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Match result

TeamGirls U14 -
OppositionThornton Dale
Kick off10:30am 12/02/2011
Score5-0

Match report   Next up for the Foxes on a wind and rain swept day was Thornton le Dale. The question was, could the Foxes keep their impressive run of 3 successive wins without conceding a goal going? The answer was an emphatic yes!

On with the game and in the opening seconds Abby set the tone, with a great run down the left, for her to cut into to the penalty area onto her favoured right foot and drive a ferocious shot narrowly wide. A couple of minutes later and Dani exploited some space down the right to fire a low cross across the face of gaol for Sophie M to latch onto and bury into the bottom corner. It wasn’t long until the Foxes were 2 to the good when Dani picked up a loose clearance on the right hand side of the area to lash it across the goalkeeper into the bottom left corner to put the Foxes 2 up. That’s 4 in 3 games for Dani!

A host of chances then followed, with Sophie M, Abby who will never ever come closer to scoring with the goalie making a last ditch incredible dive to deny her and Emily all coming close. Then in another neat move down the right Dani put Amy in the clear for her to slot home and put the Foxes 3 up. There was then much debate about the need for goaline technology, when on 2 occasions it appeared the Foxes had scored. Once when Emily lashed the ball in from a tight angle where it appeared to ripple the back of the net and come out and another instance where I’m told the ball had appeared to cross the line. At the end of the day, if the ref doesn’t give them they’ll just have to go down as near misses.

On with the game and the half closed with both Georgie and Sandy also coming close. I should also say that the defending was absolutely terrific with Sophie G, Laura, Josie and Sandy always looking so assured in containing the TD attacks and also looking very comfortable on the ball and never ever wasting possession. The half finished with the Foxes 3 to the good.

On with the 2nd half and the Foxes were once again quickly into their stride, although the TD girls somehow managed to hold out for the 1st 10 minutes with us peppering their goal with shots from all sorts of angles. The pressure had to finally pay and when Emily threw over a cross/shot which evaded the goalie’s despairing dive, there was Amy to apply the finishing touch with her backside. It was a bit of a bum goal!

The final goal was a very nice individual effort from Emily, who showed some very good skill to evade a couple TD challenges to power into the penalty area and make it 5. Emily also showed some very good vision late on to spot the keeper off her line and fire in a 30 yard screamer which just went narrowly wide. Abby, Emily, Sophie Dani and Beth W (who also made some great runs down the right) all went close as well. In the dying embers of the game, TD created their only noteworthy chance, however Sofia was equal to it diving full length to parry the ball sideways to be ably assisted by Dani who threw her body I to make a fantastic goaline block, to maintain a 4th consecutive clean sheet for the Foxes.

Julie, the TD coach was very complimentary about the style of football the Foxes were playing and was complaining that it wasn’t fair for her girls as you were too good and were playing proper football! So well done girls another very impressive performance. That’s 4 wins on the bounce, with us scoring 15 in the process and conceding a magical none!

Girl of the game: Abby. Made some great penetrating runs down the left, set up a number of good chances and was unlucky not to get on the scoresheet herself. Well done Abby!

Manager

Trevor Mole
CaptainEmily W
Player of the matchAbby W


Team stats

PlayerPositionContributionGoalsClean sheetsBookings
Sofia MGoalkeeperPlayed full match   
Sandy (Alexandra) ADefencePlayed part match   
Sophie GDefencePlayed part match   
Danielle CMidfieldPlayed part match1  
Laura EMidfieldPlayed full match   
Georgina FMidfieldPlayed part match   
Josie LMidfieldPlayed part match   
Sophie MMidfieldPlayed part match1  
Abby WMidfieldPlayed part match   
Bethan WMidfieldPlayed part match   
Emily W   ©Played full match1  
Amy HForwardPlayed part match2  


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