Pentrebane Primary School
No Adam or Richard this week so a few changes were needed and Alice, Matthew and Liam covered the left and right defensive positions between them with Gethin and Tyrone and Liam playing centrally just in front of them and a three pronged attack made up of Kyle on the right, Lucas in the centre and Josef and Alice covering the left.
Heol Hir Black 1 - Star FC "A" 1
A fantastic end to end start with both teams attacking and defending well and creating great counter attacks. A pinpoint pass from Gethin found Matthew who chipped the ball over the top to Kyle who took it well before hitting a decent effort. GOAL! A lovely finish put us 1-0 up and gave us a well deserved lead. More great tackling and passing from Tyrone and Gethin in the middle and great wing play from Josef and Kyle created chances and Lucas came closest but he was unlucky not to find the net. It was looking like we would take a 1-0 lead into the half time break but a well struck shot rose above Sam and with a little help from the wind found its way into the net ending the first half 1-1.
The second half started with Liam taking over from Alice and another bright start soon led to an early second half chance for Lucas and his shot only just went over the bar. The next chance came for Gethin who tried a cheeky chip which was unlucky not to end up in the net. Josef crossed well for Tyrone who shot just over the bar. Soon after Kyle played an accurate ball over the defence for Tyrone to shoot again but the keeper did well to save it and the game ended a hard fought 1-1 draw. On a luckier day it could have easily ended in a good win with so many chances but Star did well to keep us out and earned the draw.
Scorer(s): Kyle 1
Heol Hir Black 3 - Maindy Corries Black 1
The second game saw one change with Liam paired with Tyrone in the middle and Gethin rested for the first half. Another great start and the team were passing confidently from the kick off with Liam and Tyrone playing some excellent passes through to Kyle, Lucas and Josef and Matthew and Alice getting forward at every opportunity. A lovely ball from Kyle found Lucas in shooting range in the box. GOAL! A lovely finish and a brilliant early lead. This seemed to give the team even more confidence and shot after shot tested the Maindy keeper with Lucas coming close to getting a second within a few minutes. Another fantastic attack found Josef, Kyle and Lucas in the box together but despite all their efforts they just could not get the ball over the line for a second goal and Kyle came closest. A beautiful corner from Kyle almost created a chance but Maindy just about dealt with it. A stunning shot from Lucas looked likely to find the net but the Maindy keeper did really well to save it and keep the score at 1-0 at half time.
Gethin came on for Matthew and Liam dropped into the right back position to start the second half. Some lovely link up play from Alice and Josef down the left created an early chance for Lucas. GOAL!! A great finish and Lucas had a well deserved second goal and gave us a 2-0 lead early on. Maindy did well with a lovely free kick and got a goal back. 2-1. This inspired us to play even better football and Liam came close to scoring with a decent shot and soon after struck a stunning shot goalward but the keeper did well to stop a rocket of a shot. Great work from the whole team kept Maindy pegged back and created chance after chance with Lucas looking for his hat-trick and just going over the bar with one shot before hitting a powerful accurate strike late in the game. GOAL! The keeper could do nothing to stop Lucas's shot which got him his hat-trick and the team a healthy 3-1 lead with little time left on the clock. Just before the whistle a late cross found Liam who rose well for a great header which was just kept out. A very entertaining 3-1 win with some brilliant passing moves proving too much for Maindy this week.
Scorer(s): Lucas 3
Heol Hir Black 1- Fairwater Black 0
Josef rested the first half with Alice starting on the left in his place. Fairwater started well and made the defense work hard and gave Sam a little work to do. After a few minutes we got back into things and started to play some lovely football. Lucas used his strength to keep the ball before playing a neat ball to Kyle who in turn found Matthew whose shot went just wide. Most of the first half was end to end attacking and counter attacking with both teams defending well and stopping the opposition from getting a first half goal.
Josef came on to replace Alice who had worked tirelessly down the left and deserved a rest. Early on Liam played a lovely crossfield ball towards Josef who hit it well but could not hit the target and went just wide. The Fairwater keeper did well to stop a great shot from Lucas and our defense did brilliantly to stop Fairwater's well worked attacks. Tyrone came from a right back position to take the ball on the half way line and create a brilliant shooting opportunity. GOAL! A fantastic finish and a 1- 0 lead against an organised passing Fairwater side who had been difficult to beat in the past. The game was end to end until the final whistle and we ended the morning with a hard fought 1-0 win.
Scorer(s); Tyrone 1
Man of The Match
Two weeks in a row with no defeats and only two goals conceded this week with only one week to go and 98 goals so far for the season. Every player showed the spectators their best football this week and could easily have been awarded Man of The Match with the opposition coaches giving some really positive comments about how well we played.
With three excellent goals and some excellent tackling, passing and fabulous creative football Lucas was awarded this week's Man of The Match. Well played Lucas and well played everyone who played this week you gave us all some really attractive, entertaining football to watch in our last but one fixture and really worked to earn some great results.
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