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2nd XI v FC BIOLLET ST MAURICE 12th DECEMBER 2009
With several small villages in the area each of them having a football team usually consisting of players of the same age range who probably all went to High School together, many of these matches are ... errrr ... keenly contested. Matches against St Priest are best played in midwinter when the heat given off from the football field can warm up a frozen crowd and thaw out an icy pitch, but matches against Biollet St Maurice can have their moments too.
And it's the middle of December too. It seems just about the right time of year for this game.
Pionsat pile the pressure onto Biollet St Maurice right from the kick-off. There's a good move down the left wing where the winger takes on the defence and as he draws them all out to him he puts in a good lob right over the top into the empty space in the centre of the field.
Sébastien comes running in more-or-less unmarked and gets his foot to the ball but he can only manage to put it wide of the post.
Pionsat, still on the attack, win a free kick just outside the penalty area. It's taken by Sébastien who puts it over the wall and drops it right at the feet of the goalkeeper at the near post.
Having carefully read my notes from last week three of the Pionsat forwards go sliding in all at once on the ball in case of fumbles or rebounds and one of the Biollet defenders has a Pionsat player sliding in on his leg that causes him quite a bit of pain. Pionsat were very close to scoring then and I'm glad that they are showing more aggression up front. They need to make much more of these half-chances.
Pionsat's opening goal is an absolutely beautiful, beautiful goal. There was a peach of a ball from midfield that cleared the entire defence and played Sébastien on into open space all on his own with just the keeper to beat. The keeper ran half-out, whether to try to put him off or to try to narrow the angle but Sébastien simply lifted the ball over him into the empty net.
And it's a shame that I didn't get a photo of that. This camera is too slow to react in the doom and gloom and I need to work out the manual lens.
And Pionsat concede an equaliser and again its due to some hesitancy in their defence. They hang onto the ball when they should have cleared it upfield and someone from Biollet nips in in front of them and wins the ball. He's all on his own with Michael who is left stranded by his defence and Biollet score.
And all this time the linesman has his flag raised and he, the Pionsat players and the crowd shout at the referee. The referee eventually glances up at the linesman, sees the flag raised .... and gives the goal. What can you say?
But it's not long before Pionsat retake the lead and it's a goal out of nothing. From about 25 yards out one of the Biollet players under not very much pressure somehow managed to get underneath the ball and hoofs it out for a corner. I'm not sure whether it was supposed to be a backpass to the keeper, a kick to touch or what it was.
The Pionsat no10 puts in a good hard corner that comes screaming into the penalty area. It's heading straight for the goalkeeper's chest so he duly waits for the ball to arrive so that he can clutch it safely. Just as the ball is about to slam into the keeper's hands one of the Pionsat players slides in in front of him and chests it into the net and that was that.
They have indeed been reading my notes from the Beauregard game. And quite right too.
The second half gets under way with Sébastien straight away on the attack. He strings his way through the defence and tries to pass the ball to a colleague but it rebounds back to him. Taking the hint, he goes on alone and runs straight through the defence, riding a couple of despairing tackles and gets in a shot on goal.
Unluckily the shot goes into the side netting. It deserved better than that.
Late in the game Pionsat score a third goal, which is probably the most extraordinary goal that I have seen for quite some time, and I've certainly seen a few in the Puy-de-Dome League.
Christophe who has just come on and is playing up front goes chasing after a ball but the ball falls kindly for Sébastien who controls it well. He goes to pass it to Christophe but completely miskicks it and the ball runs behind him. Christophe somehow swings his leg out behind him and half-falling over, half losing his balance, and half being pushed I suspect, manages to hook it round and slot it into the corner of the goal past a startled keeper.
I've no idea how he actually managed to do all of that all at once. It really was surprising.
And so we ended up bogged down in a mid-table morass and fracass (with the emphasis on the "ass") in a match that was surprisingly bad-tempered - the lowlight of several lowlights being how the Biollet goalkeeeper, objecting to a late tackle, grabbed hold of one of the Pionsat players half his size by the throat.
And I do not remember Michael in the Pionsat goal having anything to do in this match except pick the ball out of the net that once and to take a couple of goal kicks.
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