To Win when not playing well …. A sign of a good team

Today’s squad Frankie, Reynolds, Jack, Morgan, Edonis, Jed, Tom, Saul,Louis, Connor, Gabe, Theo, Joel,Chris and Joey.

Once again Captain Morgan won the Toss !! What can i say …..

We started the first half far too slow. Too many touches at the back and not getting the ball wide quickly. Very little in the way of chances and if anything we were letting them dictate to us in midfield. Up front they had only one player but far to often we were letting ourselves end up one on one. After 15 minutes, Reynolds played the ball into the box Connor laid the ball back to Gabe who’s shot went straight at the keeper. With 30 minutes gone they broke and the forward was though on goal, Frankie came out quickly and got a good foot into block the run/shot. Last 10 minutes Tom hit the cross bar from a corner. Plenty of pressure lots of corners but we never got any real clear cut chances. 0.0HT

Second half and we were on the front foot, still i felt susceptible to the counter attack as too often we pushed up too much. Main thing of note for me was you did start to get it wide but it all went down the right, No cross field ball, No switching play we didn’t use the fact that we had a extra player to our advantage. Finally we did get the ball down the left Jed made a good run and forced the corner. Connor played a short corner to Chris who drove into the box and unleashed a curling right foot shot that dipped into the top corner. Really good goal.

Final twenty and we still had the play but could not fashion a clear cut chances. Joel had a half chance and so did Jed but nothing would drop. With 30 minutes the ball was played into the box and Connor hit it first time with his left (old Swinger) and it flew into the bottom corner another really good goal. From that you saw there heads drop and the last 10 (or should i say five as the referee blew up early) you were in Cruise control. 2.0 FT

A strange game you played no where near as good as you can or did last week, yet scored two fantastic goal. Some of the play was two frantic and sometimes just too slow.

MoTM  A couple of mentions Frankie had his first clean sheet of the season and made a good save in each half. Louis had a good game at right back in the second half, keeping close to winger and playing good balls forward. Today’s MoTM was Morgan in the first half alone he manged to clear the danger about eight times when left one on one and sometimes it looked like he was defending on his own. Too often full backs got caught up field and the defense didn’t move across to cover the danger quick enough. Also if a defender is holding an attacking player up players getting back  should try to win the ball back from the blindside and close them down give them no space.

Training is at Ashmole tomorrow night see you at 6.30 PM