We Can Work It Out Sunday
16th December 2007
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A
month after our last game, the weather lets up enough for us to play
again. Joby was a week out and thought
we were away to Oldland, turning up at 10:28am.
Josh was ill, Tom was ill but turned up, and Nick was ref’.
The
line up was:
Joby
Jack Aaron
Callum Joel
Spike Sam
Tom Max
Joe Chilly
Subs:
Dan & Charlie
We
put pressure on their area, it came out to Joel who knocked it back in to
Chilly who laid it up for Tom on the half-volley. It dropped at the ‘keeper, however it was a
good passage of play. Their ‘keeper
kicked it out. Spike won it and passed
it to Tom and he in turn found Chilly.
Chilly tried to turn and was blocked, but the ball spun loose to Tom who
was in on the ‘keeper. The ‘keeper came
out and Tom hit it at him, where it bounced back, hit Tom and went out for a
goal-kick. Their player barged Tom off
of the ball which the ref’ never gave.
Dodgy ref’! and the player drove towards the left side and shot high
from outside of the area, giving Joby no chance 0-1. Sam kicked through to
Charlie who got there at the same time as the ‘keeper, but he won it and shot
across goal and off of the post. Max
went wide and crossed back in, but it was eventually cleared.
The
ball was played into our box where their attacker on the penalty spot shot
high. Joby missed it, but it hit the
crossbar and bounced down and out to where two of their players went for it and
hit it at goal, however Joby had jumped up and dived at it, making a fantastic
catch. A corner is driven in from the
right to Max at the back who hit it back across goal for the far corner, but a
defender on the line headed it out as far as Aaron, and he hit it up and back
to goal, and as two of our players challenged, the ‘keeper recovered to make a
good catch under pressure. We tried to
attack out of defence, but the ball was lost.
It was crossed in from their left towards the penalty spot and Joby ran
out to get it, however Joel didn’t see him and running across tried to clear
it, however instead of using his right to clear it away from goal, he used his
left and it drove it back across goal where one of their players was lurking,
and with Joby out of position, he just passed it into an empty net 0-2.
Sam won the ball and attacked down the right wing, past their defenders,
and as he raced into the box and prepared to shoot, their centre back dived across
and just got his foot to it, diverting it for a corner. They took a corner which we half-cleared but
was hit back into the middle to where three players had become unmarked and one
of them put it in 0-3. Chilly, Sam, Tom & Charlie moved the ball
forward well and eventually it came to Tom,
25 yards from goal, and he leathered it.
The ‘keeper did get his fingers to it, but it wasn’t enough and it was
in 1-3. Next Dan, Tom and Aaron combined really well
in getting the ball forward and again Tom shot, however this time it was low
and the ‘keeper got there, however we were at this stage putting them under a
lot of pressure. They took a throw which
Callum headed back and their player volleyed it goalwards. It his the stantion part of the goal and came
out, but I don’t think we would have been too upset if it had gone in, such was
the quality of the strike. Again I gave
the whole team the Man of the Match award, such was the character they all
showed against the team who are top and flying.
Man of the Match – Chosen by Andy for excellent play
and effort – The Whole Team