Woodbridge U13, 1st May 2010

Kingborough 5 - Woodbridge 1

This team is in a really awkward stage in their football development, for some of them the change from the small sided format has been extreme. Suddenly they are on the big pitch, with the big goals and ... offside??

However despite this, a 5-1 loss against any Kingborough team is a respectable result, they are a professional club and produce teams that play a professional style of football. There was plenty for us to take away from this game to work on. The most important being playing and holding positions; the older version of ‘seagull soccer’ will not work in this competition.

Both Blake and Jacob performed well in goals, both making successful saves in 1v1 situations. Defensively we performed well, our back line is lacking a little structure but our entire team defended well on the day. We struggled in attack as the mid field was congested and it was hard to get the ball wide, quickly to our wingers. The sheer persistence of our attack created several goal scoring opportunities in both halves and much to everyone’s relief Thomas managed to put one of them away.

It will be quite exciting watching this team come together over the course of this season.

Next match – New Town Eagles @ Woodbridge @ 12pm.