Headed to the Semifinals - Dubai 7s
We are headed to the semi finals!
The last two days we’ve played 3 games. We were supposed to play more versus South African sides but because of the new variant it restricted them of leaving their country. Nonetheless we still got to play 3 really good sides.
Our first game was against U19 German national 7s team who dismantled us in a huge upset. They capitalized on us at the breakdown and all our other mistakes. It was our first game playing as a team together so it was hard to adjust to everyone’s play style.
In the second game we faced our North American counterpart, the NA Lions, who like the Germans capitalized on our mistakes and beat us by a good margin.
We took this feeling we had from Day 1 and completely changed it headed into Day 2 of competition when we played Brussels Development Academy. We started to play like a 7’s team and we started to play for each other. I was able to cross the white wash 2 times myself. It was a great team win and felt good to finally win here in Dubai.
Video of our third game is loaded on my website here https://www.jtrugby.ca/video-gallery
Now on Day 3 of the competition, we head to the Semi-Finals in a rematch versus the Lions. We are going to look to keep our mistakes to a minimum as they are very good on counter attack. If we can stick to our game plan we could beat them to book our ticket to the big dance inside the stadium where the national players are playing!
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