NEW MILLS JUNIORS FC

New Mills U14s Girls were away to East Leigh AFC in the 1st round of the cup today.  A good start to the game and the Millers girls having to tough it out time and again against a very well set out, physical team.  A good first half and plenty for keeper Taylor to do who made excellent saves and even better long balls up the pitch, literally putting her body on the line and coming out to deny East Leigh on plenty of occasion. Izzy clearing one off the line whilst Taylor scram

The U10’s were against another Richmond Rovers side, this time is was Napoli. Due to an away shortage of players, we agreed to do 6v6. Richmond started the better of the 2 sides as it took the U10’s a bit of time to adjust to playing as a 6, but they defended well, especially Charlie T who was clearing every ball in sight. A change up brought on Alfie, Pavak and Teddy with fresh legs we turned the attacks on hem leaving them scrambling to clear with Teddy keeping the pressure

We started with 1 at the back today and 3 playing a midfield attacking role, perhaps brave to only have one at the back to begin with but we wanted to give the opportunity for more players to be positioned up front to ensure fair rotation of positions from previous matches; we started with a hard working midfield so we were happy to go with that and it was our intention to give a strong performance straight away.   The game got underway and very quickly from the kick off with