NMJFC u11s Girls Vs Alderley United.
After receiving a late Friday message that Alderley only had 5 players, we went with a full squad and understanding there’d be lots of out time. Not sure if this unsettled us but we seemed to struggle through the first half. Brooke opening the score sheet after 3 minutes and working really hard in the first half, then an Alderley equaliser with their nippy forward players really pushing on. A great effort by Ava was just past the post. A free kick resulted in Freya L squeezing through the gap to bag us another. Unfortunately, a couple more from Alderley and a fantastic save by Lily left us just trailing by 1 at half time. Strange atmosphere today and the girls weren’t happy with lots of decisions, but they played a fair game throughout the whole match! With a huge swap around in the second half and Lily bravely staying in net making more great saves and instructing where she needed her team in the goal mouth, Alderley were settled in their positions and were then firing in goals from everywhere, but we were a little disjointed. Lots of people said Nayia worked hard in midfield and was constantly under pressure but went out with the determination to get herself a goal today – achieved that, well done for fighting for it and well done Nieve for the beautiful assist. Nieve, you kept your head up today and made sure you were creating opportunities for the pass. Good work! Few more goals from Alderley but our girls dug deep, and Phoebe constantly worked hard with a few shots on target and eventually got her goal too– lovely celebration!!
Freya B’s skills around the players got her a couple more goals and with 5 minutes to go they were applying the pressure to try and even up the score, was not to be, some would argue an extra few minutes and they would have achieved it. Today our absolute star of the match was Bella, who hugely defended, came out to meet their forward players with great timing and despite not being very well had her best game today! Without doubt Girl of the Match for us today was Bella ! Huge well done.
From a personal point today - I loved their support for each other, they all celebrated each other’s hard work. Seeing them high fiving each other and giving credit where it was due today makes them a great team.
Caz. U11s Proud Manager.
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