Yellow: Gerald, Tufan, Bruno, Pedro, Andy, Richard N
Red: Eliseu, Liam, Nick, Ahmet, Daniel, Jim
From almost cancelled to 6-a-side with a few new faces to keep us alive – welcome!
A very even game. For the first, Pedro laid off for Daniel down the wing who crossed first time to Eliseu who stroked in. That’s about it for the first half. Apart from Daniel curving a perfectly weighted low cross from Eliseu over the bar from two metres out of the goal. What an April fool. A shocking, miss-of-the-season contender. And Pedro took on JP’s mantra with dragbacks-a-plenty.
Yellow equalised shortly after the break. Daniel got a ball in the face but after realising that it wasn’t that bad (despite much concern from both teams), he said play on. Red ignored this and stopped. Tufan took full advantage of the Red statues, ran with the ball down to the goal line and shot in at the near post from a tight angle. 1-1 and all to play for.
Up until this point it had been very even but Red exhibited some clinical finishing, taking it to 5-1. Nick tried to dribble out of goal but passed it straight to Gerald who side footed it into the empty net to provide hope and Bruno and Jim also went close but the woodwork got in the way. It really wasn’t one-sided but a few more goals from Red ensured a confident win.
Final score: Yellow 3 – 9 Red