Wolves Futsal For Futskills

☀️Warmish weather for our second matchup against Bassendean Caledonians, this time at their home ground, Jubilee Reserve. In our first meet, 😔Bassendean went down to ten players in the second half, losing two girls to injury. A comfortable 3/1 win for us resulted with fatigue being a partial factor.
This game Bassendean had a full bench to choose from👊. For us, still no Chelsea or Gabs, but we had the same compliment as last week’s match, with a change of timetable affording us the extra two players that would have been unavailable with the previously listed earlier kickoff💃. Good fortune for us with Bassendean having the seasons leading goal scorer in the lineup👏, one focus in our combative plan💪.
Making the match, 🥳Linda, Maddie, Lisa, Briar, Kid Kinkaid, The Roach, Di, G, Sal the Favourite, Renee, Clydesdale Jess, Little Jess, Red, Cheyenne and Shelberry.
Camera issues🙄 in the first fifteen minutes with over heating was annoying, with smoother sailing secured under the cover of shade. 🤔Probably a good thing too as the zoom would have been working overtime trying to capture Di’s one on one shot that sailed high over the cross bar, then bounced harmlessly off a Russian satellite, before burning up during re entry. Well that’s how some sports enthusiast commentated the play. 🤔I think it was Amir.
Anyway, she choked😬, 🤏plus their were also a couple non captured half chances by other players from both sides. 👏
Basso’s closest opportunity presented from a corner set piece, 😮being twice cleared off the line by Super G💪. With the chance gone, 🤦‍♀️Bassendean may have rued the miss when not long after, the Kid Kinkaid took on most of the defence🔥, coming out on top and sweetly secured the games opener.🥳
Shelby continued running havoc and causing all sorts of mischief up front😏, and another Bassendean set piece just needed a touch to find the net🤏, however it found its way through to Linda, who safely secured the attempt.👊
Amongst complaints of hardness🙅🏼‍♀️, next close call was Cheyenne, 😲who found herself inches away from scoring from a delicious Shelby through ball. Then right on the stroke of half time, 😰Callies looked to equalise when another goal mouth scrabble ensued, 👊once again our defence coming to the rescue.🤜🏿
The first decent chance after the restart fell the way of Shelby🤭, until the keeper mopped up the spill😫. Good hardness was flowing from both teams💪, however Sof’s muscle was a little too creative 🤔with her pressure on keeper Linda, when she tried to draw the game level. 😬No goal of course.
But Basso kept the pressure on 😰and had three quick opportunities in succession, pushing ever nearer to success🤏. Then the break through followed. 🥳From another corner play and a brief struggle for the pill, this time midfielder Milena coming up trumps👏 to the sound the home ground hoard healthily celebrating.🎉
Stalemate followed for the next ten minutes🤭, during which Maddie was subbed of with injury😔. Then half the onlookers sat stunned 😳with silence when in the blink of an eye, the other crowd chanted and cheered🥳💃 when the Cheeseballs took the lead once more. 🎉🎉
A ridiculous handball decision had incensed Di 😡more that the coach🤏😬, and perhaps still peeved from her woeful miss first half🤪, she took the gift to produce a “take that” moment, freely wording the phrase as she produced a gem👊. Ten seconds after the adjudicated foul restart, Di latched onto a lax Bassendean back pass, freeing Shelby ⚽️🏃‍♀️who got the jump on some loose marking. Driving toward the stricken Bassendean keeper, 🥳Shelbs skilfully tapped it around her for the tantalising tuck in finish🔥.
One calamitous moment 😲in the final period gave Basso a decent sniff of an equaliser to share the points🤏, and G had pushed hard with a Shelby run to try and extend the lead👏, but that was all she wrote and as the final whistle sounded, the double was complete.💃
It wasn’t the prettiest of football by our girls, being capable of more, and watching Bassendean’s midfield control much of the games tempo was impressive. However once again our defensive work, coupled with the teams desire to push til the end, kept the concession low on the scorecard and successfully added another three point to our impressive season’s tally.
Congrats to both teams on their seasons progressions.👏👏👏👏
Special mention for little Jess, 🙄who once again has been the victim of an, “I don’t know what happened” unmolested ankle injury event that plagues her🤦‍♀️. Jumping joyfully in an onfield mud puddle pre game🌧💩 - 6 weeks out. Falling off a table, 🍻drunk of course - 3 weeks. Pretending to 🤸🏼‍♀️parkour down stairs - 4 weeks. Mis kicking a h***y nut👩🏻‍🦽 - also 4 weeks. This game, 🤷‍♂️no idea what was going on there - tba weeks. 🤔Not bad for a couple seasons effort🙄.

