2010-02-21 Dartford YMCA Green 4 vs 1 Under 10s Gold

Another battling performance from the team. With Jack away on holiday, Zachary having had an operation and Alex unavailable it meant that today we were having to play in terrible conditions with only 6 players against opponents who had the luxury of a substitute! In fact to show what a bad day it was even our coach Seb was on crutches!

From the first whistle no one would have realised that we were a player short as it was us who made by far the better start. In midfield and going forward Shania, Amy and Deniz were passing the ball well and winning most of the 50/50 tackles. Down the right hand side Reece was having a great game constantly going past YMCA's defenders and setting up some decent chances. When Dartford had the ball Zak did well breaking up play and any shots they had Connor comfortably dealt with. It was against the run of play when Dartford took the lead when they scored a break away goal. Not detered we continued to be the better side, and the players can count themselves somewhat unlucky to go in to half time behind.  

Unfortunately the second half could not have started any worse as within a minute of the restart YMCA had scored again to take a 2 goal lead. However, it didn’t take long to get ourselves back in to the game when some good play between Shania and Reece resulted in a pass through to Deniz who took a touch and then did well to finish low in to the corner. Having put in so much effort and given their all it seemed that the heavy pitch was beginning to take its toll as understanably the players started to tire a little. I’m sure that this was the reason behind Darford scoring another 2 goals! 

In terrible conditions it’s a big well done to both teams, but especially to our boys and girls as taking everything in to account it was a good performance and the fact that  Dartford were made to work hard for their victory is a credit to all the players. I'd say that the final scoreline of 4 - 1 somewhat flatters them as on chances created it was a lot closer. 

Managers player of the match - Reece, Always involved, set up chances, and possibly his best performance so far this season, keep it up!

Parents player of the match - Amy, Yet another tireless performance, full of energy and some great tackles and passing.              

Written By David Garrard