It's was only our third game of year and with only a bare 11 and no Ollie in goal against a strong Heavitree team we certainly had our work cut out. For the first 10 minutes or so we were nervy, mistiming tackles and looking like a team that had not played for some time and Heavitree took full advantage of this going ahead with a long range strike right into the top corner leaving Zak with no chance to save.
Almost immediately after that we started to find our feet and it wasn't long before we hit back when Marcus did really well to get on the end of high ball in the box and loop a header over the Heavitree keeper. From that moment on we went from strength to strength playing some brilliant football and Alfie ran the Heavitree defence ragged scoring a hat-tick to give us a impressive 4-1 lead. Just before half-time some casual passing across the back lead to Heavitree pulling a goal back.
In the second half Alfie bagged 2 more excellent goals to extend our lead to 6-2 which looked to have wrapped up the points for us until Heavitree got their third followed by a sustained spell of pressure but some solid defending and some good saves by Zak kept them at bay.
What a brilliant performance and great win - well done lads!
Man of the Match has to go to Alfie for his work rate and 5 brilliantly taken goals.
A big thank you to Zak Milling for stepping up and going in goal. As an outfield player it's not easy to play in goal but Zak made some important saves and was excellent coming off his line to collect lose balls.
No training Monday as we have a game against St Martins on Tuesday at KGV. I will let you time but i'm trying to arrange for 6pm KO. Please let me know if you are unable to make it.
Jon
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