Away to Ashton Boys 18-02-07  

Action shots from the match

A TEAM LINED UP AS FOLLOWS

                              Brandon Clark

Lewis Holt                                              Ryan  Lewis

 Jacob Moore            Owen Skinner            Eli Britton

                              Dan Wetmore

SUBS

Dan Bowden

Rhys Greenland

1st half

In a game we find to be hard the boys were given a team talk to get them all fired up and it seemed to work as the boys went on to the pitch all set for a battle and the game didn't disappoint.  

Ashton kick-off and we set about our task in a well organised fashion with all the players wanting the ball and looking to play a nice passing game. Ashton were first on the attack but the defence stood strong and any shoots that did get through were well dealt with by our captain and goalkeeper Brandon. After some good midfield play by Owen and Eli they pick out an inch perfect pass to free the Birdman who scores at the second attempt after Ashton keeper pulled of a good save from his first shoot 1-0.  

Ashton start to force the pace of the game a little more and get a good strike away on target but Brandon has it covered until it takes a deflection and ends up in the net to make it 1-1. We then wake back up and force Ashton on to the back foot. Ryan has a good strike on goal but the Ashton keeper saves well to keep the score at 1-1 at half-time.  

2nd half

We kick the second half off and go straight on the attack forcing Ashton onto the back foot and win a number of corners which they manage to force away. From one of the corners the keeper makes a great save to stop Eli from making it 2-1. Rhys then blocks an Ashton attack and we break down the right wing. Dan releases a pass to Owen who side steps his marker and unleashes an unstoppable shot that hits the underside of the crossbar and in.  2-1 to Frys.  

Ashton continue to press looking for the goal to make it 2-2 but the defence is in no mood to make it easy for them, forcing all their attacks back until the dying seconds of the game when Ashton score a scrappy goal to make the final score 2-2.  

M.O.M ; OWEN SKINNER He was outstanding in the centre of midfield and scored a wonder goal to cap an brilliant game by him.

B' TEAM LINED UP AS FOLLOWS

                                    Ellis Jones

Josh Seeley                                                    Dan Ferris  

Josh James                    Matthew Maggs           Oliver Taylor  

                                   Callum Jones

Subs

Charlie Dunn

Harry Scott

1st half  

We soaked up the early pressure with stout defending by Josh and a good save by Ellis which he didn't know much about.  

After further pressure the Frys defence finally broke and Ashton went 1-0 up after four minutes. A further goal was on the cards and after six minutes Ashton scored again to make it 2-0, despite some dogged defending by Dan.  

Despite Frys coming back into the game with some good touches by Matthew, Ashton hit Frys on the break to make it 3-0. The remainder of the half was dominated by the midfield with Josh, Charlie and Matthew showing up well. The half finished 3-0 to Ashton.  

2nd half  

Frys started the second half well and after some early pressure Matthew made a good run which ended in a good shot being well saved by their keeper.  

Ashton came back into the game and were only stopped from going further ahead by some good defending. With ten minutes gone Ashton scored to make it 4-0, and then they quickly followed that up with number five to make it 5-0.  

Despite the result there were some good performance’s out there.  

M.O.M ; JOSH SEELEY He was the rock at the heart of all the good play by the team and solid in defence to.  

NOTE 1; I would like to thank all the players and parents for their support in recent weeks as I know it has been hard training and having no matches at the end of it.

NOTE 2 ; We hopefully will have four teams running next year at under nines as two of the parents have stepped forward to run the team on match days.