QE Girls Vs East Durham College

With the weather as expected for the middle of November is was time for Amber and Charlotte to lighten the mood with a Domino's pizza and a packet of smurf haribos. Again due to injury we didn't have a named goalkeeper so Aimee Black offered to go in first half and because of the nice team we are playing only 9 player accommodate the lack of players the other side had. We lined up with a 3-4-1 formation with our star striker Kate being up top.

East Durham started the game strong and taking the lead quickly into the first half, but after some good play down the right hand side from Eleisha to Kate who then went down in the box from a bad tackle we were awarded a penalty. Who no-one was up for taking so Amber nominated Eleisha which proved a good choice considering she put it away nicely in the top corner. Some good defending from Beth, Kaye and Beth saw East Durham struggling to score, and after numerous chances we managed to get the ball back into their own half. Charlotte Conn running down the left hand side breaking in between the defence and had a chance to score shyly missed the near post to get us into the lead. Suddenly one of their girls made a miraculously recovery so we could play with 10 players now lining up 3-4-2 as manager Gary saw an opportunity for us to take the lead. Good midfield play from Amanda and Kelsey provided us with another opportunity but we with a good save from the keeper we were denied. With 10 minutes remaining a sudden loss of concentration made the opposition have a chance of scoring in which they used to their advantage. 2-1. Half time came and with a short team talk we were back on the pitch and ready to go with a change of keeper Tanisha went in.

We had built-up a small group of spectators on the sideline consisting of the rugby lads who were great supporters and with their encouragement and us being awarded a free-kick on the edge of the box Eleisha again scored for us in the top corner put us level with twenty minutes to go. The remaining minutes were battled out with some tackles flying in and missed opportunities from both sides. There were definite positives to be taken from the game and from an overall perspective the team played well.