Abbeymead Rovers 'A' 1 Tredworth Tigers 1
Gloucester Youth League
Saturday 30th September 2006
Last season these two teams dominated the Mid Glos Mini Soccer League - Abbeymead winning the Northern League with Tigers runners up. In the League Cup the roles were reversed with Tredworth beating Abbeymead in the final in extra time. So far this season both teams are unbeaten and it was easy to see why. This was an excellent game with many chances at both ends and a draw was probably a fair result.
Abbeymead dominated the first half - after just five minutes Ben Langworthy fed the ball down the line to Josh Cannon - he showed great persistence and put over a lovely cross for Jamal Lawrence to fire home an unstoppable shot from the edge of the area. Alex Williams, in the Tredworth goal then made a string of superb saves - the first from another Lawrence pile-driver having been put through by an exellent diagonal ball from Joe Wilton - another from Brodie Goddard-Jones and then another from the lively Cannon. Tigers looked dangerous on the break but due to excellent defending from Elliot Basford and Clayton Dee, George Hall had only one save to make. Dee was a threat at the other end, meeting two Goddard-Jones corners but heading just over.
As in previous meetings, Tigers took the game to Abbeymead in the second half. A poor clearance was lumped into the area - Dee misjudged his clearance header and the ball fell kindly to Dominic Bernard who calmly finished. It was one way traffic for large parts of the second half and Basford, Dee, Goddard-Jones, Lawrence and Langworthy carried out their defensive duties superbly to protect Hall from having to make many saves. At the other end, in the final five minutes, Abbeymead could have snatched it when Goddard-Jones and Langworthy went close. Cannon was a constant threat but was left on his own against the Tigers defence. In the end a draw was a fair result.
Man of the Match: Clayton Dee
Abbeymead Rovers 'A': George Hall, Jamal Lawrence, Brodie Goddard-Jones, Joe Wilton, Josh Cannon, Elliot Basford, Clayton Dee, Ben Langworthy
Saturday 30th September 2006
Last season these two teams dominated the Mid Glos Mini Soccer League - Abbeymead winning the Northern League with Tigers runners up. In the League Cup the roles were reversed with Tredworth beating Abbeymead in the final in extra time. So far this season both teams are unbeaten and it was easy to see why. This was an excellent game with many chances at both ends and a draw was probably a fair result.
Abbeymead dominated the first half - after just five minutes Ben Langworthy fed the ball down the line to Josh Cannon - he showed great persistence and put over a lovely cross for Jamal Lawrence to fire home an unstoppable shot from the edge of the area. Alex Williams, in the Tredworth goal then made a string of superb saves - the first from another Lawrence pile-driver having been put through by an exellent diagonal ball from Joe Wilton - another from Brodie Goddard-Jones and then another from the lively Cannon. Tigers looked dangerous on the break but due to excellent defending from Elliot Basford and Clayton Dee, George Hall had only one save to make. Dee was a threat at the other end, meeting two Goddard-Jones corners but heading just over.
As in previous meetings, Tigers took the game to Abbeymead in the second half. A poor clearance was lumped into the area - Dee misjudged his clearance header and the ball fell kindly to Dominic Bernard who calmly finished. It was one way traffic for large parts of the second half and Basford, Dee, Goddard-Jones, Lawrence and Langworthy carried out their defensive duties superbly to protect Hall from having to make many saves. At the other end, in the final five minutes, Abbeymead could have snatched it when Goddard-Jones and Langworthy went close. Cannon was a constant threat but was left on his own against the Tigers defence. In the end a draw was a fair result.
Man of the Match: Clayton Dee
Abbeymead Rovers 'A': George Hall, Jamal Lawrence, Brodie Goddard-Jones, Joe Wilton, Josh Cannon, Elliot Basford, Clayton Dee, Ben Langworthy
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