Welcome to Sunday League Football.
MATCH PREVIEW
After a few weeks off it’s good to be back playing footy for the last 2 games of an exciting season!
Alan and Ian lead the pack and are this week’s captains. Both know a win today is massive!
Let’s have a great game lads, see teams below! See you there 👊
TEAMS
MATCH REPORT
After a few weeks of hit and miss, this seemed to be reflected in the game. The quality was probably average at best and by no means a classic.
However the Reds started the game off in blistering fashion by finishing virtually every chance they had. Ian, Martin and Balf kept linking up beautifully and ran into a 5-0 lead. With Pete and Ste solid in defence and Alan W making supporting runs from the back, the Blues were really struggling to get out of their own half for 20 minutes.
When the Blues did get a rare opportunity, they couldn’t finish with a combination of good goalkeeping and poor finishing. It has to be said Pete was outstanding at the back and seemed to block, jockey or intercept every attack from the Blues.
With the game so one sided a change was made with Tommy switching to the Reds and Ste coming to the Blues.
With Ste now making the Blues more solid at the back, this allowed the Blues attacking players to push up more and the chances started coming. However they still couldn’t finish and the Reds continued to score and went 8-0 up.
Credit to the Blues, they kept pushing and pushing despite a massive uphill task. Eventually they got that goal through a lovely finish from Dim and the confidence definitely increased with the breakthrough. The Reds were guilty of maybe being a bit complacent with such a big lead, a few more goals came from the Blues and the deficit was reduced to 4 goals.
The Blues tails were up and sniffing a miracle comeback result with 10 minutes to go. Unfortunately for them the Reds started to manage the game better and every time the Blues scored, the Reds would hit them straight back to keep them at arms length.
The Reds definitely deserved the win this week after such a strong start, however the Blues walked away with some pride restored after a spirited 2nd half. Roll on next week!
MAN OF THE MATCH
Pete was this weeks MOTM with 7 votes. He doesn’t normally play in defence, but he showed his football intelligence with just being in the right place at the right time throughout the game. As well as defending brilliantly he started off the Reds attacks with classy distribution. Was the only contender for MOTM this week well played Pete! 👏
The remaining votes went to:
Martin with 1
Dim with 1
Alan W with 1
Ste with 1
KEY STATS
Alan remains top by a point, however If Ian makes an appearance next week he will be the champion of season 3 as Alan is away. A loss would mean level points with Alan but due to having more votes he would finish 1st.
Ian will want that victory next week though as it will mean he matches previous champions Ryan and Jons record of winning 7 games in a season!
LEAGUE TABLE
SUNDAY LEAGUE FOOTBALL 