A tough match against a very good Ellesmere Port Town team with a number of skilful players.
The first half saw Waverton slow to start and whilst good zonal formations were maintained (George always remaining in the Waverton half to defend, and Rafa always remaining in the Ellesmere half to attack) the team lost seven goals. In the most part these were to polite defending in front of our own goal or taking the ball into dangerous positions from our own goal kicks. Something that needs a lot of work in training. Despite this there were the first few – of many – encouraging signs. Freddie, Guy and Coby taking the time to control the ball, look up and spot a team mate to pass too, this created one great chance a piece for Rafa and Christopher during a passage of pressure that also saw back to back Waverton corners. Oliver did well in goal preventing the scoreline from getting worse on at least 2 occasions.
In the second half – and rather confusingly for the coaches – the
shape was lost completely, but only 4 further goals were conceded. Coby’s spell
in goal was the best of the match with the third period only conceding 1 goal.
Again Chris and Rafa finding themselves with great opportunities to open the
scoring for Waverton.
Towards the end of the game
Waverton again pushed forward, helped by Eric looking up and picking out three
great forward passes, they had back to back corners and were unfortunate that,
in throwing the full team forward to try and score, left a big gap at the back
to allow Ellesmere Port to score their 11th with the last kick of the
game.
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