After a sub-par performance at Downers-Grove on Sunday, it was a much improved Team Chicago Academy-Internacional team that took the turf field at Oak Park-River Forest last night.

While it took a bit to get used to the super-fast turf surface, there was much more composure and focus, and eventually the passing movement improved. Playing against a good & physical team, Internacional played some great passing soccer – especially in the 2nd half.

4 separate beautiful passing sequences and runs led to 100% chances, but unfortunately we lacked the necessary luck an/or quality on the day to take advantage of those chances. Instead, we ended up 1-0 losers off a corner-kick.

The soccer gods were hardly with us on the night, but it was a strong performance, and a good lesson in combination with Sunday’s loss – losing with a strong performance is OK, but losing with a poor performance and effort is not OK.

Internacional finishes off the Spring season with a 5pm home game this Sunday at Rios Park.