With Simon away, Derek took the Blues first match of the season and they stormed to a great win over local rivals St Francis. This was Derek's take on the game;
"In the first half, despite some strong attacks from St Francis’s forwards, our defence stood up to everything they had to throw at us. When the odd shot did get through Nathan took command and made some great saves, at the other end we had some good chances but didn’t manage to convert them into goals, so at half time the score remained 0-0.
After a quick team talk at half time we came out and we were the better of the two sides. We used the wings more and it wasn’t long before a ball was slotted through to Ed and we went 1-0 up. We had several more shots on goal, and one disallowed, where the linesman flagged Dan offside (I was standing next to him at the time and he got it so wrong!!). After that subs had to be made due to tired legs and some bad knocks, but we didn’t stop going forward and causing them problems.
Alex Wells came back on after a rest and after some good passing play was sent through on goal and he scored our (official!) second goal. We then went on to have another goal disallowed when Kane was judged to be offside, so the end result was 2-0.
Today, in my match report, I haven’t picked out any individual names for praise, because I feel the squad all deserve praise - today they played as a team and you won as a team. WELL DONE BOYS!"
Man of the Match - George Collett
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credit to Derek for his good use of Subs and the team talk at half time. I agree the second goal was lawful and should have stood, but we in Guildford Saints get on with it.
ReplyDeletewell done to the team and praise for Derek.