Today we played Poynton’s under 15s team in an end of season friendly, only Hanaan wasn’t available for today’s game, this meant we only had two quality substitutes in Joely and Frankie. When we first arrived at Poynton’s ground I was amazed at how tall their team was, with certain players at least 5 foot 10 inches in height.
Joely and Frankie swapped places with Lucy and Bethany at half time and Ria went up front with Finney having her first chance in net. The first goal of the half and Lisbon’s final goal of the game came on 57 minutes when a rare through ball from Aphra set up Fred who expertly finished giving Poynton’s keeper no chance 0-5. Poynton then scored a great free kick two minutes later 1-5, and this lifted their team spirit, over the next ten minutes Poynton played really well committing more players up front. This paid off and Poynton scored two more goals before the final whistle 3-5.
Poyntons third and final goal was a huge mistake by Laura (sorry Laura), instead of taking the easy option and passing to Frankie (unmarked), Laura decided to take on all of Poynton’s stickers and lost the ball, this gave Finney no chance to save the shot.
Today’s game was yet again another example of poor positional play (this time it was in the second half). Up to now we have always managed to win these games, but your luck won’t last forever, and we have to be professional for the full 70 minutes.
Congratulations on your 18th win of the season (against much bigger and older opposition this time)
Aphra (great game) best defender on the pitch.
Well done – Dave, Pat & Claire
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