Steve Adlard
Steve Adlard
Stephen Keith "Steve" Adlardis an English former soccer goalkeeper and cricketer...
avoid became came critical nightmare pressure time
It's a coach's nightmare when you go up 2-0. For 10 minutes, the pressure came and they scored their goal, and it became emotional. We were able to avoid anything else after that, but it was a critical time for us.
fights-and-fighting game goals looked offense spirited tough
It was a fighting, spirited game in tough conditions. We scored two goals and looked like we could have scored more. We got our offense started and that's encouraging.
lovely struck
It was a lovely goal, just textbook, really. It doesn't have to be struck hard.
boys dug frustrated red
I was frustrated the ref used the red card. But we did well, our boys dug in and I thought we got something out of it.
crashing home instead
He should have just eased it home instead of crashing it home.
boys came catch cleared decided dropped frustrated goal grow half limited mean penn punch scramble second state tried whatever wore
The more the second half wore on, the more we decided to consolidate what we had. That doesn't mean we dropped back, but when we got possession, we limited some of what we tried to do. Grow was in goal. He came out and cleared some things with a punch and a catch in the second half and their was one scramble in the goal mouth, but the boys absorbed whatever came their way. Penn State was frustrated all day.
certainly fights-and-fighting game goodness last minutes played quite spirited thank tough
Thank goodness in certainly the last 4 minutes they didn't get anything. It was a fighting, spirited game in tough conditions, but you know what? We played quite well.
half last normal second slowly surprised weaving
He's slowly weaving into his normal position. I was surprised he was able to last the whole second half and play well.
belong competing high level prove
It's a very high level to be competing with. To prove you belong is very encouraging.
dominated flow frustrated gives goal great half obviously played possession shots tried
We played a great first half and dominated play and possession and frustrated them in everything they tried to. I don't think they got into flow of game. Obviously with no shots on goal it gives indication.