Rochester Pride - RSC Lightning '96

In what is developing into a characteristic manner for this team, Pride dominated play winning possession, controlling the play with good use of space and good passing, and relentless pressure on the attack. The effort yielded 29 shots and a 3-0 victory. Once again, Pride’s defense set the tone for victory allowing only one shot the entire game and keeping the ball contained to the attacking portion of the field. Congratulation go out to Kandyse Fee and Kelsey Van Maele for picking up their first assists of the season on Lindita’s goal. Kelsey mad a great serve to red zone from a wide position on the right wing and then Kandyse one timed that serve across the face of the net where Lindita was able to finish. Also, congratulations to Ali for her 1st goal of the season on a perfectly placed penalty kick. Very focused. Very disciplined. And a lovely shot. Despite the excellent showing there are several point of play upon which we must improve. While it is true we are making good use of width and continue to gat better at it, I am noticing that we tend to use the width only to one side of the field for long stretches of time. I would like for us to improve totally switching the point of attack from left to right then back again as the play area becomes congested. We largely ignored the left side of the field today and there were many opportunities available there. Also, we were less disciplined about getting the ball across the face of the net once we were in the red zone today than we were yesterday. We started to revert back to those tiny little meaningless 2-3 yard passes just a little bit – not horribly and not throughout the game, but in a few little stretches. We just need to refocus on finding the strong service in the red zone. But there is one major problem on this team that must be put to a stop right now. And that is the persistent lack of attention and confusion on substituting. Such mistakes are entirely unacceptable because they have nothing to do with skill or lack of skill, they have nothing to do with the opponent forcing us into this situation. These problems are nothing less than just not paying attention and not thinking or understanding your assignment. They make the entire team look very, very bad – not to mention they put the entire team in jeopardy. There is absolutely no excuse for not calling off your substitute. And there is absolutely no excuse for not understanding what position you are being asked to play… and it WILL come to an end this week. Finally, congratulations to our goalkeepers Jessica & Melissa for their 3rd shutout. Goalkeepers: Melissa Anderson, Jessica Munson Goals: Ali Vogt (PK) 23rd min Lindita Ivezaj, (Kandyse Fee, Kelsey Van Maele) 32nd min Lindita Ivezaj, (unassisted) 62nd min Shots recorded: 29 Corner Kicks: 16 Crosses: 14