Day#7 - Burned Out In More Ways Than One

The fact that the day very hot and humid (95% humidity) did not help with the fact that our Capitals were very tired and beat up.  The girls were very tired and some of the players were nursing injuries today (toes, calves, quads, stomachs, backs and heads).  I think everything has caught up with them (i.e. travel, time zones, food, previous match play and the excitment of the whole trip).  That said, we were not going to sit down and play without a fight. 
- Northern Viginia club is a good club (ranked 3rd) with a number of teams in the tournament
- they have a very fast and skilled team ... which we would soon learn
- play from the beginning was somewhat equal with the Majestics using their fast skillful midfielder to control the game and try to get balls to a couple of very fast players (a striker and outside right mid)
- we decided to play a high pressure game and go after them with a 3-4-3 (or more like a 3-4-1-2)
- the Majestics caught us twice not playing our usual solid positional soccer and placed a couple of long balls between & behind our defenders for their fast strikers and mids to run onto
- we did have chances by applying pressure to their defence who coughed up balls to us but for the most part we were not effective at capitalizing on the mistakes and getting a qualit shot on goal
- going into the halftime the score was 2-0 --> again the score was not fully indictive of the play ... they just capitalized on their chances better
- the second half was a little better for us, but again we could not finish

So our soccer is over for the trip and we have a day and a half to recover and do somehting fun with the girls.  Group decisions are getting harder as the girls get tired so we will probably make their minds up for them :-)

The weather has turned a bit sour (overcast, rain) so our trip to the beach was cancelled and it might be a free night to do what they want ... mall, hotel/swimming, movie, etc.

See pictures here ...