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Match result

TeamGirls U14 -
OppositionThornton Dale
Kick off10:30am 26/03/2011
Score0-1

Match report   Thornton Dale were the visitors in a crucial must win league game for the Foxes to maintain our bid 2nd in the league. Once again the Foxes squad was almost stretched to breaking point, only being able to field 8 rather than the regulation 9 players and Sandy bravely stepping in between the sticks.

On with the game and you wouldn’t have noticed that it was the super Foxes with a girl down. The Foxes were doing all the attacking and in a number of great Foxes moves which stretched the Dale defence to their absolute limit, Beth W, Sophie M, Emily and Dani all managed to get in behind the defence and get shots in on goal. However this was going to be one of those days when the Dale keeper was to play a blinder and saving everything we could throw at her. At the back, the Foxes defenders, Sophie G, Beth R and Abby were dealing comfortably with the Dale incursions into our half and Sandy did not have a shot to save for the whole half.

On with the 2nd and for the 1st 10 minutes the rampant Foxes were completely dominant, forcing 8 corners within the space of 5 minutes and coming agonisingly close on a number of occasions, with Sophie M, Beth W, Dani and Abby all getting shot sin from close range, however the Dale net just wouldn’t ripple. Up the over end, the Dale strikeforce got in behind the Foxes defence twice. The 1st time Sandy was off her line very smartly to put the Dale striker off for her to shoot wide. The 2nd time Sandy was again of her line smartly, however this time the Dale striker showed more composure and calmly struck the ball into the back of the Foxes net to put them a goal up. Absolutely nothing Sandy could do to save and very cruel on the Foxes who had been completely dominant up to that point. In the final 10 minutes, the Foxes had to endure Beth W going off for 5 minutes after she took a nasty knock and we were down to 7. This didn’t however stop the wave of Foxes attacks, with Emily breaking through on 2 occasions to force a couple of fine saves from the keeper and then Abby breaking through in an excellent run for the Dale keeper to get her fingertips to it just punch it around the post. In the final minute, Beth W had one more great chance, however the ball must have taken a nasty bobble as she blasted it over the crossbar. This just wasn’t to be the Foxes day, ending in a very harsh 1-0 defeat to Thornton Dale.

This may have been a defeat for the Foxes, but as the manager I was very pleased with the performance. We completely dominated and outplayed the Dale and just didn’t get the rub of the green. No matter, we still have everything to play for. It’s the semi of the cup next week and 2nd place is still within our grasp after Scotton slipped up as well and could only draw with Kanaresborough.

Girl of the game: Beth W - made some great runs, unlucky not to score and was very brave after taking a nasty knock. Well done Beth!

Manager

Trevor Mole
Captain
Player of the matchBethan W


Team stats

PlayerPositionContributionGoalsClean sheetsBookings
Sandy (Alexandra) ADefencePlayed full match   
Sophie GDefencePlayed full match   
Beth RDefencePlayed full match   
Danielle CMidfieldPlayed full match   
Sophie MMidfieldPlayed full match   
Abby WMidfieldPlayed full match   
Bethan WMidfieldPlayed full match   
Emily WPlayed full match   


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