5 goals does the job!

In a performance against menai 9 rounds ago, it was just one of those games where we had 90% of the possession but only 2 goals. Today, we were able to slot 5, with the first by ash, aimee, and then our hat-trick hero sarah.

With both our keeper and back up keeper out with reasons, 4 brave girls including, kristina, ash, vik and helen stepped up to defend the goal line. As coach i would like to thank those 4 girls very much, even though i had to force you a little bit. Ellen returned today after 12 weeks out with an injured knee but missed the whole second half after yet a second knee injury. Ash opened up the game with a simple yet officiant goal putting the girls 1 nil infront within the first 15 minutes.

The game continued to go our way, with shots from distance coming from miku shelly and bec. Shelly did her usually thing, dribbling through 7 or 8 defenders, just falling short of goal. Vik was solid in defence controlling the team, and making sure no balls threatened our nervous 4 keepers. Anya seems to be improving every game. If a mistake was made, she made sure she won the ball back and cleared it safely. Nicole showed some pace and class while sofia yet again showed how reliable she is as a defender.

Probably the most exciting part of the game, and the most impressive. I have always said to the forwards, "when the mids have the ball make a run behing your defender and call for the ball", Today this happened. Ash had won the ball from the defence, and dribbled towards the line where Aimee put her foot down and accelerated. probably the greatest ball i have seen all season saw aimee beat her defender and put the ball into the back of the net.

Beth was dangerous every time a ball was put in front of her and miku came close hitting the crossbar. late into the second half miku put in a dangerous slide tackle possibly ending the poor girls career. After speaking to the press after about the harsh tackle, her response was, "mehh ah well". lol.

Girls we are on track to the semis. Redbacks are clearly an amazing team with alot of talent, but so are we, so lets put in at training and hopefully walk away with the Womans 18 championship.

Man of The Match - Aimee