Boys & Girls Tuesday
4th September 2007
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This
was going to be an interesting game. The
Girls had also finally reached the 11-a-side stage and so were looking for some
good games. They had just played the
U12’s and we were next. We had had two
unofficial training games against them and they had beaten us twice, however
(with the exception of Callum still) we were all finally available.
The
line up was:
Joby
Sam
B Mark Jack
Joel
Josh Sam K
Tom Max
Joe Chilly
Substitutes: Spike &
Dan
We
attacked down the right and forced a corner.
Josh threw to Chilly and he turned inside and passed towards Sam K. The ball was deflected behind Sam however and
they won the ball and broke quickly down the right. We were simply unable to catch them and a
ball swung into the middle was despatched past Joby with the minimum of fuss 0-1.
A throw from Josh was headed back by Sam K. Josh went inside and found Chilly and his ball
was then to Sam K. Sam laid it off to
Tom who shot from 20 yards and it hit the outside of the stansion. We won a corner and Tom gave a great
delivered ball into the danger area. Dan
chested it down and shot, but it was just wide.
Just on halftime, Ashleigh and Jack challenged for the ball. It was an innocuous looking challenge of just
two legs intertwining, however Ashleigh went down and started to cry out
straight away. The ref blew for
half-time to stop things.
There
was a very long delay as Ashleigh was in a lot of pain and we didn’t want to
move her. An ambulance was called and
after a 20 minute delay we were allowed to switch the rest of the match to
Pitch 1 outside of the Club. The
Ambulance eventually came and took Ashleigh and it was ultimately revealed that
she had a displaced fracture of her foot and would be out for up to three
months! Back to the game, and we had a
lot of good passing around the pitch, but without really penetrating their
defence. Finally we forced a throw down
by their left back. Sam K got it and
passed to Chilly who turned inside and shot, but it was deflected upwards and
the ‘keeper caught it. From the drop
kick we won it back and a defence splitting pass was chased by Tom, but as the
‘keeper came out, his knock was just the wrong side of the post. Max then passed it to Sam K and he returned
the favour. Max played it inside to
Chilly and he crossed it across the face of the goal to where Dan was ghosting in at the back post
and he hit it past the ‘keeper 1-1. Sam K won the ball and went wide to Tom. He turned a player and chipped it into the
middle of the box to where Chilly was running in, however two girls just got
there first for a corner. Tom took the
corner short to Mark but his cross in was missed by everyone. They broke and Joel put in a real crunching
tackle and we held our breath for a few seconds as she led there, however she
finally got up. Spike defended well and
played a ball out of defence past three players to Tom on the left. He ran down the wing and was tackled as he
tried to cross, but it was a great pass from Spike. Joel cleared the ball well out of defence and
Tom won it. He found Chilly and Chilly
saw Josh making the run. We all thought
he would shoot, but he elected to cross instead and no one was able to get to
it. Sam K then won the ball and found
Chilly who turned his marker and shot, however it was just wide.
Man of the Match – Chosen by Andy for excellent
play and effort – Sam K