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Ground control

Little Finger miscontrolled the ball and in doing so threw off the entire defense who was expecting his normally immaculate first touch to bring the ball down and shift it to the right before pushing back onto his left. The aforementioned move to the right never materialized and when the ball which should have been under control, kept fizzing across his body the defense were left stranded allowing Little Finger to pass the ball to the back post. He then proceeded to miskick the pass and it curved apologetically from left to right and into the back of the net past an equally stranded goal keeper.

That made it 3 - 0 and arrogance was rife amongst B5 as we started stroking the ball around the backline, maintaining possession and switching the play. Awesome stuff which quickly let to the score being 3- 2 with Bran being culpable in giving the ball away on both occasions.

With the last kick of the game, from a corner they had, the ball bounced perfectly in front of one of their midfielders on the edge of the box, unmarked of course, and he ripped a beautiful half volley that rippled the net. Fortunately it was the outside of the net and it ended 3 - 2. Get In!

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