Review for Week 27 : Hurray!!! A Win Atlast

Vs Young Boys
Won 10-6

Hi,

A victory atlast!!

A good performance against a Young Boys saw Hoysala's register there first win after 5 months..
A poor start saw Hoysalas conceding 4 goals in the first half but picked themselves up in the second half thru goals from Srinidhi (3), Biddu (3), Narayan (2), Vasu (1) & Raja (1).

Defence was pretty poor in the early part of the game with defenders swamy & karthik & Goalee Raja responsible for the goals conceded in the first half..but Swamy kept well when he was substitued a sgoalee & Karthik stood out in the second half. Shashi, Das, Vasu & Narayan played some beautiful football which consistently put pressure on the opposition defence. Both Srinidhi & Biddu looked out of sorts but scored a hatrick each.

Dasara has really has been lucky for us..lets hope we start winning from here..though the real test is against Vinayaka & some other better teams..for the moment though lets enjoy this win.

Man of the Match - Narayan/Vasu

I wish Narayan a "HAPPY MARRIED LIFE" on behalf of Hoysala's..

Review for Week 26 : Same old story continues

Vs Vinayaka
Lost 1-3

Hi,

Our problems are as old as hills & we havent yet found the solution..we have been playing pretty good football for the last four weeks & yet havent able to win or draw a game..

A different & new attacking statergy in this match almost worked..with six players in attacking positions..we had the game under control & took the lead early in the first half with some good passing & some cool finishing by Raja.. We had 3 more straight forward chances & we didnt take them. As in most of the matches this season when we looked set to win we gave away a rather easy goal & they followed it up with two more, all 3 goals were scored in the last 15 minutes.

The intent is there but we seem to be going somewhere wrong in the execution
i think its getting little bit frustrating..

for the record
Last time we won was on 27th May 2007 against BU
From 27th May Onwards we have played 22 games lost 21 & 1 Draw
Out of 33 matches this season we have won 3, 4 draw & lost 26
We have scored 39 goals & conceded 92 goals

Hope this Dasara or Deepavali or atleast Christmas brings us some luck..if not no need to worry Sankranthi will follow soon.
I promise a big party to all the members on the day we win.

Man of the Match - Raja

Review for week 24 & 25 - Win ratio crashes to 10%

Hi Guys

Week 24 - Match 31
vs Vinayaka
lost 1-3

Man of the Match - Das

Week 25 - Match 32
Vs Vinayakalost 0-1

Review by Srinidhi

Hi,

Hoysala’s are now starting to find their old form once they were known for, this week was clear witness of that, although Vinayaka FC emerged as late winners, were far from threatening to the young hoysalas.

Hoysalas started the game in absence of several key players, the young hoysalas were totally in control of the game right from the start of the match, swamy took the initiative in absence of the skipper windoor to lead the side, although he was back from the “back injury” which ruined the most part of the on-going season started brilliantly at the back commanding the team right from the start, in absence of windoor (right back) chandru took over the position and played brilliantly, at other end left back jagga also had an outstanding game keeping the opposition open play alt many times, as defense chipped in with great performance, defensive mid fielders also had an excellent game by protecting the defense on many occasions, in absence of girish, abhi chipped in with some useful contribution to the team providing assists to forwards as wells as timed tackles to protect defense, the versatile player madan joined the arms with abhi in defensive mid playing one of the game of his life in his hoysalas football career, he was very instrumental in protecting the left side of the defense, where he developed a very good understanding with jagga to keep opposition at bay, our both playmakers Das & Vas also played vital role in building the attack on the other end providing the much needed assists to lone forward srinidhi(so called fox in the box – Just kidding), the best chance of the match came in the second half when das combined with the abhi to play beautiful one touch football which over came oppositions defense, but virtually ending with another ruined chance where Vincent the opposition defender came in to rescue for the hosts, as the game went on Das had one more chance on the target but this time it was denied by the goalie moni. Even oppositions tried lot of options up front to find a goal but were denied by the much organized defense & Mahesh (goalie) in particular, as game was heading to a tame draw, the stand in skipper swamy fumbled at his own half which gave the much needed break to vinayaka as they capitalized to find the net this time with smart finishing from vinayaka’s player (Name not known). Although the draw was a fair result for young hoysalas, they lost the game in the dying minutes yet again. Anyway the results will not make much difference to this side at present; the hoysalas are now finding the touch they had lost, I think we are a real deal in upcoming matches, vinayaka FC will be very eager to beat this young hoysalas.

Man of the Match - Mahesh/Madan

Review for Week 23 : Great performance but one more defeat

Vs Vinayaka
lost 0-2

Hi,

This week we played one of our best matches but still couldnt win the game. But we can take lot of positives from this game. The oppsoition looked scared of us which we havent seen in a long time.
Two goals conceded before our regular goalee Mahesh came on were the only mistakes we committed otherwise the whole team played really well .. we were able to push them back completely in the second half where we had alsmost 80-90% of ball possession. Vasu had a great game so did others..but the standout performer was Chander who came on as substitute in the second half & gave us the much needed experience. Sunil playing in his last game of the season gave one of his best performance. On behalf of the team, I wish him all the best.

