HFL first week review by SRINIDHI

Match 1

Monsters-5 vs Wolves-1

Coming back to H.F.L, the first match of the season was played between defending champions Monsters and Wolves, the champions Monsters opened their defence with positive start to the campaign with complete demolition of Wolves. The game saw Monsters dominating the entire game with outstanding all round display from the entire team, where skipper & hoysalas playmaker Vasu scoring the first hatrick of the tournament creating another record in H.F.L with first ever hatrick on tournament opener, however srinidhi(so called Fox in the Box) opened the scoring for Monsters within 10 mins from the start where, Wolves came back with equalizer just at the end of the halftime, thus first half of the H.F.L new season opener finished with score line reading 1-1, second half witnessed more demolition act from the defending champions, where their skipper vasu came back to haunt Wolves with scoring 3 goals in very short span of time, along with vasu arun contributed another goal for Monsters as Monsters completed their demolition act against wolves with a sweet 5-1 victory.

Match2

Guns’N’Bullets - 1 vs Monsters - 3

The next match was played between Defending champions Monsters and Guns’N”Bullets, where GNB made Monsters to work hard more, GNB approached the game with more attacking fashion, pressing on Monsters for more occasions but it was arun who made a long range shoot right from the half to open the scoring for Monsters, but GNB fought very hard to hold Monsters but once again skipper vasu came in very handy with a crucial goal on the other end as monsters took complete control of the game, GNB pulled one back thru Abhiram, when monsters defender Karthik collided with GNB striker Abhiram to concede the goal, at closing stages of the match monsters striker srinidhi completed the game with yet another name on score sheet to take 2 goal cushion lead over GNB. So match once gain concluded with Monsters clinching the top spot with two consecutive victories in H.F.L.

Match 3

Guns’N’Bullets – 1 vs Guts’N’Glory - 1

The third match of the campaign begin when Guts’N’Glory tested the title credentials of Guns’N’Bullets, although the score line suggests both were very hard to break down, after going down to league leaders monsters in their last game, GNB made right start, with much more defensive approach to the game adding with some physical presence in it, but it was GNG who opened the scoring in form of their skipper Sunil who scored a screamer from the half line, but there after game progressed rather slowly although GNG did try to break on more occasions but laterally failed, where GNB came good in second half with much more determined mindset to win the game, finally Madan got the equalizer right at the stoppage time thru a controversial goal allowed by referees.

So, it was the first fantastic week for H.F.L, with Monsters clinching the top spot of the table, Guts’N’Glory placed right behind the leaders at second spot, where Guns’N’Bullets & Wolves making 3 & 4^th position respectively.