On Tuesday Oct. 11, the NECC Knights blanked Mass Bay Community College 4-0 for a conference division game.
I asked NECC Knights assistant head coach Marcos Viera Filho if it was positive thing or a negative that the next five games are going to be against conference division teams.
“I think is a positive because basically we had the whole season to prepare for it. So there is no excuses, you know we had time to prepare and I think we have been getting better as the seasons went a long so I think it in the right time,” said Viera Filho before the game.
The game started at 3:30 p.m. The Knights had an early 1-0 lead, three minutes into the game Sam De Amorim of Methuen scored on an assist from Fadi Serhan of Middletown.
The Knights had two corner kicks in less than 12 minutes.
In the 15 minutes into the game a player of Mass Bay touched the ball and passed it to the goaltender and the coach was red hot as the referee did not saw that.
39 minutes into the game the goaltender of Mass Bay was out cold as he got hit in a collision with one of the players.
The goaltender Jack Randlett was taken out of the game and the back up goal tender came in.
Knights soccer player Leonard Rodriguez Ortiz of Methuen and Mass Bay player Gift Soto Kuepouo both got a yellow card for unsportsmanlike behavior.
The Knights were up 1-0 at the half.
The Knights had 11 shots on goal while Mass Bay had one. The Knights and Mass Bay both had three corner kicks and both teams had four fouls and both teams had a yellow card.
The Knights had two corner kicks in the first five minutes.
In the 62 minutes in the game De Amorim got an assist by Johnathan Diaz to make it 2-0 Knights.
Serhan was issue a yellow card for slamming the ball into the ground 75 minutes into the game.
I talked to the assistant head coach about Serhan’s actions.
“It wasn’t just Fadi (Serhan), that was something that happened with a couple players, it has been something that we have been dealing with during the season but I think the best way for us is to practice on that is to really make intense moments in practices situation that are going to be competitive in practice so we can get to used to dealing with some adversity,” said Viera Filho.
Ethan Mugwany of Haverhill scored the third goal of the game in the 79th minute of the game.
In the very next minutes the Knights did not waste any time to make this game 4-0 — Sem Milambo of Lawrence scored on a assist of De Amorim.
The Knights had 14 shots on goal while Mass Bay had one. The Knights also had five corner kicks and Mass Bay none. Both teams each had a yellow card and a foul.
“The last two games it was definitely important wins as a team collectively but obviously we have tough competition coming up with better records, so it is good that we got to win but we still have a lot of work to do,” said Viera Filho.
The Knights in the second half had 14 shots on goal and Mass Bay one. The Knights had 14 corner kicks and Mass Bay zero. Both teams had a foul while Knights had two yellow cards and Mass Bay none.
