Atlas Beats Cucuy in Penalty Shoot-Out

Atlas FC - Cucuy FC 6:5 (1:2)

What a game. Too bad we lost in the end. But let's start at the beginning. With chances on both sides, I think we scored first: A foul right outside the box. Scott sets it up, but Javier, who was kind of lingering on the side, runs up and scores. Nicely done. Then Atlas tied the game with just a few minutes to half. But we come back with a sweet setup from Hintzki on Scott, who chases down the ball and puts us ahead 2:1 at half.

Second half Atlas really started pushing, figuratively and literally. Our defense started working really hard, and kept the 2:1 for a pretty long time. Then Schluni went for the ball inside the box and the Atlas player went down way to easy. The ref called it, but luckily put it outside the box. I guess one bad call deserves another. Just minutes later, the same player went down WAY to easy again, this time definitely outside the box, but the ref called a penalty. Cinquo de Mayo all over again. Atlas's keeper scored and tied the game. This gave Atlas the momentum, and things turned a bit ugly. One guy tried to pick a fight with Andrew, who didn't mind that all for breakfast, and being about a head and a half taller.  Just seconds later one of us got taken down pretty rough, and the guy saw his second yellow. From then on it was all defense and time wasting on the side of Atlas. They got one more attack, which they unfortunately used to score the 3:2. We pushed and pushed, and finally, with maybe a minute left, after some scrambling in the box and a setup from CNate, Hintzki scored the tying goal. Totally awesome. We could have even scored the winner a minute later, but Javier tried a difficult shot instead of passing to the completely open Andrew, who almost took a bite out of the lawn after that.

Penalties. Brent and Cary scored, and thanks to Kyle, Atlas missed 3. But we also missed 3, so we went to sudden death.  Atlas scored, then Hintzki missed, bummer.

Goals: Javier, Scott K., Dave H., Brent, Cary
MVP: Dave H.