Cardiff and District Under 15 A Division
Heath Park
Marlboro Sports Black 1 - 1 Pentwyn Dynamos
Swabey
This looked to close to call - and in the end it was, though we so nearly won it!
Both teams are good footballing sides and were disappointed to have to play on Heath Parks worst pitch - see below!!
Nevertheless both sides attempted to play their passing game - and succeeded in playing their part in a well contested match that could have gone either way - and in the end a draw was a fair outcome.
We bossed the first half yet created few chances, the first shot on goal from either team coming on 30 mins - a well struck shot from Daniel Swabey forcing Harrisson down to his left to make a great save. Charlie was excellent in the middle of the park, powerful in the tackle and bursting forward at every opportunity. Dan Gibbins was getting on the ball and pulling all the strings for us. Marlboro had a couple of chances that Brad dealt with well, we had had the better of it though and it was 0-0 at half time.
Marlboro came out strong in the second half - though it was us that took the lead with a well taken goal from Daniel Swabey - hooking a shot into the corner from a difficult angle.
Marlboro really went for us after that and we defended well and counter attacked with pace - Dan Gibbins was having a great game and was causing them real problems on the break and Huw, Ryan, Matty and Callum were defending ever so well at the back.
With only minutes left Dan went on a run down the left and made his way into the box and smashed his shot against the bar - the rebound was then smashed over in a box scramble from 3 yards! So nearly sealed the points but Marlboro grabbed a deserved draw capitalizing on our poor marking from a corner to make it 1-1 with only minutes to go.
A fair result in the end as we bossed the first half and Marlboro the second. Credit to both teams for managing to play football on such a terrible surface.
