We all arrived at the ground in good time today, however we had no idea what pitch we were on so the warm up was all delayed.

Tom won the toss and we licked down hill and with the wind, the match started you all started well our first attack brought a good save from their goalie. We were looking good down the wings with Carl and Charney and were winning the midfield battles. Sunddenly in the 15th minute they broke down the right we had two or three chances to clear but didnt take them agood cross and one nil down. 😦

What i liked now was that there was no arguing or complaining but you encouraged each other and you got your deserved reward. Carl picked the ball in from the left beat only one play and shot – good goal 1.1

Back in the game from now on we had all the play and 5 minutes later you went ahead as Kevin finished a good move. 2.1. Sam then had a great shot from outside the box saved.  Keith ran the changes bringing on Kalid, Frankie and Saul. It was a stoke on managerial genius. More pressure from us and a shot was only parried by the keeper. Saul followed in smash it home from 30 yards – Opps sorry 3 inchs. We ended the first half 3.1 but really it should of been 4 or 5.

Second half was always going to tricky they had the slope, the wind and were always going to play a high line and long ball. Almost straight away we got caught long ball over the top no one went with the runner clean through 3.2

After the silly goal we got back into the game and we created so many chances to kill it off. We were by far the better team, however we overplayed it so many times.

Beat a player put a cross in, don’t always shoot from tight angles. Don’t try to go round players in the box push the ball out of your feet and shoot. If your back is to goal play the ball back to players running in don’t turn into defenders. We must take our chances and we really needed the fourth goal. They held such a high line you needed to put the ball into space and run on to it. Early, early balls don’t let their defenders recover. I remember one early ball from Connor to Charney and we should of scored.

The chances were piling up and Archie’s grandfather said to me “Its got equalizer all over it” and bang on cue they scored Long ball from the back Dubai and Tom couldn’t get the ball down to clear, there player broke down the right good cross, Connor lost his man – goal 3.3 that was with 2 minutes to go DOH !!!

Still we had a chance at the end but we couldn’t put the ball in the net. The Game finished 3.3

Keith’s MotM was – Dubai who worked really hard up down the left all game.

No training on Monday.

Game Tuesday Ashmole Academy School

Cecil Road, London, N14 5RJ Meet 6PM