FIRST LOSS!!!

Summary of the match against Harun Boys by Ferdinand :

" Hi Vanilla Stars,

Unfortunately the match didn't turned out as we planned it to be. Even 

though every player gave his best, it was not enough to bring home a 

victory. Haruna boys had 14 players whereas we started with 8 players 

where one got already injured after five minutes. This meant the rest 

of the players had to play through the remaining time and the stamina 

wasn't strong enough to turn the game around to our advantage and we 

lost finally 28:25.

Chinese New Year and its holiday season left his marks and it was clear 

that we will have a shortage of players for this match. Therefore I 

would like to say a big thank you to Seyed, (goalkeeper) , Nicholei and 

Inglewar, who helped us to fill our ranks on a short notice. 

Considering that Seyed never new and played handball before, Nicolei has

still many years as junior ahead and Inglewar wanted to be only our

substitute they did a great job. Also a special thanks to Roland who

arrived from a business trip this morning and came nearly straight from

the airport to the OCM building. Unfortunately he picked up an injury early

in the game, which sidelined him for the rest of the match. Roland, hope the

injury isn't so serious and I wish you all the best.

Harun boys got a better start and took a 3:0 lead as we still struggled 

the first few minutes in organizing ourselves. Roland than opened the 

scoring for us and we were able to equalize. Though we had our chances, 

but we didn't capitalize on them and therefore we were soon trailing a 

2 to 3 goal lead of Harun boys. Just before halftime we could shorten the

difference to one goal, but a few small unfocused moments let Harun 

boys took a 13:11 lead into halftime.

Again Harun boys got a better start into the second half and even had 

very quickly a five goal lead (16:11). With a team effort we fought 

back and could again catch up to a one goal difference (17:16), but now

the game took its toll and not much power was left in us for the last 15

 minutes of the match. Easy goals were scored now on both sides and 

Harun boys finally utilized on their advantage that they could change and

rest their players whereas we had to play most of the match without 

substitute. Nevertheless we put up a good fight with some good moves 

and nice goals even though we never played or trained before in this 

formation.

Scoreboard: Ferdi D.: 4, Romain: 13, Ferdi O.: 5, Roland, Gonzague and

Nicholei 1 each "

Blogger's note :

To Vanilla Stars :

• So sorry I wasn't able to make it for the game. Due to exams I'll be missing the next game as well.
  

• Just a note to say that based on results last year, both Kinta and KL Stars are very unlikely to drop any games ( apart from the occasion when they play against each other ) enroute to the finals.
  

• We'll want to make sure they lose their games when they play against us!!!