Right now you are probably thinking, "Huh? I thought St. Faiths already did the tournament and were runners-up to St. Johns." Well, St. Johns were disqualified after they won the tournament because of their over age player, so the semi-finalists and the team that moved up from St. Johns' group to take their place played against each other to decide who would go to the East playoffs. Since only three teams showed up, we all played the other two teams and the Cambs winner would be decided by goal difference.
First, we played Saffron Walden. They lost to us in the normal tournament semi-finals, and the outcome in today's game proved similar, with our team winning 3-0. However, our coach told us that we could have played even better. All the training we had done on defending and utilizing set pieces paid off.
We then faced Rackham, who have an electric centre-half (by this, I mean he has very, very good control over the ball when he has it) who proved almost impossible to tackle. During the match, we held him off maybe a bit better than last time, but not enough to prevent him from scoring the winning, and only, goal of the match. We had plenty of times in which we could have converted chances at goal, too, but sadly, they were of no use to us.
While the team were playing around with some hockey balls and shooting at the spare goals, we stole some glances at Saffron Walden losing 2-1 to Rackham. Rackham went to the Eastern playoffs for the second year in a row and we ended up with the same runners-up medals that we had been awarded earlier.
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