Trial match or Scrimmage

Yesterday, we had a game against Takatsuki. Depending on how you call it, some might call it Trial match or Scrimmage. Depending on where you're from. I personally used to call it scrimmage, but Now I call it Trial Match. I like the latter, because, some of the players, this is one of the few chance to showcase what they can do. Coach can then evaluate them and make the team better.
However, with our team, we are bit (nicely put) short on numbers of players so, it wasn't really a trial match, so you could call it Scrimmage for yesterday's game.
We won 4-2 but they didn't have a real Goalkeeper. I mean, they did not have a person who specialize in protecting goal. And the 'keeper can use its hands! So they used their field players to defend the goal. Takatsuki is in Second Division, but watching the game, you couldn't tell. Weather and the field were wet and we benefit the slippery field for couple of goal and their GK, but if it were played with a real keeper and good condition, I'm not sure if we won.
Game theme for defense was not to allow opposition to get in the vital area. In Japan they use the term "vital area" - between defenders (center backs) and midfielders (defensive midfield). it is natural that opponent's Forward will enter the "area" but we wanted to position ourselves so that they can not penetrate that "area" by either pass or by dribble.
Well, they were in that "area" all day and marking was too loose to consider "Marked." And they passed, they dribbled. Their final passing or controlling of the pass under the bad condition helped us recover. Still they managed two goals and one was a cracker, screamer, great goal helped by my keeper out of position. Second goal was indecision by keeper to come off the line. They took advantage of blunder and level the score. But like I wrote earlier, they didn't have a real keeper so we put two shot pass their 'part-timer'
Still lots of work to do with our back up keeper......