Bad Weather, Bad Loss

Today, our team played a match under the rain and lost again a Russian team who had fast and skillful attackers. I think our team didn't pass the ball enough and instead held on it too long which is why we lost it several times. I think I was more communicative today than the other times but didn't go forward enough since I only tried moving up with the ball once. I think I should also call for the ball instead of expecting it to come to me since when I saw that I was open for a back pass I didn't say anything even though my team mate didn't have a lot of open options. If we were more aggressive and offensive we could have put sufficient pressure to have the majority of the possession since the opponents couldn't be able to move with the ball since most of the times they were able to have a shot on goal was because we let them build momentum so it was harder to stop them. Next week, my aim is to go forward at least three times so I can help out the midfielders and attackers and be a more communicative centre defender since, even though I was more communicative today than last week, I wasn't very authoritarian even though my role as the centre of the defence requires that.