AOSR Tournament: AMBRIT Wins all Six Matches!

 Ambrit's g8 team rode into Roma Nord on Saturday morning and swept aside all opposition with a powerful display of teamwork that netted 31 goals in 6 games, conceding just 2.

Here is the story of the day....

Chapter 1: Hitting the post

Having established an early lead over Southlands 'A' with goals from Pedro and Zach, Theo was forced into an impressive double save to keep his team in front. Alberto hit the post, Zach scored again (kind of...), then he hit the post just before the end; good start... Ambrit 3-1 Southlands 'A'.

Chapter 2: Jonah takes Centre Stage 

Mattia was often Ambrit's fastest starter and he opened the scoring here: Brother Zach turned assisit-man and set up Theo and Pedro for goals two and three. And then Jonah took over. In an extraordinary 10' of inspired play, Jonah banged in four goals one after the other to the immense joy of his team-mates and supporters. With the opposition stunned into submission, Bertie applied the final, killer touch: Ambrit 8-0 Southlands 'B'.

Chapter 3: Stepping on Acorns 

Ambrit were caught napping at the start of this game but luckily Theo was awake and made a great save to keep the score at 0-0. The Bentsons then crafted one of the day's most beautiful goals: Mattia met Zach's perfect pass with a crisp first-time shot right into the corner of the net. Santi passed to Pedro for goal no. 2 and Zach passed to Santi for no. 3. Santiago added two more and Giorgio got onto the scoresheet for goal no. 6: Ambrit 6-0 Acorn.

Chapter 4: Botta e risposta... e poi qualche botta

This might have been a difficult game but Ambrit were now on a roll, in the zone and pretty unstoppable. Giorgio scored again and Alberto played in Zach for a second. Zach's throw produced a third when Alberto knocked it over the line and Pedro scored a fourth. Finding themselves 0-4 down, AOSR got a bit more physical but Ambrit matched them on the ball and off the ball and Alberto curled an exquisite fifth goal around the defender to give the goalkeeper no chance. Jonah, hungry for more goals, added a sixth. Ambrit 6-0 AOSR.

Chapter 5: San Giorgio 

New School maybe gave us our toughest game of the day... let's call them the dragon. No problem, we've got San Giorgio: he scored the first, set up the second (Zach) and the third (Zach), scored the fourth, set up the fifth (Pedro) and then used his psychic powers to help Alberto to score the sixth. Ambrit 6-0 New School.

Chapter 6: Inside Out

The last game of the day was against St. George's. Like us, they wear a red and blue jersey. They kindly turned their shirts inside out for this game and then Santiago et al proceeded to turn them inside out. Well, not really. This was a good team; this was a nervous match, this was a narrow win. Pedro scored first, Alberto scored later, St George's huffed, St. George's puffed but Ambrit won... again... well done... to all!