gU13 16-Feb-08: Deans Sports 9-1 Oswald Rd (HT 3-1)

Awaiting match report.

Katie

Shaye and Becky were on holiday for this 2008 rematch against Deans so we only had 8 players but after another good training session on Thursday, we were confident that we wouldn’t fall apart as we had in our first match of 2008. In fact we had another best ever match for the season! Since our no.1 was gallivanting away on holiday, we put Katie in goal. Rudi took Shaye’s position at left back instead of in the middle with Ruqayyah and Tara performing the other main defensive duties.

We started really well, stopped Dean’s first couple of attacks and passed the ball around brilliant from the back to the front. Tara blocked one attack but Deans got the ball back with some good aggressive midfield play. Then Ruqayyah intercepted a Deans pass and, moving forward quickly, she looked up and saw Kenesha out wide – she passed the ball to Kenesha who took off like a rocket but quickly came up against the Deans defence and she put a great through ball to Zoe who ran onto the ball and slotted it past the Deans goalie! We were in the lead! Our first ever lead in the season! Deans were energised – remember they had a full team and we only had 8 players – and came at us hard but, unlike earlier in the year, we were not cowed and fought back just as fiercely. We held off attack after attack and even launched some more attacks but their defence swarmed around Roisin and Zoe, preventing them from scoring another. Finally Deans broke through our defence with a swift passing move that ended in a cross to an unmarked player who scored in the 15^th minute. At the end of a very hard fought half, Deans had scored twice more but our defence had played extremely well and we had given them several more scares with our midfield and forward play.

In the second half we started tiring but still played well – Deans managed to stop us scoring and they scored their goals in two flurries, one in the middle of the half and one near the end of the match. They had started using their extra player to good effect, overloading our defenders with quick attacks but we still carried on playing well and didn’t lose our heads. We made them fight for every goal. Well done Ozzie Girls!

Kamal

Goals: Zoë(Kenesha) 5’
Opposition’s Player of the Match: Zoë-Lea Dale
Managers’ Player of the Match: Roisin Blythin-Hammond
Team: (fwd) Roisin, Zoë (mid) Tara, Ruqayyah, Kenesha (def) Rudi, Sophie, (gk) Katie(c)