Belmont vs Dalkey...tough day at the office (Loss 5- 1 )

Lets just say....another disappointing day at the office ....

The Dalkey team were well drilled and the Belmont team management failed to communicate simple objectives to the team which meant that Dalkey won the ball all too easily time and time again.

Belmont had to rustle up some new faces which in fairness made the task of integrating them into the team difficult. Paul , James and Tom all joined Belont for the day .

Belmnt started the match in a new formation with Conor in Goal , Luke and Tom in Defence , John and Cathal and Brian in Midfield and Marcus as a striker. We were missing Patrick and Jack and Mark. We kept Fiona and James in reserve.

Dalkey were well drilled and Belmont with new players were caught out by a skilful Dalkey side who managed to get goalside of the Belmont Defence and then caught out the fresh Belmont Pairing in Defence on five occasions.

It was another day for the Belmont management to rue their strategic mistakes. Marcus had to come back into midfield to close the gaps that Dalkey were taking advantage of in midfield and the uncertainty in defence drew our whole team into a morass of confusion with multiple Belmont players running aimlessly around our own box with no point man to clear the ball out to.

Once Dalkey had succeeded in drawing the entire Belmont team into defence it was simple task for them to continue to live around our goal mouth and take their chances well.

Belmont had a few bright moments during the match culminating in a fine lob from John Mulcahy which gave Belmont our only goal during the morning.

The lessons for management ? Many... from positional awareness to tactical use of substitutions.

'Nuff Said