Good Afternoon. First off someone has gone home with one of my white water bottles, Please can you bring to training tomorrow night. LOL

Lunch time kick off was no issue for us, you were all there early and raring to go. We started the game really well and had the first sustained pressure Charney and Reynolds had the first few chances and were unlucky. With 10 minutes gone Connor picked the ball up from a opposition clearance he fed the ball to Callum, who Cooley finished against a on rushing keeper. It was a really good finish.

From this point we had all the chances and the pressure. Connor hit the post when he should of scored and then the defender cleared on the line on the follow up. With 17 Mins gone Nick decided to Freshen thing up and brought on Faizan,Theo and Joel. Lets say it was a inspired substitution, within a minute neat triangles between Faizan, Connor and Theo resulted in Theo being put clear, who then finished well. Faizan had a couple of chances towards the end of the first half and so did Theo. The defence held really well and Louis and Joey broke up play continuously in midfield. Josh was commanding in goal during the half and made some great throws to set up counter attacks. Half time 2.0

Second half started and the wind really picked up making it very tricky to play against. Again you started really well Charney had a great chance in the first minute then Reynolds chased down what looked like a lost cause and with some help from Callum they won the ball back, Reynold turn and shot was excellent 3.0 (Just as his uncle arrived to watch). After this i felt you dropped your pace, stopped closing down as quickly and invited them on maybe a bit too over confident. A couple of times we over committed and it took some desperate defending  from Morgan, Saul Tom and Edonis to keep them from scouring. However the pressure finally told and they scored a really goal 3.1 20 minutes to go.

Nick decided to rotate again to allow some of you a breather and freshen things up. This seemed to work as you all started to close down again. The wind against us made it hard but you kept battling. Then suddenly out of no where Edonis hits a shot on the half volley and it flys into the back of the net, Beckham style from the half way line. 4.1 OK the wind may of had something to do with it but it was a good strike. However the winds contribution did not end their and with 10 minutes to go they hit a speculative shot that drifted in 4.2, not closing down quick enough on our part.

The last 10 minutes still produced some great moment Tom hit a free kick that just went wide and then a couple of minutes later hit another free kick from Tom that Reynolds got a bullet header on to which hit the side netting. Joel broke down the right a couple of times and little bit quicker passing could of set up some chances. We finished the stronger side and probably should of scored at least one more.

I thought you all played really well today and there was probably 3 or 4 of you who were contenders for MoTM, it went to Theo Rubins on his debut. Theo took his goal really well but also worked tirelessly down the right, winning more tackles he should of and closing the opposition down.

Training tomorrow night hopefully not raining as much as last week.

Next week Home to Whetstone Wanderers Nick will confirm details midweek

Just a note to parents about the respect campaign can I please remind parents not to give “direction” to the players during the game. Whist we encourage you all to support and motivate the players please leave “direction” to Nick and myself. We do not want to confuse the players by giving them varying messages. Thanks Everyone