On Tuesday evening we heading down to Calday to play on their newly floodlight pitch. It looks great but we were here to cause a stir!! After some encouraging performances and with some boys playing at a higher level I felt that we would give Calday a good game. The score in the end does not suggest it but I felt we did. It is the work rate that impresses me. It is a tough game and at time you just have to do the simple things well, pass, control and move the ball at pace giving the ball to our players.
In the first half we did that but silly mistakes cost us and we were two down!! Conceding corners was our downfall and we were punished with Sam O'Connell deputising in goal we made it hard for him and their accurate shooting and close finishing saw them increase their lead to four. At times we had good patches of play and for 20 mins in the second half had the lions share of the ball but to no avail, until we broke quickly through the middle through Dennis tenacity and playing the ball through to Edge whose deft touch played it in the path of Farrington who finished strongly. We had a sniff but further opportunities that fell the way of man of the match Dennis didn't materialise.
We were unfortunate in my eyes to lose 6-1, but mistakes count for a lot! But again encouraging displays from Oldham, Eastwood, Ollerhead, Farrington, Edge and the U15 boys whom played their part. We are definitely going in the right direction and with performances like Dennis's we can only get better.
AJM
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