Highbury Under 10 Stripes versus Bradford Town Falcons

The stripes played their first league game against Bradford Town Youth Eagles on Saturday 10th October at the Sutton Veny Memorial Field.  Kick off was 10:00.

The stripes were showing a full squad with two new players (Kieran and Declan).  The full squad was Matthew, Ronan, Hayden, Ben, Mac, Declan, Kieran, Kyle, Zack & Brandon.

The starting line up was Ben in goal, Kyle, Zack and Hayden in defence with Ronan, Mac and Brandon up front.  The first half saw a few chances from both teams, the best Highbury efforts coming from Kyle and Brandon, where Kyle tried a shot from the half way line and it was only just pushed out by their keeper.  Brandon tried hard in a goalmouth scuffle, but the ball was cleared off the goal line by Bradford.  The half ended even at 0-0.

The second half began very much as the first half ended, fairly even with no real chances from either side.  Suddenly Bradford Eagles showed why they are in the top half of the league and poked a goal past Ben after 5 minutes.  A re-arrangement of the side by the coach settled down both teams and the Stripes seemed to find a good combination of players working well together.  However, it must be said that the Stripes never really looked like scoring an equaliser in that half.  The game ended 0-1 to Bradford Town Youth Falcons.  With the 2 new players, the team now have the opportunity for substitutes that they missed very much before and we can look forward to them finding their places and positions and maybe getting a few points in the bag in future.