Saturday 28th September 2013
Cardiff & District Under 16 A Division
Roath Park
Marlboro Sports 3 - 2 Pentwyn Dynamos
Bellew, Foulkes
Another hard match in which we were missing players - Jake absent and Matty still injured. We then lost Josh to injury after 15 minutes - and he was having a good game. This left us with no recognised full backs and players playing out of position.
Marlboro started the better and a succession of corners at the start had us under pressure from the off.
They bossed it for the first 15 minutes and we looked lacklustre and off the pace.That said - they never really created a chance and we weathered a storm of crosses and throughballs.
We got a foothold and started to threaten them a little - Ryan running at them and Dan getting on the ball more.
We took the lead - still slightly against the run of play - through Mike Bellew. Mike followed in Jakes footsteps from last week scoring a wonderful first goal for the club. He powered through and unleashed an unstoppable drive into the top right hand corner to put us 1 up against his old team.
The game was mainly contested in the central areas and remained like that until half time and we were pleased to have the lead despite not having played anywhere near our best.
We lost the game in 10 mad minutes - mistakes are costing us goals each week - players decision making is more important at thisage group and a failure to play an easy ball on the half way line, lead to us losing possession and they went through to score a very good goal - but from our point of view should never have happened had we played the way we were facing!
The second goal was a good finish from Nick - who was a real thorn in our side all morning, we allowed him to turn and poke the ball into the corner.
The third goal was another mistake - again bad decision making lead to attempting to dribble out from the back past an attacker, losing possession and a cross to nicks head saw us 3-1 down.
All that happened in 10 minutes but we did regain some composure - Corey came on and gave us a bit more up front and we managed to get one back through Chaz - his volley deflected into the top right hand corner.
We pressed them for an equaliser but they stood firm and held on for a deserved win.
We did the hard bit - taking the lead when not at our best and missing several players, yet bad decision making let us down and mistakes are costing us this season. We are much stronger than we have ever been and if not for mistakes we may well have won 4 of our 5 matches - yet as it stands we have only won 1, drawn 2 and lost 2.
The second goal was a good finish from Nick - who was a real thorn in our side all morning, we allowed him to turn and poke the ball into the corner.
The third goal was another mistake - again bad decision making lead to attempting to dribble out from the back past an attacker, losing possession and a cross to nicks head saw us 3-1 down.
All that happened in 10 minutes but we did regain some composure - Corey came on and gave us a bit more up front and we managed to get one back through Chaz - his volley deflected into the top right hand corner.
We pressed them for an equaliser but they stood firm and held on for a deserved win.
We did the hard bit - taking the lead when not at our best and missing several players, yet bad decision making let us down and mistakes are costing us this season. We are much stronger than we have ever been and if not for mistakes we may well have won 4 of our 5 matches - yet as it stands we have only won 1, drawn 2 and lost 2.
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