Wirral GS v Neston HS

The beginning of the season has arrived playing a competitive friendly away against Neston was the location. It was on the afternoon of an early finish for Open Evening. But good preparation and on our arrival at the Rec a chance to warm up and work on some skills.

We looks pretty good and started the game well going forward, keeping possession and creating chances! Only to find that when you hit the ball straight at the keeper he has a chance of saving it. After the first 15 mins had elapsed and chances gone begging, Plimley finished nicely from close range past the keepers left.

But no sooner had that happen, miscommunication and poor passing between Crawford and Walker lead to their centre forward rifling the ball past Smithy in the roof of the net. We continued to push on and further, what could could only be described, as chances that were harder to miss, were missed. We then took the lead through Evans but again a reply from Neston and some silly mistakes was allowing them into the game.

We moved to a half court and looked to counter attack and get our defensive shape and this improved our play, further runs from Lyness lead to chances that were not taken by our forward line. But a optimistic punt forward from Rid saw Evans in the clear who finished smartly. It was not the end of proceedings as Neston levelled following some poor defending, but a ball fired into the dee was deflected in by Wright to win the game for Wirral 4-3.

In the end we started with a win but things need addressing defensively and this is an area we can work on and also the ability to take our chances as it could have been ten!

AJM