17/03/2024
The young Colls hosted Yorkshire RTC yesterday, and with us missing key players through injury and illness leaving us with one sub we knew it would be tough, but it's very rare these lads let us down!
2 of the 3 previous meetings have gone in RTC's favour, but the most recent (this season) the young Colls won 5-1. But in this division one thing is for sure any team on their day can beat the other so we weren't going to take our opponents for granted!
The young Colls just proved too good through the whole game, despite being 5-0 up at halftime the lads weren't at their best but as a team we was ruthless.
Lewis adding to his season's tally with another great finish, Also Todd who is only playing his 5th game and is really starting to gel with the lads now won and stepped upto convert the penalty.
Isaac who missed last week's fixture meant business this week and scored for me the goal of the game with a deftly executed curling d**k.
Ollie after coming on from the bench took all of 5 Minutes to make an impact, unplayable when he is focused.
Theo stepped up with a wonderful solo finish which the keeper inadvertently spilled over the line but his work to that point deserved a bit of luck! He looks fitter and sharper than he's been arguably all season.
Ashton also got a goal his performance deserved, his desire and aggression is at times unmatched but when he reverts to his one touch passing and little give and go's there aren't many better.
The keepers deserve a special mention, Joe started and made a brave one on one save which impacted his knee but to that point he was flawless, Alf came on and although conceded, a great finish by the way, he made some smart saves and distributed the ball fantastically.
The defence did what they do consistently, gave a show of heart and desire and play in unity better than most, Jense after a tough game last week bounced back against a big physical winger and handled him brilliantly and used the ball very well when winning it, Alfie, well he does what he does week in week out, first and second ball winners, never loses a 50-50 and is a threat from every attacking set piece. Lastly James, an unsung hero back there, electric pace in recovery, his passing and distribution is fantastic, wins headers and compliments his partner Alfie superbly.
Obviously the MoM's went to Luke and Liam who in truth both ran the game, defensively and offensively both superb, they was involved in every goal at some stage, well deserved awards. All round a good win, on to next week 💙