NW Phantoms 0 vs 0 Alton Pumas U13

A goalless draw with the team booed off the pitch and chants tomanagement of 'you don't know what you're doing' ringing out at RMS.

Or, what a terrifically spirited and hugely stubborn performance fromphantoms to gain a point against a physically gifted team in coldconditions.

In fact it was so cold at one point that we were huggingthe first aid ice packs to keep warm.

Phantoms started trying to play short passing football and quicklyfound that we were being outmuscled and losing the ball in areas ofthe pitch that were not ideal...

tactics were to try and play out towide areas of pitch...

scrappy first half up the slope.

Alton were playing through 11, with their tactic to cross ball early and overloadback post as our team drifted across.

Phantoms were quite comfortable,looking themselves to break with Alton playing a high line.

Second half we started poorly and lost a flurry of 50:50s...

carelessplay, losing the ball too easily, we were skating on thin ice.

We were dropping deep and had too much separation between def/midfield and attacking unit.

we almost nicked it at the end, the chance from inside the box going just wide...

Another clean sleet as we have now conceded just 5 goals in the last 6league games...

wow! That is the best defensive record in the division,sadly we cannot score freely and this is a slight problem.