Play Well and Lose, Play Poorly and Win!

Tale of two games!

Barça came away from the last two games against Richmond United and Surrey Selects showing the best of themselves (and losing a match they had no business losing) and the worst of themselves (and winning a match they had no business winning). Both games were against teams that have been doing quite well in the league and were always going to be tough but as many Premiership teams can attest, the game(s) don't always go the way they are suppose to go.

Against Richmond United, the Barça boys showed that they can be one of the best teams in the league with their fluent passing and stingy defense. While limiting Richmond to only a handful of chances (3 actually) Barça created at least SIX clear cut chances to sink a strong Richmond team that sat in 3rd spot in the league standings.

Richmond scored on two of their chances including an offside play where a Barça player was wrongly penalized for a high foot clearance in the box and Richmond were awarded an indirect free kick 10 feet out from goal!

The Barça boys only scored on one of their six glorious chances. As much as the referee made the wrong call on one of the Richmond goals, we didn't score on our chances and thus we must share the blame! The goal was scored by Giordano Baldenero from a terrific and delicate cross from Ryan Mobilio.

Ever the other way around, Barça finally was on the other end of a result that they probably don’t deserve against a very good Surrey Select team.

Thanks to 3 goals from Rashaun Rivers, Barca knocked off an older, bigger Surrey team that had brought down 4 players from their ’95 ‘A’ team for the match.

Kyle Jones scored the other goal from the penalty spot.

At one point Barça was winning 3-1 before letting Surrey back into the game. Barça had a chance to make it 4-2 when Giordano Baldenero scored on a second PK but the ref called it back for encroachment when one of our players was pushed into the area before the kick was made. The second shot was saved and brought a 'dead in the water' Surrey team to life! All hands on deck was the call of the moment and real heart was needed to get anything out of the game.

Barca did not play very well but thanks to Rivers last minute volley, Barça was able to steal the 3 points that in other games were stolen from them!

The Barça lads now move on to play Alouette Ultra next Saturday at home.