ALEX SCOTT BLOG 06/10/09

It's not how you start but how you finish?

So i thought it would be best for me to check back in with you all and give you all a slight insight as to what i have been up to since i left Boston at the end of our WPS season. Nothing much really just playing in a ..................EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL,ha.

So here goes i will take you all back to the beginning and tell you all how things went down in our camp.

We all meet up at the airport on the Monday morning all suited and booted in our LOVELY!!!! Looking suits, this is the 1st time we have seen each other in our suits so all the banter begins and all the 1 liner jokes are dropped. We know this is the beginning of our journey and the wait is finally over and we are now off to the Euros in Finland.

Was........ IT WAS A LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG week!

We had a whole week of hearing nothing else apart from the Italians, so when people (by people i mean media and other teams) said after the game that we took Italy to lightly i would have like to grab these people by the hand and been able to time travel and for them to spend the week leading up to the game in our shoes! I can tell you that going into the game i think to this day i can tell you everything there is to know about every single Italian player there is to no. Panico target player main goal threat very dangerous in and around the box, Gabbiadini #8 tricky player likes to dribble 1v1, gama #3 left back but is predominately right footed, both full backs like to get forward so attack these areas quick etc etc etc etc, i think i can tell you what time they were going to bed also,ha, my point being here is that we had a whole long week to the build up to this game and probably had information overload, but no was expecting us to be a player down in the 1st 15min and that is what we had to deal with.

My reflections on this game - did we play our best football no, we played to many long balls which is not our style at all. At times you could not tell we was a player down, we was still going flat out because we thought we could win, in the end it took a wonder gaol by their #8 (who we had picked out as a possible danger from scouting reports ) to win the game for them ENGLAND 1 ITALY2.

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