Gotham Argo vs. NY's Finest

Gotham Argo 5 - 0 NY's Finest
9pm PIER 40 Courtyard East

------- match report by Jeremy Newton

On Sunday, Gotham Argo secured a long overdue victory against New York's Finest (who were 2 for 2 this season). Through superior ball control, speed, grit and determination, the goals came fast and furious for Argo in the first 30 minutes of the match. Sam Sneed started off the scoring smorgasbord with a beautiful shot from just inside the 18 into the far upper right corner. A couple minutes later, Uri Itkin, never one to be out of the action for long, collected a ball their goalkeeper had punched (more realistically swatted away) at the corner of the box, and with an outside of the foot half-volley, sent the ball in a gentle arc over the defender's heads, with just enough left to right side spin to nestle the ball safely in the side netting. Ten minutes later, Argo was again on the counter attack, and Troy Strike sends a long ball to the top of the box, where Jeremy Newton collects the ball, touches it past his defender and the sweeper, and coolly slots the ball into the far post. Another 10 minutes later, Gotham Argo again mustered up a scoring attack, this time with some nice short passing up the middle and right sides of the field between Momo Diop, Sam Ray, and Uri Itkin. Working the ball all the way up to the Finest's 18, Sam Ray makes a pass to Sammy Sneed, who pirouettes around his defender and sends a vicious strike just past the keeper's outstretched hands for the fourth goal of the match.

Having achieved a 4 goal lead, the rest of the game was less than dominating for Argo, though its opponents still only came up with a handful of goal scoring opportunities, which were capably handled by our guest goalkeeper for the night, Argo Silver's, Elliot Gilmore. Although Argo was no longer controlling and moving the ball as they did in the first half, they still managed to sneak in one more goal when Sam Sneed used his superior speed to beat his defender and dribble into the box for a nice little 3 on 3. Slotting the ball back to Kevin Gordon in the middle of the pitch drew two defenders, including the one marking Jeremy on the far post. In a gesture of generosity, Kevin eschewed taking the shot himself, and passed it to the far post where Jeremy easily finished to make the game 5-0.