Futsal for Futskills
Paul Carter
Head Coach

Been a long while since the last post, but rest assured there has been plenty of involvement throughout West Coast Futsal by at least a dozen of our girls, mixing it up at several venues.
With outdoor, our Ballajura ladies have so far exceeded expectations in the higher division, sitting poised in third position with over half way of the interrupted season behind them.
The camera was dusted off for our second lot of games against the teams in the division, with these snippets from our away game to Joondalup.
With a couple big names in Chelsea (broken wrist) and Gabs (screwed ankle ligaments) from the past weeks games, we would need to juggle a few positions to bolster our high hopes. Joondalup nicked the points in the first round in a tight 2/1 finish. Our girls were keen to reverse this one.
Little Jess and her rolled ankle was keen to add to the numbers, bravely joining Big Jess, Briar, Cheyenne, Linda, Renee, The Roach, Red, Di, Maddie, Lisa, Sal the Favourite, Kid Kinkaid, Screamin’ G and Shelberry.
The allocated ref never turned up and reffing duties were delegated to yours truly.
An early hand ball infraction against Shelby’s on target strike resulted in a penalty. From the spot kick, Shelby’s corner bound strike was almost denied by the keeper in her athletic attempt to save it.
A couple decent chances went begging for our ladies, and with a few decent forward surgesthemselves, Joondalup came close to opening their account.
When Renee found herself positioned well from an attempted clearance, she pounced and drove the ball firmly into the net from just inside the 18 yard box.

Early into the second period, after a nice forward movement which nearly looked stalled, Alyssa’s well weighted volley was enough to beat the outstretched arm of the keeper.
Despite a mounting forward half presence, the Joondalup defence denied a number of our girls' attempts on goal, plus a couple slightly wide of target shots missed the mark. Persistence paid off when Briar’s on target strike was deflected and took the ball away from the keeper, before striking the upright and going in.
The final goal came a few minutes after the crossbar had been hit from another nice forward play. Shelby was cocked to fire at goal when the ball was deliberately hand balled away from her strike path. Injured moments after the cry of the foul, Shelby was unable to take the spot kick. Di choked with buck fever at the opportunity presented, so Briar stepped up and securely found the corner.
In the final minutes, Joondalup had the better of the forward attempts, but the score remained 5 nil at the final whistle.
Well done to both teams and all involved.

Futsal for Futskills
Paul Carter
Head Coach

Footage comes from two games from the last two weeks, with several games not going ahead due to forfeits. Nothing to do with the Corona virus though.🙄
Carioca were due to play their semi final this week, however their opposition were unavailable. They will play the winners of the Pink Bits verses Nguyen’s Neymars which was a hotly contested game. Highlights in this mix.
The Locos played the White Ninjas this week, not filmed, the Ninjas fighting hard in the second half to comeback and level the match six all by the final whistle.
The first section of footage is from Sally’s Ninjas taking on Nguyen’s Neymars a fortnight ago. For the Neymars, Lisa, Briar, Shelby, Cheyenne and Maddie.
In a dominant display, the Neymars ran out 10/1 victors. Four goals to Shelby, a hat trick for Cheyenne, two to Briar and a solo for Lisa. Caroline scored for the Ninjas. Sally was solid in goal and foiled many Neymar efforts. Sadly, one of the Ninja chicks had to have her arm immobilised after hard contact with the turf, sustaining ligament damage.
The semi final between Pink Bits and Nguyen’s Neymars was set to be a tough affair for the Neymars, stranded with only four players available for the rest of the season. In this game, Lisa, Maddie, Shelby and Alyssa took to the field. For the Pinkies, Kylie, Little Jess, Chelsea, Super G, Dani and The Roach, all geared up and ready to work the Neymars ragged and breathless.
It started well for the Pinkies, peppering away at goal with ease, but unable to find the back of the net. The Neymars found their way into the game and broke the deadlock, with a cheeky little meg by Alyssa on keeper Dani.
The Pinkies responded quickly with Chelsea accurately popping one in off the post, then a couple plays later, Little Jess scored a spectacular with the head from a deft Dani side chip. Other chances fell for both teams, but strong keeping denied all, and at the half time hiatus, the Pinkies were one up.
In the second half, athletic saves by Lisa kept her Neymars in the hunt, and midway through the half, Alyssa answered the call and drew scores level. In a flash, the Neymars found themselves one up after Lisa’s long keeper throw saw Shelbs outwit Dani then tap home.
More keeper saves either end followed with both teams desperate to score. Would it be the Neymars with a two goal cushion, or the Pinkies to keep grand final hopes alive.
When Alyssa scored from Maddie’s sideline chip, all hopes look lost for the Pinkies. But with Ninety seconds to go, The Roach’s intercept and subsequent feed to Dani saw a quick counter finish, setting up and exciting last minute to the game. Would it go to penalties?

Futsal for futskills
Paul Carter
Head Coach