Today's game almost didn't happen for Archie. He suffered a terrible injury whilst at the park with his friends, falling 1.5 metres... or was it 2.5 metres, erm probably about 5 metres (the height slightly more exaggerated with everytime the story was told) off a swing and landed funny on his ankle. Admittedly, his ankle was a bit bruised but nothing a bit of 'deep heat' and support bandaging couldn't sort!. The weather didn't look too good either, but Archie advised me that "drizzly fine rain" was his favorite weather to play football in... 'Great' I thought, 'but Arch, its pouring with rain out there' I told him!
Paul set the team up in a 4-3-3 formation with Archie playing as the left sided striker, which he was happy with. The match got underway and within the first 3 minutes, Herons had gone 1 nil up. Kian (the right sided striker) had shot on goal which was parried by the keeper straight into the path of James S (the central striker) who stroked the ball home. The first half was very well contested by Herons. We were unlucky not to double our lead. Archie almost scored an absolute cracker, a shot from the edge of the area, but was denied by a great save from the keeper. Our goalkeeper, Andre, had very little to do in the first half.
The second half was a different story. The boys were shying away from challenges, not talking to each other on the field and also managed to conceded two very soft goals in the last 10 minutes of the game. In all, the game was very close, a little bit ruined by the linesman who was officiating on behalf of Harpenden. He was flagging absolutely every dash towards goal as offside for no reason. We almost equalised as a result of a desperate goal mouth scramble but the ball found an opposing defender rather than the net... about 4 or 5 times!
The boys got a proper talking too at the end of the game, they have to step their game up if they are going to start winning games. Next weeks game will be a tough one, we are due to play Chorleywood Panthers who are top of the league.
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