Being at the game and seeing Riverside and Greenville play a couple of other times this year I have a couple of opinions. Greenville usually plays high pressure and depend a lot on their speed to win the ball in their attacking half of the field and work for a corner, long throw, or foul to score. They are very organized and play great team defense. The first problem on Saturday was Riverside played very well with the ball under pressure in their half and managed to always make great decisions with the ball; weather it be a long ball to #20 (who played a great game and pressured Greenville's back 4 all night) or build up from the backs to midfielders. The second reason Riverside was successful is because Kosis #18 and Shockly GK were unbelievable in the air on all long balls, corners, and throw-ins which allowed them to clear the ball and counter-attack instead of picking the ball out of the back of the net and go to kick-off like the rest of the teams Greenville faced this year. The third reason, and final from my point of view, is Riverside played together as a team at the level they are capable and were capable of playing all year with the talent they have. Let's face it they have some ballers on that team. I will also say that Greenville still did not play their best game of the year and still hung in there with Riverside. Seemed everytime Riverside would score back would come Greenville and put one in. So it was a great game to watch. But like I said this is my opion and I could be wrong.
