Evergreen Juniors. Archie's old club. He's scored past them on a few occasions. He's scored for them too, last season. But, he's never won a game against them... and that unfortunately is a fact that remains. Both myself and Arch had been looking forward to this one as soon as we learned that EJ were going to be in the same league as us. A beautiful day for a game of football too. When we arrived at the Harebreaks and saw EJ warming up, we only recognised 4 or 5 of the players and also recognised a couple that have recently moved from Comets Lions to join EJ. They looked like a dangerous outfit who last weekend thumped Harpenden Colts Cobra 9-2!!
Archie started the game upfront alongside Kian. The match kicked off and the boys attacked the goal very early on and within 3 minutes we were 1-0 up. There was a goal mouth scramble and Archie managed to stroke the ball into the back of the net. A very soft goal to concede. Two minutes later and we had doubled our score. Archie battled for the ball and laid it off for Kian to slot home. 2-0. The EJ coaches were furious with the sleepy team. They responded with a really well taken finish to make it 2-1 and moments later had crafted an equalizer. 2-2. Both teams were fighting really hard in the middle of the field and the were called upon a couple of times too. Archie put us 3-2 up just before half time. A lovely ball was threaded through, Archie beat his man to the ball, opened his body up and placed the ball past the keeper. Great goal. Half time.
The second half was just as end to end as the first. The boys won a corner, and from that came our 4th goal. Riccardo whipped in a fantastic cross and the ball was headed in by an Evergreen player. 4-2. For some reason, the boys stepped off the gas and conceded 3 goals in quick succession. Archie was subbed and didn't return.
Today's match was very even, Evergreen had the edge but we look forward to going to South way to beat them on their ground. Next week we play 1st division side Tring United in the County Cup.
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