On a pleasant, but cold early November afternoon, we welcomed the visit of Sunderland college. Skipper wrighty led the warm up as Mark flicked through his iPad for one last time before the game. We started with our familiar 4-3-3 formation, and this didn't really come off in the first half with Sunderland gaining the upper hand and scoring 2 very easy goals on our behalf. At half time, mark made a couple of changes, bringing on the pretty boy pairing of Maddo and Cookson, and changed the formation to 4-4-2, and we played a more direct style of football. Finally in the game we were starting to click and play some very good football, when all of a sudden Grocott decided to tangle legs in our penalty area with their striker and a penalty was conceded. Jamma got a strong right hand to it, however it wasn't strong enough and the score went to 3-0.
Grocott then made up for this 5 minutes later when he played an outrageous through ball to Mophead Edwards up front, who ran onto it and slotted it past the keeper. Denny compared him to Thierry Henry in his prime but I wasn't so sure on the idea. This goal sparked us into life and all of a sudden we were winning every ball in midfield through JL and NW, and in turn, creating lots of openings. Craig hit one straight at the keeper from 2 yards, justifying my disagreement with Hal, and Hutchinson just failed to get on the end of a very good ball in from Wrighty. Despite all of the pressure, we just couldn't score.
Final score QE 1-3 Sunderland.
We take the positives and move onto a massive game against Wakefield in the National Cup. Come on the lads in pinky purple!
Man of the match; John Lorimer and Nathan Joint
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