Reds Start Season Top of the League

The boys training on Saturday had a very exciting feeling about it with tension building for the start of the season.

Sundays match started with the team playing downhill. New boy Eric was in goal and Brandon Reece was in defence. Jordon, James and Tom were in midfield and Ryan was the sole striker.

Straight away Forest had a number of attacks, one of which led to Thames giving away a corner. Paul, the manager, called for James to take it and what a right decision that was as the ball came down just in front of the goalie. Ryan wasjust in the right spot to head the ball into the back of the net. 1-0 Reds and Ryan’s first ever goal with his head.

The first half saw some outstanding football from the Reds as they must of had 80% of the play in the Thames half. Tom was having his best play yet in midfield, as he normally plays in defence, but he was making some outstanding tackles.  Sometimes he took on 2 players and still managed to find the way to pass the ball to Ryan’s feet. With Brandon and Reece in defence it was very hard for the Thames’ attack to come anywhere near Eric in goal. The only ball that was getting through to the Red’s goal was long shots which Eric very coolly caught in his hands.

Jordon was in the centre of midfield and playing some good skilful football. Brandon, the captain, kept shouting to his players when on the attack.

Half time came and the effort from the boys showed with there very red faces. It was starting to show now what a tough game this was becoming. Within 5 minutes of the second half Thames managed to get a sloppy goal past the defence leaving Eric with no chance of making a save and Thames had equalised.

5 minutes later with the parents nail biting on the side line the ball was in the Thames box being kicked around by a number of Forest players. The Thames goalie had pushed the ball back out to Ryan and Tom who both struck the ball at the same time. The shot took a deflection of a Thames’ player and went into the back of the net. The goal was awarded to Tom and 2-1 to the Reds.

Minutes later Reece kicked the ball up pitch to Ryan who made a super run crossing to James who smacked the ball into the net for 3-1 to the Reds. Jordon was substituted for Troy who slotted into the midfield position and straight away there was a few headers going on in the midfield which led to Tom winning the ball and driving up the field to Reece. Reece then passed to Ryan, the ball went into the air and with that Troy kicked the ball in to the net for the Red’s fourth.

It was a well deserved win to Forest Glade Reds

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