After a stressful week with many players no longer available or injured, the remaining 10 voted unanimously to go to Kings Hill and play with just the 10 with the hope that someone's availability would change last minute. That hope faded on Saturday morning and so we went with 10!
With the opposition admitting that they hadn't realised that we hadn't had a full team, it's fair to say we were evenly matched in the opening parts of the game. There was outstanding work from our midfield pairing of Kerry and new player Brooke, as they kept the ball moving well and we had attacks on the Hill goal, including a few penalty corners.
At the other end, the well disciplined team of Cheryl, Olga and Sally were well marshalled by goalkeeper Elizabeth. Any attacks by Kings Hill were easily mopped up. Towards the end of the half Kings Hill had a few penalty corners that resulted in no goal.
0-0 at the HT break, the message from captain Chloe was clear, we were playing amazing and to continue with the excellent plays through wingers Ineta and Freiya.
After the break, Kings Hill started brightly but few opportunities resulted in many clear goal options. We had a PC midway through the 2nd half, Sally struck sweetly but that was cleared off the line by a Kings Hill defender.
Unfortunately Ville started to tire and a break resulted in a 1v1 in the circle that not even a diving Elizabeth could stop. Despite pushing from Cat, Chloe and the entire midfield, we just couldn't find the equaliser.
Player of the match went to Brooke for seemingly being everywhere and in this writer's opinion being 2 people at times.
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