South Island School 1-1 St. Joseph's

On a beautiful day for sports, a close game against St. Joseph's ended 1-1.  We did not lose this time and gave another good fight, but it was unfortunate that we could not grab a win. I played as a centre-back and gave a solid performance. Making vital clearances with my head, playing aggressively against dribbling attackers and even giving a brilliant long through ball to the right winger. But there was nothing we could about the early goal that they had scored.

It had been about ten minutes in the game and we were playing confidently and dominated in possession. We passed the ball around, weren't troubled in defence and had the upper hand. But a 30 metres half-volley goal by the other team really was a blow to us. It may have been lucky but you couldn't deny that it was a great shot. There was nothing we could have done to stop the goal. But that's football for you.

The goal did demotivated us at first, but we kept fighting and in the second half we were rewarded a goal after a headed pass was converted with a volley. We weren't finished yet though, we kept pushing and going for the goal and had a glorious opportunity when one of my team mates tried for a long shot after the keeper came up which just skimmed the post. I thought that was the one last opportunity and that we blew it. After that shot, I thought it was unfair that the game was going to end 1-1. But, by the end of the game we could have considered ourselves lucky to have drawn since the opposition hit the crossbar from a one on one situation and at another moment the keeper had to scramble to get the ball while three attackers tried to score from close range. The dying minutes of the game were surely an eventful one.

Although we were lucky not have conceded a goal at times, it was disappointing that we didn't win especially with all the corners we had. I believed that we were bound to convert at least one of them but it never happened. The chances of making it out of the group stage is becoming very slim now, but we will keep working hard to win our remaining games.