Charlie & The Chocolate Factory           Sunday 29^th April 2007

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Away to Cadbury Heath ‘A’ and Andy remembered the Dictaphone!  Josef and Dan were rested, although Dan came to watch anyway.

 

Game 1 - The line up was:

 

Joby

 

Jack     Callum

 

Josh     Joel     Tom

 

Joe

 

Rolling Sub: Luke

 

A ball forward saw Callum challenge, but was adjudged to have fouled.  They took a shot, and Joby pushed it over with his fingertips.  The resulting corner flew in, but their header was wide.  Joel won the ball back from a throw and surged down the left.  He then passed through three defenders but just beyond Joe, however it was a really good pass.  Joe then launched a throw in, which was met on the back post by Josh’s foot, but it went just wide.  Tom won the ball in our area and launched it for Joe.  He went wide and shot, but their ‘keeper saved it for a corner.  Joe took the corner which Jack headed goalwards.  The ‘keeper made the save, but Tom followed up and put it in the net 0-1.

 

HALF-TIME : CADBURY HEATH   0    FRYS   1

 

Tom won it from their corner, ran forward and then played the ball into the middle to where Luke was running in.  The ‘keeper came for it, but must have taken his eye off of the ball because it spun loose and Luke had an open goal to pass the ball into 0-2.  They broke away, outnumbering us, but first Callum held them up, then Jack held them up, allowing the others time to get back and we made the clearance.  Tom got that clearance and spotted Joe in space.  He found him, but as he turned the ‘keeper raced out and just got his foot to it.  The ball was then played into Josh, one yard out, just the ‘keeper to beat, however facing the wrong way!  He turned, but it allowed the defender time to get back and block the shot.  They cleared an attack to Tom who laid it back to Jack and he shot from halfway, but it went wide.  They were then through two onto Callum.  Callum tackled one, but it broke for the other and as it came to him, Joby was quickly at him to make the save.  Tom again put Joe through, and again their ‘keeper was off his line really fast to save at his feet. From our attacking, they broke, and again Joby was out quickly to deny them a goal.

 

FULL-TIME : CADBURY HEATH   0    FRYS   2

 

 

Game 2 - The line up was:

 

Jamie

 

Sam B     Mark

 

Jim     Sam K     Max

 

Chilly

 

Rolling Subs: Spike (& Dan)

 

We pushed forward from the start and won a corner.  Jim delivered a great ball in which Max met with his head, past the ‘keeper but it crashed against the crossbar, bounced down and the ‘keeper got it.  They attacked and forced a corner.  It was swung in, Jamie came for it, but it was a bit too high and it hit his fingertips and went in 1-0.  A Cadbury player was injured when we had the ball so the ref stopped play and then it was sportingly played back to Jamie to restart.  He launched a massive kick, which Max brought down.  He went wide to Chilly with it and ran for the middle.  Chilly saw the run and returned the ball and Max stroked it beyond the ‘keeper 1-1.  Max and Chilly attacked well down the left and forced a corner.  Jim took it and curled it inwards, however the curl deceived the ‘keeper as it flew inside of him and straight into the net 1-2.  They attacked into our area and Mark brought him down, conceding the penalty.  Their attacker hit a very good penalty, hard and low for the left corner, but Jamie flung himself down there, pushed it onto the post and Mark followed up to clear.  Mark worked hard in defence with the help of some strong running from Max.  Max went down the left and got it to Chilly with his back to goal.  He back-heeled it, then turned to see what happened, it hit the ‘keeper, came back, hit Chilly on the knee and bounced back past the ‘keeper 1-3.

 

HALF-TIME : CADBURY HEATH   1    FRYS   3

 

Mark won the ball and played it to Jim.  Jim played a one two with Sam K, then returned it again to Sam K, who beat a player and shot high for the corner 1-4.  Max played it through to Chilly who was alone, but their ‘keeper was a good five yards outside of his area and dived in to clear it.  Jamie won the ball and dropped kicked it wide to Max who in turn found Chilly.  The ‘keeper was out again at him, however this time he sidestepped the challenge and just rolled the ball into the empty net 1-5.  By this time, Dan had organised some kit from Joel and had come on as a second striker, 2-2-2 formation!  We broke out and had Sam K attacking on the ball with one defender going to him and the other having to choose between Chilly and Dan.  He went to Chilly so Sam passed to Dan, the ‘keeper came out but Dan went bravely in and the ball spun up from the challenge and fell straight to Chilly with another open net 1-6.

 

FULL-TIME : CADBURY HEATH   1    FRYS   6

 

 

OVERALL RESULT : CADBURY HEATH   1    FRYS   8

 

Afterthoughts…………………………………………………

Well played to everyone.  We weathered real storms at times but broke away to get the important goals, and then could relax a bit and we started to play some intelligent football which was a real pleasure to watch.  Some of the space we created, and more importantly the passing into that space was wonderful to see.