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Dec. 20 – Xmas Tourno

O dia começou com o torneio dos mais pequenos, Santa’s Special Sixes, organizado pelo James. A equipa White, liderada por Marije Imming, foi a vencedora ao bater a equipa Green 2-0 e a equipa Red 1-0.

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De seguida veio o torneio a sério, o XMAS 7’s, composto por seis equipas. A equipa Rudolph, liderada pelo Andrew, acabou em 6º lugar. Em 5º lugar veio a equipa Prancer, que tinha o Kai como capitão e o Maarten, de 12 anos, o jogador mais novo do torneio. Os Blitzen, liderados pelo Custódio, e com o jogador mais velho do torneio o Hans de 60 anos, acabaram em 4º lugar. A equipa Dasher, que tinha o Jerry como capitão, terminou em 3º lugar. O João Miguel acabou com a tradição de chegar em último lugar, ao liderar os Vixen para o 2º classificado! Mas, havendo tradições que acabam, há as que se mantêm. Com a equipa Comet, liderada pelo Joe, a acabar em 1º lugar. O dia terminou com mais de 40 pessoas no Jantar de Natal em Cascais, contando com uma mistura de Sub-13, Sub-18, Seniores masculinos e femininos, Veteranos e pais.

JK

Dec. 14 – U15 Won against Belenenses Ladies

A brilliant win for the U15s against the former ladies national indoor champions Belenenses, The best game this team ever played: despite the early concession of a strong goal by Belenenses from a short corner, the young ones pushed forward and got the equalizer through Vicente Mourão just before the half-time. Diogo Lima and Marina Gancedo were electric in the LCHC attack, creating numerous opportunities; in the defence John Harrison was a gigantic wall stopping almost all the Belenenses ladies’ attacks. In the second half Belenenses, needing a win to ensure their presence in the ladies national finals, started to push forward: but it was LCHC that controlled the game with a brilliant defence and well organized strategy, and all Belenenses’ attempts were stopped by our ‘Little Giant’  Maarten Green who is becoming a serious case study!! The goal of the day was scored by the usual suspect, Vicente Mourão, from a short corner against LCHC saved by Maarten, Vicente recovered the ball and went straight for goal, dribbling through the entire Belenenses team and scored!!  The 3rd goal came from a brilliant move starting with Kim (another wall in defence) straight to Diogo Lima, and then to Marina Gancedo who closed the score on a fantastic 3-1.

JMF

Nov. 30

The U-15s played their first indoor game on Sunday morning against Casa Pia Ladies and, in spite of the early hour and only one training session the day before, they looked like they had been playing together for six weeks, not six minutes. That was how long it took to get a penalty stroke, and captain Vicente put the first score on the board for the Casuals. It took him just one more minute to put a second goal in. Then one of the two talent discoveries of the day, Fleur Huijsmans, scored 2 more goals from open play and Vicente made it a hat-trick from a penalty corner to take a 5-0 lead into the interval.

After the break, Casa Pia came out fighting, but the second talent discovery of the day, Kim Huijsmans, Fleur’s older sister, took everything in her stride, stayed calm under pressure and played a very mature game at centre back. Vicente then got his fourth goal from another penalty corner and Marina rubbed salt in the wound with a nicely worked goal in the dying minutes, to close out a convincing 7-0 win. Watch out Lisbon Casuals Ladies!

JH

After a tough defeat against Carris this morning, the Men played a second indoor game against Futebol Benfica this evening. Philip Wenzel put the Casuals ahead with a well-directed tip-in from a great through ball by Fred Santos. Futebol Benfica equalized from a defensive mix-up, but Casuals were holding their own. However only André Rosa’s save from a penalty stroke kept the scores level 1-1 at the break. In the second half Casuals’ play became more and more sloppy – perhaps tiredness from the morning game began to take its toll. Their mistakes were punished with regular goals from Futebol Benfica and left them with a 1-7 defeat.

TP

Nov. 29 – U18 close win

LCHC começou o jogo com Bernardo Paredes e comigo, Tomas Hilt, como defesas, à frente jogaram Diogo Brito e André Teixeira e à baliza como sempre o nosso guarda-redes Gonçalo Brito. Por causa de estar doente o nosso capitão Philipp Wenzel não pode jogar, sendo assim que fui eu o capitão do LCHC.

Começamos o jogo depois de 16 minutos já estava 0:2 para os nossos adversários. Por causa de falta de treino a nossa maneira de jogar parecia que ainda estávamos a jogar hóquei em campo. O jogador André Teixeira (LCHC) teve de sair de campo por ter recebido um cartão verde.

A primeira parte tinha acabado. O nosso treinador Joe Kodde não estava muito feliz com o resultado e a maneira como nós estávamos a jogar. Tendo conta que também podíamos ter sofrido mais do que só um canto curto mas por causa de excelentes defesas do nosso guarda-redes, Gonçalo Brito, não sofremos mais. Os jogadores também fizeram bastantes boas defesas contra os cantos curto, por exemplo Bernardo Paredes defendeu uma bola em cima da linha da baliza.

Entramos na segunda parte e começamos a jogar com muito mais concentração e mais garra para ganhar o jogo. Sendo assim que Diogo Brito marca no minuto 32 e 37 dois golos ambos por uma jogada. Estava 2:2 até ao último minuto onde ganhamos um canto curto por Diogo Brito. André Teixeira injeta para a entrada da área onde eu estava. Com um dragflick marquei o golo que decidiu o resultado final de 3:2 para o Lisbon Casuals.

Tommy Hilt

Nov. 23 -Men draw against Juventude HC

After the U18s beat Casa Pia 5-1 yesterday, the Men had to come from behind twice today for a draw against Juventude. After falling behind to a high strike after 7 minutes, they went level 10 minutes later, when a fierce backhand cross from Philip Wenzel was neatly tucked away at the far post by João Ralha. A silly mix-up in the Casuals’ defence allowed Juventude to take the lead again 15 minutes into the second half.

With Fernando Custódio, Fred Santos and André Teixeira working tirelessly in midfield, Casuals gradually took control of the game. But, despite several inviting crosses flashing across the visitors’ goalmouth, Casuals’ finishing was simply not up to scratch.  After failing to take advantage of a host of penalty corners, Philip Wenzel finally drove one low inside the right-hand post for the equaliser. With Casuals wasting another clear-cut chance for a winner at the left-hand post in the final minutes, the game reflected some much improved team play, but a disappointment at the final 2-2 scoreline.