MAP 1 - 0 Beachlands-Maraetai
FINALLY!!! The communication in the backline finally worked out in the last game of the first round and the opposition didn't have anything but route 1 stuff. It was a bit nervewracking in the second half - I was thinking "how are we going to stuff this up?" - and the strikers still had problems putting stuff away. But we held our shape in the midfield. The fact that we remembered we had a shape in the midfield was remarkable enough.
I didn't have my best game - fumbled a few high balls, which came in too regularly for my liking - but no damage was done, and I managed to get up the opposing forward's nose, which is always fun.
So that's 1-0-7, 3 points from 8 matches in the first round. Well. The second round will be better.