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| U9 Hawks Season 2010-11 |
Saturday 26th March 2011
V's Deanshanger Colts
The score itself might seem as if we won fairly easy, but far from it. The old saying, it’s a game of two half’s was so true in this game. From the first whistle you could see that both teams were up for this cup game.
First Half
Deanshanger I would say had at least 60% of the play in this half, they fought for every ball and came out on top in regards to retaining the ball. On several occasions they carved open our defence with their passing moves and movement off the ball. But our defence didn’t give up and battled for everything and with our midfield helping out at the back also, limiting their shots on target. Jose and Lewis both put in quite a few last ditch tackles to stop their shots. The shots they did get on target, Lewis our keeper seemed to cope well, and was quite busy in the first 15/20 mins. We did have a few chances on the quick break but like Deanshanger the boys seemed to misjudge there shots which either went wide or trickled through to their keeper, but it was literally end to end footie. Deanshanger might count themselves a little unlucky not to be ahead in the first half. In saying that we could say the same, 20 mins into the game and we had a corner, just before we took the corner I subbed Alex and on went Clarky. Lewis took the corner and as he did clarky moved from the back post to the centre of goal just inside their box, (not the 18 yard box but you know where I mean lol) and as the ball broke to him with a first time shot rattled it off the cross bar. So 0-0 in the first half.
Second Half
The word is transformation, that’s the only way to describe the second half performance of the Hawks. It was a total role reversal; the hawks came out battling and pressured the colts players on the ball giving them no time to play there passing game. In fact it was the hawk’s time to shine with their passing moves limiting the colts to quick breaks. 5 mins in to the second half the colts had an attack which our defence broke up, Lewis M broke out of defence on the right, played the ball to Taylan who turned his marker and carried the ball up the wing. This was what Richard and I work so hard at getting across to the boys, how much easier it is to pass the ball around the opposition rather than try to go through them. Clarky made a run also on the right trying to make space, Taylan passed the ball to clarky and ran to the edge of their area, ‘’clarky’’ under pressure squared the ball back to Taylan, who controlled it with his left and then fired hard and low into the back of the net, good move and good goal. Now that’s what I call team work.
Our second goal came after about 11 mins. We were on the attack and in their area, Alex shot for goal which came off their player for a corner. Jose delivered a high ball into their goal mouth, which one of their defenders headed it straight up into the air back to the right corner. One of their players tried to clear it, but put it back straight up into the air again. In stepped Alex who volleyed it over his head with his back to goal, the keeper tried to parry the ball over the cross bar but it went in. So second goal was Alex it was a very tight angle and who’s to say it wasn’t meant.
Our last goal came from the back again, Jamil won the ball on the left and passed it through to Ollie who turned and put a quick pass to Taylan across the other side on the right, Sean had made a run through the centre and was shouting to taylan, who looked up and made the pass to Sean, Sean picked up the ball and burst into the area and shot for goal to which the keeper saved but the rebound fell just in front of him, and because Sean followed up his shot, he was first to the rebound and slotted it into the bottom left corner of the goal. Great move again.
Deanshanger got a goal with about 2 mins to go from there number 11 on the edge of our area with a sweet right foot shot, another good goal.
Can I say thanks to Deanshanger Colts for a very entertaining and well fought game, in my eyes that could have gone either way? The first goal was critical whoever scored, as the other team would have to push up. Great game Colts and very fairly played.
Last but not least can I say a big thanks to two of our team, who could not play today? One with a broken arm and the other who is cup tied. But that did not stop them from coming down to support their team mates today. Kyran and Sam. |
Saturday 11th September
V Gt Linford Vipers
Let me just start by saying I can’t believe we lost that game, in all aspects it was a very good game and very fairly played by both teams.
First game of the season you would expect both teams to be a bit cautious at the start of the match, but not so. From the whistle both teams started well, it was end to end stuff.
We are usually guilty of starting a game slow, but we actually came flying out the traps so to speak, we had a chance to score on a couple of occasions within the first 10 mins but didn’t get our shots off quick enough or the shot was blocked on the line.
