Another game against a team that has now firmly placed itself in mine and Archie little memory banks as the "bogey" team. The last time Archie has played and won against Chorleywood was way back in the Herons Under 9's team when he scored a fantastic hat-trick and won the game 3-1... Good times!
Great weather for today, no rain, and no injury worries for Archie (fully recovered from last week). The game was held back for 20 minutes because we had to wait for a replacement referee. Before the game, looking over at the Chorleywood Panthers team warming up, they looked a lot bigger than our boys. We knew it would be a physical challenge, something that we haven't been very good at... up until now that is!. The 4-1 scoreline really does flatter CP, a fairer result would have been either a marginal win or a draw.
Archie started the game as he did last week playing upfront alongside Kian and big Sam was back at Herons for his first game of the season to play in defence alongside captain Liam. From the start, our boys were giving it their all. We had a couple of go's at goal and had the opposition on the back foot. Then they turned on the pressure and had a crack at us. The boys were dealt a blow when, with 10 minutes gone, we went 1-0 down, a cruel result of a deflected save hitting Liam and bouncing into the goal. Lots of encouragement from Paul and the Herons' parents spurred the boys to keep their heads up and pile some more pressure on. We got our equalizer, and what a goal it was. Kian made a great run down the right wing, using his pace to beat the challenging defender and passed the ball to Archie. He controlled the ball beautifully but had it snatched away from him. He won the ball back, ran across the box beating 1 defender then turned another inside out and spanked the ball into the far right bottom corner. 1-1! We went in at half time in a buoyant mood.
The second half got off to a furious pace, both teams trying nick a goal... then it all went downhill thanks to some disgustingly rude CP parents/fans and what would appear to be a bad decision from the ref. It all boiled down to a goalmouth scramble and the ball being saved on the line (or was it over the line!) and someone shouting 'CHEATS' at our players. Paul was not please and ended up having a big disagreement with a handful of CP parents pointing out that our boys aren't cheats and that it was unfair to brand them as that. Our boys lost a bit of direction by that point and CP did manage to bag themselves a goal to go 2-1 up. We fought back and Archie was denied another cracking goal due to being marginally offside. The rest is pretty much down to 1 or 2 mistakes that we made, but it wasn't really surprising given what was going on around them.
Man of the match was awarded to Harry for his strong defensive tackles and none stop running. To be honest, a couple of the boys could have been given the the award, Archie included.
Archie is not available for next weeks game against Hemel Town Youth, so his next game is on the 24 October against the team he left, Evergreen Juniors, in order to join Herons. We are really looking forward to this one!
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