Hard
To Beat Sunday 24th February
2008
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Joby
was away, not realising that this game was on, so had managed to get tickets to
see Reading v Aston Villa. We were
waiting quite a while, not even sure that the game was on as they had not been
seen. Eventually Nick found them and we
kicked off ten minutes later due to parking problems at the Netham.
The
line up was:
Joel
Dan Aaron
Jack Spike
Chilly
Josh Sam
Max
Tom Charlie
Subs:
Joe & Callum
Max
chased a ball into the corner which held up in the grass. He crossed it to Charlie who had his back to
goal and laid it out to Tom. It hit a
bobble as Tom went to hit it and spun to Sam who shot, but unfortunately it
went over. They broke quickly down their
right and towards the area where they shot across goal, but Joel was alert and
pushed it wide for a corner. They
attacked towards our area and we made tackles, but none of them strong enough
to win the ball and suddenly they were in the area. Joel came out to narrow the angle, but he was
given no chance 1-0. Tom chased down the left and crossed it in to
Charlie. He laid it out to Max for a
shot, but it was blocked and came back to Charlie. He shot this time, but it hit their defender,
ricocheted back onto Charlie, and went out.
A
lovely corner in was attacked by Max, putting their defender under pressure and
his clearance was miscued but went just the wrong side of the post as far as we
were concerned. They attacked on the
break and Aaron came across to clear, but with the pitch so big it didn’t go
out and their wide winger got it and carried on. He cut inside and had a shot, but Joel got
down well and made the save. We attacked
into the area and their ball out was only as far as Jack. He hit it high back in and it came to
Max. He used all of his strength to turn
his player, but managed to scoop the ball high and just wide of the left
post. At last it finally came. Our ball into their box was cleared as far as
Aaron. He played it wide to Jack on the
left who played it down the line for Tom, who was taken out. Sam came over to swing the ball into the
area. It hit a few players and then came
to Aaron, who took one touch to
control it, and then smashed it into the roof of the net 1-1. From a throw, Sam
challenged and won it, played it back to Chilly and he shot from a good 20
yards out. It was hard and high, but
just too much so and dropped just over the crossbar. Their player then ran right down the left
wing and shot right across the face of the goal. It looked close from where we were stood at
the other end, but luckily it didn’t go in.
Right at the end we chipped a ball across their box to the right side where
Tom came in. He miss-hit it, but it came
to Charlie, virtually on the line with a defender and their ‘keeper. Unfortunately, the ball just wouldn’t drop
enough and was eventually put out for a goal-kick. Their ‘keeper took a poor kick and it came to
Sam on the edge of the box who just hit it hard and high. It flew right into the top left corner of the
goal, giving the ‘keeper no chance to save it, however, whilst it was in the
air and on its way, their referee blew full time and the goal did not count!
Man of the Match – Chosen by Andy for
excellent play and effort – Aaron &
Max