On one of their attacks about 15 mins in to the game, earned them a corner. This was put high and right in the center of our goal, our keeper got a hand to it and parried it out to the start of our box and there was a scurry of bodies fighting for the ball by both teams, we did have a chance to clear it but didn’t. There striker was first to connect, his shot went low into the right corner. So the vipers took a bit of a shock lead considering we had most of the play up to this point. I can safely say we had a barrel load of chances but just couldn’t seem to find the net, I felt so frustrated for the boys as they were playing really well in fact the best game I’ve seen them play to date. I watched them play some really good football today there passing was excellent you could see them looking up before they passed which was great, but the one thing that was lacking was there finishing. But with all their hard work, in the 22nd minute Taylan picked up the ball just inside there half, passed to Sean on the right wing he then crossed the ball into the center of their goal which landed at Kieran’s feet who turned and was just about to shoot when the defender came into tackle, the shot rebounded off there defender and came back out to Taylan who was standing at the edge of their box he took two touches one to control the ball and the other was a sweet right footed shot straight down the center of their goal and into the back of the net, it was a good goal and some good link up play before it. Half time 1 v 1.
We came out the second half firing on all guns, in the first 10 mins we were flying again, the passing and movement off the ball was a joy to watch. We had chance after chance to score but just couldn’t find that finish. We had limited their chances down to one or two and our defense was doing so well, but football is a funny game. And in the 12min we came unstuck a slack pass in the midfield went straight to their team who broke very quickly and scored their second goal, we didn’t deserve to be 2 v 1 down at this point, as we were playing extremely well. But credit to the team they kept fighting for every ball.
It was like the Alamo in their goal area, as we kept probing for that all important equalizer, 19 minutes into the second half, Lewis B picked the ball up on the half way line and started down the center towards their goal as the defense came out to meet him he spotted Sean out wide on the right and put a defense splitting pass into space which Sean ran onto just at the right hand side of their box, as the keeper came out to close him down Sean shot for goal slotting the ball into the left hand corner of the net.
We had scored two good goals to bring us level and as I said before they were playing well, tackling, passing and there movement was excellent. Lewis M was undoubtedly the play maker throughout the game. Playing in defense with Jose they rarely seemed to be troubled and work hard and well together they stopped a lot of the opposition attacks. But it was the set up play from Lewis M that shone today, he never got flustered on the ball, always looked up before passing and I don’t think he lost one challenge, he always came out with the ball, his all round game was very good.
23 mins deep into the second half, we shot ourselves in the foot again, we lost the ball in the midfield and they broke down the right. Quite a tall lad there striker was and as our defense came to tackle he seemed to brush off the challenge and carry on running our keeper done the right thing in coming out to close down the shot but it was a good shot and a good goal 3 v 2. We had two more chances after that, but yet again our finishing let us down I still can’t believe we lost that game. I think I know what our next training session will be on lol.
Just a quick mention for the new lads that have joined our team.
Lewis Blore our new keeper had a fine game, made some really good saves and is very quick at making decisions whether or not to come out and close down players that get passed our defense.
I also put him out on pitch where he seemed quite comfortable; he took a free kick from the right which would have been a goal if not for the defender on the line who didn’t really know a lot about the ball striking his back as he turned away from the shot.
Jamil Omar, small in size and looks quite timid, but looks is deceiving. He’s like a little terrier in the midfield, his tackles are strong and he’s not scared to muck in whether in midfield or tracking back to help out in defense. He too had a good game.
Ollie played well on the left wing and there defense found it quite hard to cope with his pace down the left, He was very unlucky not to score in the twentieth minute, as the ball broke to him just inside there box, there keeper tried to close him down but with quick feet he managed to lob the keeper, but hit the post.
Kieran I thought worked very hard playing as the lonely striker; although he never got on the score sheet he created a lot of chances for the midfield players. For most of the game he had two players marking him, but this didn’t seem to worry him. His passing was very good and he always came back into midfield to help win the ball back, never stopped running
On the whole I couldn’t fault any of the team for their commitment and effort they put into this game, I said to my team before kick-off, win, lose or draw, if they enjoy it and put in 100% then that’s all I can ask from them. They certainly did that today well done boys. And hey boys keep your heads up you didn’t deserve to lose today, the worm will most definitely turn for you boys if you play like that every week. (Ask your parents what this means)
Cheers
Paul
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