gU13 26-Jan-08: Stockport County 17-0 Oswald Rd (HT 8-0)

On the 26^th January 2008, Oswald Road Under 13’s girls football team played Stockport County.

Oswald Road team consists of up front Zoe and Kenesha, midfield Tara, Ruqayyah and Katie. In defence was myself (Rudi), Shaye and Sophie, and last but not least goalkeeper Rebecca who played well throughout the match.

Unfortunately we lost 17-0 but even though we are disappointed, we have promised to try harder next match and that we will never give up. The opposition’s player of the match went to Ruqayyah Hashmi and the Manager’s player of the match went to Zoe-Lea Dale.

Oswald road promise to play hard next time.

Rudi

Before the match Roisin called off sick – fortunately everyone else was OK and we had a full team of 9 players. However that didn’t help us much – although we’re now much better than we were before, so are Stockport. Mind you, the gap isn’t 30-0 anymore! Oswald Rd started the game very well – Stockport didn’t score until the 7^th minute, and we also managed to rally quite a few attacks against them – more than we’ve ever had against Stockport before. In fact, in the first five minutes it looked almost an even match as we rebuffed their attacks and launched counter-attacks of our own! Maybe if we hadn’t tried to attack so much we’d have let through fewer goals. The main difference between us this time was that they knew how to finish goals and were faster to the ball. Also they had some very skilful players who needed at least two of our defenders on them – and also Katie and Ruqayyah couldn’t be everywhere. Even with Zoe coming back to help out, we leaked goals and ended the half 8-0 down.

In the second half, we swapped Katie and Becky and, as you’d expect, this made our attack better and our defence worse. Still, until we tired towards the end, we kept Stockport on their toes and held out for appreciable lengths of time. Ruqayyah got Stockport’s vote for Player of the Match because she was everywhere, shoring up our defence and setting up attacks from midfield – yes, she’d remembered her inhaler! Zoe got my vote because she not only kept running forwards for each attack only to be foiled by their good defenders and excellent goalkeeper but she also came back when needed to help out our defence – hmm, I think she must have remembered her inhaler as well! Rudi also played well, with some quick clearances and a good free kick.

Stockport’s report is at http://www.stockportcountyladies.com/NewsItem.aspx?id=93 with a good action picture of Kenesha.

Kamal

Goals: nowt
Opposition’s Player of the Match: Ruqayyah Hashmi
Managers’ Player of the Match: Zoe-Lea Dale
Team: (fwd) Zoë, Kenesha (mid) Tara, Katie, Ruqayyah(c), (def) Shaye, Rudi, Sophie, (gk) Rebecca