Basically everyone on our team was injured so we only had a few subs available for the Juventus encounter ... ironic given the fact that we had about twenty subs for the first game of the season. Juventus were a scary prospect having not dropped a point and sporting a healthy goal difference. All in all there should have been some trepidation on our part ... but there was not ... no siree!
The Everett pitch was top notch with perfect, new, freshly mowed and watered artificial turf and a capacity crowd of perhaps six. We assembled for the 8am kick off with our new silky shirts and Stanley Matthew replica shorts made of jute. We played rather well right from the off and Caino smartly banged two into the back of the old onion bag in short order ... probably mirroring his tally from his sexual onion bag earlier in the morning! Juve luckily pulled one back before the half and managed another in the second half. However, and I cannot stress this enough (although I have been told a million times, not to exaggerate) ... we played well throughout and gave them quite a lot to think about and we put the cat amongst the pigeons and the mongoose amongst the cobras. The passing was crisp and accurate and we carved out multiple chances that should have won us the game. Overall they were skillful and they had a whippet of a forward but we matched up well. Ilya B was a colossus between the pipes despite playing with a broken digit.
Overall it felt like we should have won the game but taking a point was OK. Tom provided the post game victuals that were gobbled up by the hungry horde.
In conclusion I am suggesting that perhaps the tide has turned for us?
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