Welcome to Sunday League Football.
MATCH PREVIEW
First of all congratulations to the Balfours on their new baby Willow!! As expected Balf is missing for todays game as much as he wanted to play 😂
Alan and Andy are this weeks captains see below for teams and colour shirts.
Let’s have a more positive atmosphere this week lads! 8 games left this season plenty to play for let’s have a cracker! 👊
TEAMS
MATCH REPORT
This week saw a cracking match and a really good feel to it.
The Blues raced out of the blocks with 3 quick goals and everyone thought this could be a walkover.
Credit to the Reds they put in a real shift and kept breaking in numbers. As soon as the Blues lost the ball in attack Elliot, Martin and John raced forward with pace and found themselves 3v2 against Nathan and Ryan. El had his shooting boots on and kept hammering goals in leaving Andy with no chance.
This became a real problem for the Blues as they conceded 7 goals in a row and were 4 goals back. One of these goals was from Tony G who banged in an absolute rocket into the top corner. Unstoppable. The Reds were massively on top.
A quick stoppage in play gave the Blues a chance to sort their tactics out and try get a foothold in the game. It started to work as Ian and Dim found themselves having more touches of the ball in midfield and forcing the Reds deep into their half. On top of that the Blues became more aggressive in their tackling and stopped giving the space to the Reds. Goal after goal then followed and in the blink of an eye it was level.
The Blues looked certain to win as they were piling the pressure on the Reds defence. But the Reds started defending better with the experience of Alan and Tony G settling things down. Ste in goal was also making some crucial saves.
The Blues ended up edging a goal up with only 5 minutes left and looked like they were going to snatch it. Ian thought he had scored to go 2 up but this was disallowed due to Stes call in net. Big moment in the game. The Reds then brought it back level to set up a tense finish.
The killer blow came with a few minutes to go when Elliot was stuck in the corner, but with some skill and pure willpower managed to get himself across the area and fire in the winner for the Reds! Soft goal from the Blues point of view but what a match winning moment for the Reds.
The Reds take the 3 points for the win in what was an enjoyable match. Roll on next week!
MAN OF THE MATCH
A close one to call this week which is why we have a tie for MOTM with Alan and Elliot receiving 4 votes a piece!
Alan was a cool customer at the back, never gave the ball away, tackled well and just played it forward nice and simple. Excellent form.
Elliot was unstoppable this week with another pacey and skillfully performance. Scored the pivotal goals.
Well played lads!
Remaining votes went to:
Ste with 1
Dim with 1
Tony G with 1
Ryan with 1
KEY STATS
Ryan has now lost 5 games in a row 🙈 what’s happened?
Alan’s the only player to have played all 3 games this season with 100% win rate. Will he be season 3 champ?
Dim has 10 votes from 3 games. Can he break the record?
LEAGUE TABLE
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