Chorltonians Firsts 1-3 Mellor Seconds
Match report provided by Second Team Manager Rob White:.
Bassey got injured in the warm up, which wasn’t the best start and we were a little thin on ground as olly got called to the first’s and Marcus was away on hols. However we made a quick start to our play and pressed. Yet again we found quite a resolute chorlts team with a few quite decent players, so it wasn’t an easy game. Chortls scored within the first 10mins, with a strange shot from the far left that just tucked in the far corner. but we responded within the next 5, however we never panicked and continued our pressing and attacking play. We looked much more solid at the back and all the lads incl barlow & parr returning to full back positions looked like they had never been away. Parr was quite immense covering all over the show. Jamie also looked solid, as did smithy until he got a slight strain and had to come off with 35 left but thankfully it was seamless as Mike white came in and looked class and calm as always. We played well all over, Jerome worked hard, and knowlesy returned which makes a huge difference to the calmness and patience to our overall play, JV had a great first 60mins, playing simple football and looking more mature on ball as each game goes by. We scored another 2 to make it 1-3 and we could of easily scored more. Greeny played well, talked well and came and swept up when needed and made a very important save with 15 to go. Lebo was his usual 8/100 and Avi was dangerous until he came off with 10mins left with an injury. Knowlesy got MOM.
