Lea Valley - 16 November 2008

Lea Valley v Minchenden Youth under 14's
Score: lost 2 -1
Scorer - Jay

Another good game on Sunday and although we lost it was exiting to watch. I hope that I will soon be saying that it was exiting to watch and that we won! Overall we played well on a pitch that must have last been used by a team of midgets.

Although they had a few attacks and Jeremy made some good saves, they didn't seem very good up front. They took the lead midway through the first half with a good goal from range. We held them for the rest of the half without really creating any clear cut chances.

Their defence seemed shakey and every time we put pressure on them they got flustered and usually kicked it off for a throw or a corner. We need to take this into account the next time we play them. They got another goal with about 15 minutes left to make it 2 - 0. We then changed our formation and went with 3 strikers. This put them under more pressure and we finally got the goal we deserved with 7 minutes left. We kept on attacking but could not get the equalizing goal that we needed.

My favorite move of the game was when Andy (Alex's dad) ran up the line with the linesmans flag and fell in the mud. Did anyone see it, it was very funny.

Next week will be more difficult as we are playing Enfield FC away. The following week we are playing Harlow Town, a game we should win. I will let you all have details at training.

Player ratings for the match v Lea Valley are as follows:

Jeremy 9
Alex 7
James B 7
Martin 8
Jake 8
Elliot 8
Sam 7
James 8
Ciaran 8
Tray 7
Jay 7
Yousiff 7
Max 7
Luke 7
Nelson 7
Rhys 7

Man of the match - Jeremy

See you Wednesday


John