Another fantastic game of football was played out today at the cricket pitch in scotton between two great teams.Unfortunately for scotton it ended in defeat but every one of the players can hold their head up high,as they all put huge performances in.
Riah claimed player of the match for a fantastic performance in goal(thanks to colin for those extra sessions!)although any one of the girls could have received it on today's performances.
Playing down the slope in the first half the girls put all their training into practice and were passing the ball around very well but soon went behind to a sucker punch from the trojan team.
Heads didn't go down though and they pressed forward and soon they had forced an own goal to put the scores level. The rest of the half saw some fine football played by both teams and after one mazy run and rocket of a shot georgia was unlucky to hit the post. We had a debut from sophie grant who fitted in really well and had a fine game with some great tackling and intelligent passing.So all level at half time.
Coming up the slope against a well drilled and fit team such as burley lesser teams would have crumbled but oh no not this scorchers team, again they took the game to burley with wave after wave of attacks. Georgia ended up with two goals for her tremendous efforts, in what i would put down as her best match this season.(Keep up the good work), she was well supported by georgie and molly. The defence played their part again against a fantastic (& Nippy!) striker. Hannah snuffed out attack after attack whilst ellie marshalled things really well and rebecca s got up and down the wings well.Sine and emma were awesome when called upon to help their team in their cause.Unfortunately the team picked up a few injuries and we had to juggle things around a bit and in the end we went down 4-3,but lets not be down because today we saw great improvements in the team and I believe as a team we can only get better. Bring on old mods in two weeks!
Hope all the injuries clear up soon and look forward to seeing all the girls back at training next saturday.
So here's looking forward
Andy.
COME ON THE SCORCHERS!
