guilford squads are named after birds (Eagles, Hawks…Chickens), but we lost our way, and 4 quick goals from them brought us back to reality. Dejan pulled deeper into midfield, and we organized into a man to man defense, as we realized we were giving them too much time on the ball, hence the reason for their easy goals. This worked really well, and we shut down their offense, and through hard work and patience we added another two to finish the half at 4-4.

The second half saw Celtic start very aggressive, as in the first half. The potent combination of speed and accurate passing all the way from Tom, Carlos and Dejan in defense through Bambi and Roniildo in midfield created easy scoring chances for Halil and Ruben who never missed in front of goal tonight! We poured in four more, with Eagles only managing the one in the second half to end the season in awesome style. Halil’s boot camp training is really paying off, with an outstanding performance tonight. that in my humble opinion, just pipped Tom or Carlos for man of the match!!! Key to tonight’s victory was definitely organization and structure, with every man doing his job and not wandering out of position. Great effort lads! Some of us were so pumped we stayed on to play with “the other” Madison team, and pummeled the Durham team, usually our Celtic nemesis.

In the end this indoor season, we played 13 (6 wins and losses and 1 tie), scoring 83 and losing 67….great effort boys.