Lets hope we do continue this form in the future as well

Man of the match : Chander/Vasu

HFL Winners in PICS

The Winners

Monsters..


Players of the Tournament - Vasu

Best Striker - Dinesh

Best Midfielder - Chandru

Best Defender - Karthik

Most promising young player - Harish

Goal Scorers	No. of Goals
Vasu	5
Sunil	4
Dinesh	4
Mahesh	3
Srinidhi	3
Jagga	3
Arun	2
Windy	2
Raja	1
Darshan	1
Shashi	1
Madan	1
Harish	1
Swamy	1
Das	1
Abhiram	1

HFL : Match Day 3 Review by SRINIDHI

1st Semifinal

Monsters - 2 vs Guns'n'Bullets - 1

Monsters down Bullets to clinch HFL Final Berth!!!

After Monsters losing their previous match against GNG, Monsters wanted to prove to the rivals why they were defending champions, taking on GNB, their performance was once again not up to the mark, defeat in their previous game was very hard as they were made to work hard in order to get the victory, Although monsters took the lead, the game never was one sided, earlier lose to monsters in the league GNB wanted to take sweat revenge on their title rivals but went on to finish as losing side, monsters skipper vasu doubled the lead in the second half as swami came back to score a lone complimentary for GNB, as the match concluded Monsters cruised for another final keeping the title hopes alive.

2nd Semifinal
Guts'n'Glory - 1 Vs Wolves - 1 (GNG won the match 3-0 on penalties)

After Monsters securing one of the two final spot, the second semi final was played between Wolves and GNG. GNG were in confident mood as they just came into the game beating the league leaders, GNG started the game with brilliant fashion with attacking more often, Mahesh opened the scoring for GNG in the first half, but thereafter they missed a lot of chances to take the lead. Wolves made a very good start in second half came back in the positive mood confusing GNG defence lot of times, finally jagga provided the much needed equalizer, with wolves hitting back at the break extending to extra time, but neither of the sides failed to convert the chances, the match had to be decided with penalties. Wolves failed to convert penalties to hand over the remaining final spot to GNG with 3-0 drubbing. Thus, the match ended with GNG going thru to final to face Monsters.

And the FINALs...

Monsters - 1 Vs Guts'n'Glory - 0

The most astonishing tournament came to an end with defending champions Monsters taking on Hard fought Guts”N”Glory. Monsters started brilliantly piling pressure on GNG for most of occasion, when the monster skipper vasu’s brilliant run from the half line to pass to darshan who scored an text book goal was the lone complimentary of the game. But as expected GNG came back in the second half creating one or two easy chances but failed to convert up front which resulted in handing over the championship to Monsters. With this triumph, Monsters now holds the HFL record of back to back championship winners. As the celebrations began in Monsters camp, their skipper Vasu was declared as Man of the Series, along with Vasu, Karthik was also handed the best defender of the series

HFL : Match Day 2 Review by SRINIDHI

Match 4
Guts'n'Glory Vs Monsters
GNG 4 beat Monsters 1

The fourth match of the season was played between the table toppers and defending champions Monsters against Guts’N”Glory. Unbeaten Monsters took on GNG for their final league match of the season; although they were top of the table this match witnessed the greatness of the football where there unbeaten streak was not only ended but was beaten comprehensively by GNG. GNG with a controversial draw against GNB in their previous match came back in a style to down the leaders convincingly, GNG had their star player comeback after missing in the previous game, Shashi who created a lot as well as scoring for the GNG, opened the scoring while srinidhi came back with an equalizer for monsters, but from there after GNG took complete control of the game, with their skipper Sunil striking back to give 2-1 lead, along with Mahesh scoring twice as GNG cruised to victory 4-1 against monsters.

Match 5
Guns'n'Bullets - 2 Vs Wolves - 2

One of the best matches of the tournament..was well contested by two equally balanced teams.
Wolves started well as Das opened the score for them early in the game but GNB got back with a goal from there captain Windoor. From there on both team looked to attack & at the end it was fair that the game ended in draw. Dinesh added the secod for Wolves & Harish levelled it for GNB.

Match 6
Guts'n'Glory - 1 vs Wolves - 3

Wolves tasted there first win in this match..which was the last game of group stages.
GNG who looked quite menacing against Monsters earlier in the day were comprehensively beaten by Wolves. Jagga scored 2 & Dinesh scored 1 for Wolves.. Sunil scored a solitary goal for GNG at the end.

Thus Monsters finished on top of the table with 6 Points..GNG finished 2nd with 4 points..Wolves finished 3rd with points & GNB finished last with 2 points.

Semifinal lineup

Monster Vs GNB
GNG vs Wolves

Standings at the end of group Stage