Red: Tufan, Jeremy, Gerald, Jared, Matt
Yellow: Paul, James, Adam, Dan, JP
A slow uptake eventually became 5-a-side…believe!
The night before Jeremy said the going was fair to soft. An overnight deluge made it soft. And wet. And muddy and the rain continued as we kicked off.
The first half of the first half was scrappy, both teams struggling to read the pitch. Red were more assured and pressed hard whilst Yellow kept making silly mistakes…too short passes, inaccurate passes, passes across the back. Eventually the 0-0 deadlock was broken, Red broke down a Yellow attack and released Tufan down the right channel who fired low into the bottom far corner. 10 minutes later he repeated the exact same break and within five minutes they were three up. Our canine interrupter this match was a lovely young Alsatian. Twice.
Yellow decided to press and shoot in the second half but whilst dealing with a red corner Paul deflected a corner between the post and his keeper for an own goal. 4-0 within two minutes of the re-start.
Jeremy hoisted a route one ball over the top and Tufan pounced on the less than committed defender and keeper duo to stroke home.
Amongst the tit-for-tat scoring Adam scored a lovely rising back-spinning drive that took a couple of light deflections on the way into the postage stamp of the top corner. Tasty. This was surpassed by Gerald taking the ball out to the right wing and lofting a lovely arcing ball that soared over the Yellow defence and in.
Matt and Gerald both chalked up a couple of great saves, Matt’s probably edging it with lightening reaction from a JP header, low back where it came from, did everything right.
Paul lobbed in from 20 yards, JP slotted in after some nice passing. In a melee Daniel shot twice and the eventual deflection fell for James who slotted in to bring the deficit to one with three minutes to go.
Good fun. Second half defo better than first.
Final score: Red 6 – 5 Yellow