Tuesday afternoon we suffered our first away loss of the season as we were defeated by Hood College 2-1.
I thought we had a decent focus in warm-ups, but we came out a little complacent in our speed of play and we lost focus on an early set piece.
Just six minutes into the game Hood was awarded a corner kick. They won the first ball at the near post with a flick and then beat us to the second ball for the games first goal. That's a play where we need to be more engaged and cannot get out worked in our own box.
Guy Nabo scored his team leading 5th goal of the season just two minutes later when he out muscled a Hood defender for a loose ball in the box and slotted home the shot.
Later in the half a Hood defender miss-hit a cross and the ball sailed to the back post and went in just over the out-stretched arms of goalkeeper Hassan Mostafa. It was just one of those goals where there is nothing that could have been done about it.
The second half we came out and controlled the tempo of the game. Hood was limited in their possessions in our half of the field. We possessed well, we switched the point of attack well, but we struggled to create genuine scoring opportunities.
The Hood defenders worked extremely hard and blocked several shots with their bodies and caught our guys mid swing and stuffed several shots before we could get them off. We finally thought we had gotten one back when KJ Davis directed in a header from Kelvin Tata, but he was ruled off-sides. The video was in-conclusive, but it looks like KJ's run was made from behind the ball.
We need to forget about this game and get focused on our CAC opener when we will face a much improved Marymount team this Saturday at 7:30pm at Long Bridge Park in Arlington, VA.
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