Taking on Mavinet who sat at 2-0-1 (W-D-L) and a team who were in a prime position to advance, The Moderately Sized Brains thought they were in for a challenge. Instead they outclassed The Water Buffaloes with relative ease. Barber's decision to role with the same starting XI after the 4-1 loss to Poafmersia is proving to have been a great decision as Kohnhead have played themselves back into the mix for advancing.
It didn't take long for our Moderately Sized Brains to strike with Finley scoring in the 12th minute off of a corner. Johnson the primary corner taker sent the ball into the box where Finley instead of using his head was able to jump up and kick it in right past Le Quang Tho for our first goal. We wanted to show that our win against Sharktail wasn't just a fluke performance.
It didn't take long for the equalizer to come though as in the 19th Ly Van Quyet sent a long ball down the line to Vu Hoang Khang who picked it up with some room, got around a defender and shot a laser at Sanders. Sanders made the save but Hoang Bao Lam was there to score the deflection to tie the game at 1.
The game didn't stay tied for long with just 7 minutes later in the 26th, Eric Ofofor got a nice goal to give our Moderately Sized Brains the 2-1 advantage. Georgia Manter who came up on the attack got the assist. Manter has had a poor tournament so this was good to see from her. The score stayed this way heading into halftime and we knew that if we could just keep up the pressure the game would be quickly over.
In the 52nd Finley got his brace with John Smith getting the assist. Smith made a move around Lam Tu Anh to get into the box and then passed it up to Finley who barely stayed onside. The defense didn't expect that and Finley could calmly hit it past Le Quang Tho to make the game 3-1.
Mavinet had one more good scoring chance in the 67th winning a corner kick but the header from Phan Dang Hoang Quan was just over the bar. Sanders would not have been able to get to it had she needed to.
Morgan coming on for Johnson would add a goal in the 77th to really put the game out of reach and it gave Kohnhead a good feeling to be winning 4-1 as they thought about their own poor performance against Poafmersia.
P Group G Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Paofmersia 4 3 1 0 16 7 +9 10 Q
2 Kohnhead 4 2 0 2 8 8 0 6
3 Sharktail 4 2 0 2 6 6 0 6
4 Mavinet 4 2 0 2 10 11 −1 6
5 Taeshan 4 1 2 1 4 4 0 5
6 Lovisa 4 0 1 3 8 16 −8 1 X
From the table we can tell that Poafmersia, the team that beat us 4-1 is already into the next round, and Lovisa sit at 1 point and have been eliminated. It's a four team race for second between us, Sharktail, Mavinet, and Taeshan. In our next match we take on last place Lovisa which does make us the favorites to advance. Sharktail takes on Poafmersia, and Mavient and Taeshan battle.
Our lineup against Lovisa will be the same. Here we go!