Archive for February 5th, 2010

Flamengo escaped with a tie by the hair of their chinny chin-chin. Mengao in plain English played like crap. They stunk the joint out.

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By no stretch of the imagination Rubro-Negro should have lost to Olaria but lady luck was shinning on Mengao and we escaped with three all tie.

Us Flamenguistas are on to the semi finals of the Campeonato Estadual.

We started out behind the eight ball when Caca shred the Mengao defense to pieces. Caca left fly with a long-range bomb. The shot squeezed between Bruno’s out stretched hand and the crossbar in the 5^th minute to give Olaria the early 1-0 lead.

A minute later Olaria returned the favor by committing a stupid defensive error. Adriano out leaped three Olaria defenders. The Emperor nailed the header in the 6^th minute to tie this baby up at one all.

Juan set this goal up with a great run down the left sideline. Juan lifted a deadly ball into the box that found Adriano’s head.

The Olaria keeper Angelo never had a chance. He was hung out to dry.

Olaria had a chance to take the lead but Bruno stopped the all-important PK by Caca in the 53^rd minute.

This PK stop by Bruno turned out to be the save of the match.

If Olaria scored, Mengao would have lost.

This was the key moment of the match.

Mengao took the lead when Fierro stopped and popped a long ball floater into the box. All Vagner Love had to do was stick out his leg. He did. Goal for Mengao in the 56^th minute. Rubro-Negro is up 2—1.

But wait there was more to come.

Olaria played tick-tack-doe with the Flamengo “D”.  All Araruama had to do was ease the ball past a helpless Bruno in the 59^th minute for a two all tie.

Mengao played the famous Oh Lay defense. I like to call this the Swiss cheese “D”. Flamengo had more holes in the “D” than Carter has pills.

Bruno had a chance to stop the goal but his attempted kick save failed.

Five minutes later, 64^th minute, Olaria scored again.  Mengao was called for a penalty. This was a bogus call. Flamengo defender Toro barely touched Aleison.

For the life of me, there was no foul. Caca nailed the PK to give Olaria a 3-2 lead.

Enter Vagner Love to save Flamengo once again. Juan nailed a perfect ball in front of the goal. Love fired the bounce header past the keepers out stretched right hand. The ball squeezed just  inside the right post to tie this baby up at three all in the 82^nd minute.

Once again, the Mengao played like crap.

The Defense needs lots of work. Yes, Petkovic and several key players are missing.

This situation needs to be worked out before we begin the Campeonato in May.

If not we will be on the short end of the stick.

We can’t let these smaller teams push us around.

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