QE Girls VS New College Durham Girls

On what was a cold Wednesday afternoon we set off to play New College on 3G with only 10 players. A drop-out from our goalkeeper also meant that we would need to change up half way through which we knew could be a big problem for us. After arriving we only had 5 minutes until kick-off, whilst Amber bought her pre-match crisps the team was ready to have a little jog over to the other side of the pitch as a warm-up, great start.

We lined with a 4-4-1 formation with Kelsey being the lone striker, we found in hard in the first ten minutes having the one less player and after giving away a free-kick on the edge of the penalty area New College were 1-0 up. Straight from the kick off from some good play out wide to Kate Merryweather we managed to get a throw-in near to their box. Kate threw the ball to Amber, and with a great showboat, backheeling it between two defenders back to Kate and with an outstanding strike from outside the box she lobbed the keeper, we were back in it. However, straight from kick-off down their right hand side their winger got the ball and scored in the box. Half time 2-1 down.

Gary changed the keeper and Emma went in goal, we then put Kate upfront and Kelsey on the wing. The main aim “just get the ball to Kate” as quoted from the manager. Which is what we did. After some good play by the midfield and ball through from Amber to Kate she took a shot with 3 players around her in which the keeper parried it into her own net. 2-2.

Amber broke away with a good ball from Eleisha but as the sun was beaming in her eyes she couldn’t see and with a great save from the keeper she was prevented what would have been the vital winner. Good defending throughout the game from Beth, Kaye, Aimee and Amanda made sure New College were denied the winner.

5 minutes later and with only a few minutes left Kate broke again down the right hand side after good play from Charlotte Firth, Kate managed to get round 4 players one after the other and score the winner. A great team performance and a well-deserved win going into the next game. Haribos all round next week!

(wo)man of the match –Kate Merryweather

Beth Edgar

Aimee Black

Kaye Deighton

Amanda Ormston

Emma Tummelty

Charlotte Firth

Kelsey Holmes

Kate Merryweather (3)

Amber Hemming (C)

Eliesha Singh