Match reports - October 6, 2007
No match report from the 1st XI this week but they came away from Addiscombe with all three points thanks to a 2-0 win.
The 2nd XI lost 0-3 to Woking. Abeed Janmohamed reports: “A better performance than last week still saw us go down 3-0 against the newly-promoted Woking side 3-0. Yet again we struggled to raise a side, having lost players to the 1s and holidays. Thanks to Christian Davis and Wade Pollard For stepping in at the last minute - both played very well. Rob Merry was also forced to cut his six-week lay off following a double fracture to his finger to just two weeks - less than ideal!
The first half saw some good hockey by both sides. We defended well and Mike Smith and Daffy (two new additions to the club) looked dangerous roaming up front. When we were composed on the ball and put together a series of short passes we cut Woking apart. However Woking were equally effective by keeping a high tempo - we were slow to form for free hits and they took advantage of this.
At half time the game was evenly poised. The balance shifted dramatically in the first ten minutes of the second half. We were once again caught on the hop when Tom Merry managed to get in front of his man but was unlucky as the ball bounced off his stick in the air. Woking put the ball down straight away and scored without any real challenge.
One fortunate goal still left us very much in the game but we panicked. We were frenetic on the ball trying ludicrously low percentage long passes - I don't think one hit was actually successful in finding a recipient in the second half. This despite having talked at half time about how good we looked when we strung together short passes and were composed on the ball.
We also crowded around the ball defending their set pieces, which meant they only needed to pierce the initial group of defenders to be in the clear, this they did with alarming regularity. Another soft goal followed shortly after the first. We did then get back into the game. However after a breakaway by one of their attackers Kelson who came out of his D could only clear the ball as far as the next attacker who made no mistake. Despite a determined final surge we were all but sunk.
The 3rd XI were completely outplayed by Purley Walcountians, three goals in each half giving the visitors a deserved win. The game was even for 20 minutes before purley took the lead through a fortuitous goal after the ball appeared to be controlled by the striker via his chest, but thereafter we could have no complaints.
The 2nd XI lost 0-3 to Woking. Abeed Janmohamed reports: “A better performance than last week still saw us go down 3-0 against the newly-promoted Woking side 3-0. Yet again we struggled to raise a side, having lost players to the 1s and holidays. Thanks to Christian Davis and Wade Pollard For stepping in at the last minute - both played very well. Rob Merry was also forced to cut his six-week lay off following a double fracture to his finger to just two weeks - less than ideal!
The first half saw some good hockey by both sides. We defended well and Mike Smith and Daffy (two new additions to the club) looked dangerous roaming up front. When we were composed on the ball and put together a series of short passes we cut Woking apart. However Woking were equally effective by keeping a high tempo - we were slow to form for free hits and they took advantage of this.
At half time the game was evenly poised. The balance shifted dramatically in the first ten minutes of the second half. We were once again caught on the hop when Tom Merry managed to get in front of his man but was unlucky as the ball bounced off his stick in the air. Woking put the ball down straight away and scored without any real challenge.
One fortunate goal still left us very much in the game but we panicked. We were frenetic on the ball trying ludicrously low percentage long passes - I don't think one hit was actually successful in finding a recipient in the second half. This despite having talked at half time about how good we looked when we strung together short passes and were composed on the ball.
We also crowded around the ball defending their set pieces, which meant they only needed to pierce the initial group of defenders to be in the clear, this they did with alarming regularity. Another soft goal followed shortly after the first. We did then get back into the game. However after a breakaway by one of their attackers Kelson who came out of his D could only clear the ball as far as the next attacker who made no mistake. Despite a determined final surge we were all but sunk.
The 3rd XI were completely outplayed by Purley Walcountians, three goals in each half giving the visitors a deserved win. The game was even for 20 minutes before purley took the lead through a fortuitous goal after the ball appeared to be controlled by the striker via his chest, but thereafter we could have no complaints.
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