Report

Playing friendly matches allows us the opportunity to move players into unfamiliar positions. To try alternative tactics and different formations. We started pushing and closing down from the first whistle. It was great to see elements practiced during our training sessions brought into a game scenario. However that wasn’t the whole story. We actually looked like we wanted to win.

We used the width of the pitch well using long balls and cut through Loudwater’s defence with some fantastic killer passes. Jack Keating looked dominant in goal once again for the first half. Passing the hypothetical baton to Lee Maynard for the second. Will Sturla had an excellent début in a centre backs position next to Adam Austin. Lee and Adam Coles covering the wide areas. Through the middle we had Harry Pymm and Alex McEwan with Ben Waterhouse and Luke Butler out on the flanks. Our strike force started with Zac Gladman and Kane Bradding up front.

Zac was first to score. A goal mouth scramble from a corner out on the left and their keeper did his best but couldn’t prevent the ball from slotting passed. Harry put two in the back of the net as well. A really hard battle for such a small player, he did really well throughout the game. Kane Bradding added a 4^th with his head then Greg started moving players about a bit.

Ryan Bowen and George Tuck came on swapping with players both in midfield and defence. Eventual man of the match winner Callum Brown looked very comfortable up front and his goal, a chip over the keeper, brought the tally to 6. Yet again another goal mouth scramble and Ryan made it 7.

Loudwater did score twice. Once in each half. However Penn controlled the majority of the game with some fantastic passing and enthusiastic determination. We managed to get height on our crosses and we wanted to win those 50/50 balls. Regardless of the score, this was a brilliant game of football to watch.