Crosspool Juniors U10 – v – Stocksbridge Park Steels U10
Sunday 14th October 2007
Another fine autumn day at Coldwell Lane saw the boys up against the team currently at the bottom of the table. Most thought we would win before kick-off….unfortunately Stocksbridge had other ideas.
First Match
Stocksbridge started well with plenty of attacks as the boys from Crosspool seemed to be still wiping the sleep from their eyes. On three minutes we went one nil down. Stocksbridge continued the pressure and Crosspool appeared to have no answers when on seven minutes they converted straight from the corner, two nil. It got worse less than a minute later when they hit us on the break and made it three nil after only eight minutes. After this start it surely couldn’t get worse, and didn’t, as our boys suddenly realised they were in a match. From their last goal it was all Crosspool. On the ten minute mark they pulled one back.
After the break a couple of subs and a change in formation seemed to do the trick and Crosspool looked like a team again. On 25 minutes a good corner was slotted home to make it three two, could we pull it around. The answer came only moments later when a goalmouth scramble resulted in our equaliser. The team were now unstoppable and two further goals made the final score five three to Crosspool……if only they had woken up earlier in the first half.
Second Match
The first match had now paved the way for us to get a comfortable win and early on we looked the more likely to score. To be fair to Stocksbridge their defence worked well and denied attack after attack. Crosspool ended the first half with a hat full of chances that they failed to convert and it ended nil nil.
The second half was much the same but our boys were getting frustrated by the solid defence of the opposition and on 35 minutes we were dealt the sucker punch when we failed to clear our lines.
The remainder of the match saw few chances but finished one nil to Stocksbridge....but the boys had got the three points.
A football term that gets used a lot in Sheffield these days (both red and white) is that any win, even an ugly one will do….this was the Under 10’s ugly win, sometimes the hardest matches of all are these types, so well done to all. They kept going after a bad start and fought back well when lesser teams would have dropped their heads and accepted defeat.
Another fine autumn day at Coldwell Lane saw the boys up against the team currently at the bottom of the table. Most thought we would win before kick-off….unfortunately Stocksbridge had other ideas.
First Match
Stocksbridge started well with plenty of attacks as the boys from Crosspool seemed to be still wiping the sleep from their eyes. On three minutes we went one nil down. Stocksbridge continued the pressure and Crosspool appeared to have no answers when on seven minutes they converted straight from the corner, two nil. It got worse less than a minute later when they hit us on the break and made it three nil after only eight minutes. After this start it surely couldn’t get worse, and didn’t, as our boys suddenly realised they were in a match. From their last goal it was all Crosspool. On the ten minute mark they pulled one back.
After the break a couple of subs and a change in formation seemed to do the trick and Crosspool looked like a team again. On 25 minutes a good corner was slotted home to make it three two, could we pull it around. The answer came only moments later when a goalmouth scramble resulted in our equaliser. The team were now unstoppable and two further goals made the final score five three to Crosspool……if only they had woken up earlier in the first half.
Second Match
The first match had now paved the way for us to get a comfortable win and early on we looked the more likely to score. To be fair to Stocksbridge their defence worked well and denied attack after attack. Crosspool ended the first half with a hat full of chances that they failed to convert and it ended nil nil.
The second half was much the same but our boys were getting frustrated by the solid defence of the opposition and on 35 minutes we were dealt the sucker punch when we failed to clear our lines.
The remainder of the match saw few chances but finished one nil to Stocksbridge....but the boys had got the three points.
A football term that gets used a lot in Sheffield these days (both red and white) is that any win, even an ugly one will do….this was the Under 10’s ugly win, sometimes the hardest matches of all are these types, so well done to all. They kept going after a bad start and fought back well when lesser teams would have dropped their heads and accepted defeat.
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