Pentwyn Dynamos Under 16s 2013/14

Saturday 3rd Sept 2011

Pontprennau

Pentwyn Dynamos 2 - 6 AFC Whitchurch Red

Morse (Pen)

Viney

This was always going to be a difficult first match, Whitchurch are big, powerful and pacey - and didint they show it! 

We found ourselves 6 nil down inside 30 mins - and it could have been more. Whitchurch were playing to their strengths as usual - Closing us down quickly, hard tackling and knocking balls over the top for Mikey to chase - and we really struggled to cope with it.

We were missing Kieran up front and I think he would have made a difference playing them at their own game a bit more, but in all honesty for the first half we werent in it at all. We failed to challenge the high balls, rarely closed them down, gave them far to much space and time on the ball - then wondered why they were ripping us apart! We did miss a penalty and Chris had a nice lob clerared off the line in the first half, but apart from that is was a half best forgotten - providing we learned our lessons from all the things we didnt do.

We changed our shape and moved people back into their favoured positions and what a difference the second half was! We scored twice with no reply and were probably the better side this half.

Danny was brought down in the area and Caine stepped up to fire a lovely penalty into the bottom right hand corner.

Chris got the second goal after forcing a good save from their kepper - then pouncing and the rebound.

Charlie and Callum were excellent in the second half - and Will made a difference coming on and using the ball well.

Lessons hopefully were learned in the first half that must be taken into the rest of the season - there will be no easy games for us this season but if we apply ourselves as we did in the second half we can compete with most.