MAZARRON FC v EMF FUENTE ALAMO

FINAL SCORE

MAZARRON FC 2 v EMF FUENTE ALAMO 2

Without doubt Mazarron FC have the quality of players to "see off" teams like Fuente Alamo. As you look around the pitch you would think to yourself "why aren't we a table topping side?" and in truth I just don't know the answer to this question.

OK, we were missing Alfonso, the guy who not only pulls the strings but also can score excellent goals and also Juanillio was suspended but that didn't give the rest of the team the excuse to play well, well below par.

Take the first goal, which was scored by the away team within 4 minutes from the start. Rubens, who was between the stick for this game (why?) walked miles off his line and along with a number of defenders watched as a soft ball literally dribbled over the line. Where was the commitment, what was Rubens doing going "walkabout" in his own area?

Mazarron then proceeded to squander chance after chance with poor shooting, miss kicking the ball and headers sailing high and wide instead of going into the empty goal. It took Dani, the left back, to show the rest the way with a headed goal from a corner. If the score was 6-1 at half time it would have been a true reflection of the chances Mazarron had to take this game by the scruff of the neck and shake it. But the team went in at half time at the scores level at 1-1

We actually thought that Antonio, the manager, had thrown a few bricks about the dressing room during the break as straight from the kickoff Tolo took on 4 defenders and buried the ball into the back of the net, surely the flood gates would now open but almost immediately the home side slipped back into the bad old ways of the first half and just sat back and allowed Fuente Alamo to come forward.

That's not saying that yet again this was a second half of missed chances, schoolboy errors and just poor finishing. It wasn't until Randry came on for the angry Moho, who was no to please to be substituted, that Mazarron woke up, but he couldn't do it all on his own.

As the clock ticked down to the end Mazarron sat further and further back and it became a shooting gallery for Fuente Alamo and from one opportunity the ball bobbled around the box, took a deflection, hit the post and went in.

There was still plenty of time for Mazarron to waste 3 golden chances to take all three points but they were all wasted.

Final score Mazarron FC 2 Fuente Alamo 2

I often go on about our friends, the match officials, but in this case he was excellent throughout with only a couple of bookings for Fuente Alamo and NONE for Mazarron.
He was even handed to both sides and allowed the game to flow, but he did miss a couple of hand balls in the area, 3 for Mazarron and one blatant one which should have resulted in a Fuente penalty, but he either missed them all or believed them all to be "ball to hand" and nothing was awarded, but besides that I hope we have him again.