GU12 11-Nov-06:
After some cunning tactical changes (masterminded by Kamal) the Os played some attractive football in this close encounter of the third kind. Only giving them a silly goal straight from the kick off gave Hillgate something to take home. Today strikers Zoe and Tara switched from front to back to deputise for the missing Sophie P. and in a bold move, Katie went in net all game and Becks played up front alongside Sophie A. and Ruq.
This well crafted wizardry soon paid off with Becks looking like an old fashioned centre forward bustling players off the ball and setting up Sophie A. and Ruq to move forward. Our goal was a combination of these three putting some lovely passing together, Becks slipped a ball to Ruq, Sophie moved to space, Becks intelligently moved wide and took a defender with her leaving Ruq a tiny gap to slip a perfect ball through to Sophie A. who was one on one with the keeper. It was like Morecambe and Wise, Ruq set up the joke, and Sophie delivered the punch line.
Chances came and went for both sides and good goalkeeping at both ends kept things even.
The second half started with us allowing the Hillgate striker to literally walk round five (!) players and poke the ball home, and all that hard work was gone to waste. However we battled on. Tanya was graceful and inspirational and made several fabulous forward runs, dancing round the Hillgate defence time and time again.
Again only time denied us what could have been a good win, bearing in mind they beat us 4-2 last time. But, overall, a much better performance than last week. Nice one Kamal!
Mike
Team: SophieA, Tara, Ruqayyah, Zoë, Tanya, Katie, Rebecca
Goals (& Assists): 1st half – SofiA (Ruq)
Opposition’s Player of the Match: Katie
Managers’ Player of the Match: Ruqayyah
No comments:
Post a Comment