Under 10 Match Report - 16 May 2009

Fair weather again this weekend saw the Westside Sports Dragons wind their way out to the town of Yesteryear to pit their skills against the U 10 Dayboro Dingoes.
Jacob and Mathew demonstrated some fancy footwork early in the match, deftly deflecting the ball away from the opposition. Mid fielder, Tristan worked the game tirelessly and rounded up the ball several times, feeding though to forwards Tahra and Hayden, however their attempts went across the front of the goal or placed wide of the posts, with no score recorded whilst under pressure. Thomas maintained forward position, but was unable to wrestle the space for a goal attempt from the opposition.

Westside saw an opportunity when Dayboro players had been drawn up the field, and they quickly struck while there was open ground and managed to start up the scores with the first goal of the game.
Tahra took a steal and worked the ball back close to goals but after a tussle, the ball was diverted away.

Joshua came on and found his place in midfield and maintained a show of support for the team, working the ball forwards. Mathew, solid as ever in the backs defended play and prevented many of the opponent’s opportunities that might have come. Hayden playing forward this week received the ball and took an attempt at goal, which placed to the right of the post, but shortly after Elliott worked through the field and cleverly placed the first goal for Dayboro.

Westside kicked off and the ball came down the sides towards Benedict, who swung into action and through persistence, managed to completely foil the Westside player resulting in the ball passing out to our backline to mids.

The Second Half saw Layton field the ball with determined forward direction, feeding to Elliott who worked really hard in front of the goals. Benedict played well in the backs, blocking many moves and goal attempts by the opposition.

The team worked really well as a unit with many players passing through the positions. Thomas and Layton worked in unison, passing the ball back and forth at times gaining 15m of ground. Joshua pressured the opposition, at times taking on two Westsiders at once, and still maintaining control of the ball to feed to the forwards.

Jacob, Tristan and Mathew once again demonstrated their speed on the field, and on one occasion Mathew worked the ball up the sidelines, won the throw in and fed to Layton, but the ball placed wide of goals. Not long after, Layton received the ball again and redeemed himself with a well-placed kick into nets for another Dayboro goal. The scores were even at this stage, and although Elliott was very strong in defence, Thomas, Tahra, Hayden and Jacob were working hard at the front end to control the ball at goals, but unfortunately the Westside defence was effective in blocking any goal attempts.

Not to be forgotten, Ben as goalie made many saves throughout both halves of the match, some quite well done, preventing Westside from the score they were really after.

The start of the match saw the promise of a well-rehearsed performance from the Dingoes with the play skirted out to the sides through the midfield to forwards. However, the Dayboro players were drawn into play into either sides or up the middle at times by their opposition, and did not maintain their positions with spaces being used by the Westside team to field the ball towards their goal.

Player of the Match went to Tristan Alexander this week. Tristan really got the heart rate up this match and worked very hard in the midfielder position against the opposing team. He received quite a few favourable comments from the player support team – the parents! Well done Tristan.