BARCELONA 4 - 3 JUVENTUS
Rather than play our Arrows V Bees league match we mixed things up with a mini tournament and short matches which will be the format for future competitive tournaments.
Nick was Manager of Barca
Chris was Manager of Real
Rob was Manager of Juve
The Group stage results were as follows:
Barcelona 2 - 0 Real Madrid
Barcelona 2 - 1 Juve
Real Madrid 1 - 3 Juve
This meant that the final was Barcelona V Juventus. Real Madrid's players were transferred across to the other teams to give us a 20 minute final on a bigger pitch.
Chris was sacked by Real Madrid but picked up a coaching job with Barca!
The first half was dominated by Barca whose tiki-taka football meant they went 2-0 up. During the break coach Rob got his Juve players together and commented that Barca were already celebrating.
A change in formation with Oliver going further forward to join Yazan brought Juve level 2-2 and then remarkably Oliver scored with 2 minutes to go for what surely was the winner!?
Unbelievably Henry (aka Lio Messi) got Barca level with 30 seconds to go. The coaches were shaking hands thinking a 3-3 draw would mean everyone was happy. Henry though had other ideas as he picked up the ball 25 yards out, jinked and span in the box before hitting the winner with the last kick of the match!
Player of the Tournament went to Henry, for obvious reasons! Other notable performances were Frankie with a great goal, Samuel with two against Madrid, Yazan with three against Madrid and Oliver B for two in the final.
All the boys played really well and the passing from our Arrows and Bees was superb.
Good fun and we will do it again next time we are drawn in the league.
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