Three quick goals kill off WMFC

West Mifflin Football Club 2-5 Sporting Club of Pittsburgh

0-1 Some Guy (25)
1-1 Baguet (50)
2-1 Some Guy (60)
3-1 Some Guy (62)
4-1 Some Guy (65)
4-2 Drewski (71)
5-2 Danzey (og)(75)

Formation: 4-4-2

Lineup: Vargo; Danzey, Eton, Kutscher, Dalibor; Baguet, Pcholinski, Reed, Stinner; Volk, Daveon

Bench: Stafura, Lacock, Drewski, Sax, Hasson.

Last season, West Mifflin FC went to Schenley Park and handed Sporting Club a hard-fought 5-4 loss. This season, West Mifflin FC SUCKED. Almost every aspect of the Blues' game was terrible. The defense had more holes than Swiss Cheese, the midfield looked lost, and the strikers couldn't have kicked a ball into the Mon if they had been swimming in it. Save for a good 15 minute spell in the firsl half, WMFC looked like an Under-8 squad.West Mifflin had many chances early on before Sporting took the lead. On one chance, which because of a traumatic accident this weekend that has crippled your beloved Blues Reporter's writing hand is the only one I can remember, a long cross was played into the box and deflected off of a defender to Stinner. He contemplated trying some ridiculous shot (which no doubt he would have put in because he is the best of all time but he wants others to have a shot) he took a more practical approach and headed the ball into the path of an on-streaking Volk who tore into the box but rifled the ball wide. Then, Reed found himself in some space at the top of the box (impossible! he's far too large!) and let fly with a hard shot that took a deflection off of a defender. It looked as though it had beaten the keeper but the cunt reached back in time to flip the ball over the bar for a corner. The keeper had an excellent game, however, 98% of his saves were on shots directly at him. Hmmm. Shot location. Seems like something that could be addressed at, ohh I dunno...practice? But who needs that?

Anyway, Reed's corners fucking blew....big time. It appeared that he, along with fellow midfielder, Matthew Alan had a case of Beach Foot. Baguet was diagnosed mid-game with the more severe rendition of the disease, the Aruba-Right-Foot Disease. Reed's corners skied over the net and often never even entered the field of play and Baguet's shots landed everywhere but anywhere near the net.

Eventually, Sporting fought up the field and won a corner. One of the blokes snuck behind the goal and made his way around to the other side, dipping below the WMFC defense radar. The ball came in from the corner on the ground, through all of the WMFC defense right to the foot of Some Guy #1 who put it into the net. Poor defending. That did it for the scoring in the first half.

WMFC took just about ten minutes to level the score with Baguet blasting home the equalizer. Daveon made a nice move with Baguet on the left side and then the short-one made a run to the the box. Daveon played the ball across and sent his foot through the ball. Hard. Mike Stafura described the goal like this:

"Well, it was a good thing the net got in the way of that shot."

With the score even West Mifflin pressed to take the lead and it caused them to look bare at the back. The ball bounced to Eton who instead of hoofing the ball either up the field or out of play decided to lay the ball to the middle of the field in the direct path of an on-rushing striker who promptly dribbled in and slid the ball past Vargo for a 2-1 Sporting lead. The goal scorer this time is a Carnegie Mellon student?/alum? that graduated from...McKeesport High School. Yeah, I don't understand how that is possible either. A bunch of other stuff happened and about two minutes later Sporting scored again. Kutscher tried to rush up and meet the ball but it bounced over his head. That allowed the Sporting goal scorer to glide in and put the ball into the net. Then, when it seemed that WMFC had learned from their defensive woes, a Sporting player was allowed to dribble down the middle of the field and for the first time in his goalkeeping career, loft the ball over Vargo. Three quick goals left the Blues and the reported 25,000 supporters (they must have been in their cars or hiding in the woods) stunned like Joe Louis Arena in Game 5. '

It was all but over at this point. West Mifflin pulled one back later on through Drewski from inside the six from a Baguet corner, only to have it erased on a Danzey own goal. The striker came down the right side and took a shot across the line. It bounced off the defender and went into the net securing the points for Sporting. Fuck.

This game sucked and to make it worse, only a few hours afterwards I damn near chopped my fucking right middle finger off by saving a little girl from a dog attack ~ OR ~ by sticking my hand in a mulching chute while the lawnmower safety bar, designed to prevent accidents such as this, was being held in (by me) thus keeping the blade-a-buzzin'. Don't judge me.

West Mifflin FC's next game is Sunday, June 7th against Internationals UPG at 10:30a in Plum.