Minchenden Greens Blog U11 2007-2008: October 2007

Fixture: Saturday 3rd November

St Marys v Minchenden
Alma Road Open Space
Off Green Street
Ponders End
Meet 9:30 KO 10:00
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Club Event - Race Night - Fri 30th November

The Club is holding another race night at Bramley Road clubhouse. The format will be the same as last year, which was a great laugh. The event is for adults - there will be gambling on the horse races shown on a big screen and the bar will be open. Tickets are just £5 a head. If you want to go, please let me know as soon as you can because there is a limit on numbers. It is at 7:30 on Friday 30th November. Adam 07771 972 638

Preliminary round of matches complete

All the preliminary matches are complete. We finished 5th (out of 7). Unfortunately, for our final position, Lea Valley won last Saturday and so finished above us.

Check out all the preliminary match results and the final preliminary league table.

We've been put in the premier league for the remainder of the season, along with West Essex Colts, Lea Valley, Whitewebs and teams from the league below us. Here's the league table (empty of course) and the schedule for matches, starting 3rd Nov away to St. Mary's.

Saturday 27th October - No Fixture

Result: 20th October 2007. Minchenden 8 - Ryan FC 2

The match started off well with Minchenden immediately looking confident. After a few short minutes the ball came to Terry in front of goal who wasted no time in slotting it home. The pressure continued to mount, with Terry continuing to thread balls through to the strikers and wingers until Dylan managed to cut the ball just past the keeper and the last man could only knock it into his own goal, whilst trying to clear the ball.

The opposition then started to pull themselves together with their best player scoring a couple of good goals in response to a further Minchenden strike from Tim. Half time 3-2 but Ryan FC getting better.

During the half time talk, Ryan was given the task of man marking the opposition's best player. This he did so well that they did not score in response to another 5 goals from Mark, Sam H, Tim and Tom got 2, one of which was a rare header!

Man of the match was Ryan.

Attendance was good but forgot to count in the rush for a cracking sausage roll!

By Adam and Dylan

Fixture: 20th October

Home match
Minchenden v Ryan F.C
Meet at 11am. Kick Off 11:30

Result: Potters Bar Crusaders Raiders 2-11 Minchenden Youth Greens

As the teams kicked off we knew the opponents weaknesses.
The first few minutes the opposition were a better team until Sam H scored a goal. We then started pulling ourselves together and Mark scored another goal for us. Potters Bar then scored from a counter attack. Next Dyl scored a tight goal and so did the opposition making it 3-2 and Robert finished off the first half with a cracker to make it 4-2 at half time.
Tom pulled out with a pulled muscle shortly after the re-start but we were strong as Rob scored 1 more goal, Mark and Sam H scoring another each as well,then almost half the team were scoring one. Robert crossed it in and Ben hand balled it into the goal which had already gone in. Then to finish the game off, Liam scored. But we weren't done quite yet as Sam R scored a set piece from the half way line.
Everybody liked this win as we had not had one for a while.

Match report by Dylan and Tom

Man of the match was Terry.

Rob had scored the first hatrick this season.

Referee was Joe Colin.

Attendance:16

Fixture: 13th October

Away match

Potters Bar Crusaders Raiders V Minchenden Greens

At King George V Playing Fields
Furzefield Centre, Mutton Lane
Potters Bar

Meet 10:00 (KO 10:30) car park gets very busy!

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Result: 6th October away to Lea Valley: 3-3 draw

Minchenden made a good start, with Ben getting an early goal with an amazing high lob. They came back strongly and got two goals in quick succession to take lead during the first half. We hung on, and Tom got an equalizer just before half time.

After the half-time analysis from Tim, we came out and played well in second half, with most of the play in their half and plenty of attacking chances but we could not convert them into goals. With 4 minutes remaining Lea Valley took the lead, from a goal mouth scramble with some dispute over whether they fouled our goalie. We shrugged off that and with a last, determined attack, Ben ran up the right and crossed into Mark who tapped it in to get the equalizer.

Well played everyone!!

Man of the match; Djan.
Goal scorers; Ben, Tom R, Mark.
Attendance; 15 or so Minchenden supporters.