24/09/2025
Saturday 13th saw the Rangers at Home vs Beechwood JFC Bilbao , a team they have won against last season and with a healthy scoreline.
This season's first meeting against this team was a different story and ended in a 3-2 defeat for the Rangers
The lads just weren't on their A game in that 1st half and made some silly mistakes which Beechwood took full advantage of.
The lads started off full of energy, constantly on the attack and opened up the scoreline with a goal from our number 11 Osian in the first 15 minutes, only for Beechwood to come back with an equaliser after the lads didn't react to one of their counter attacks, with both our defence and keeper calling offside even before they took the shot and were awarded the goal.
At the halftime break it remained 1-1 where we reminded the lads to always play to the whistle regardless of what call they thought should have been made by the referee.
Going into the second half the Rangers had multiple shots on Beechwoods goal but just couldn't find the back of the net.
Beechwood then hit back with a second goal from a corner which was cleared brilliantly from a header from our number 13 Teddie only to land to the feet of Beechwood just outside the box where the lads were too slow to press the player giving him enough space to fire it over the top and into the net out of reach of the Rangers keeper leaving the Rangers behind by a goal.
They fought back hard after this and had multiple attacks on Beechwoods goal which came to nothing until a corner awarded in the last 10 minutes or so of the game .
A neatly whipped in corner landed to our number 12 Koen who put it in the net bringing them the equaliser. All the lads could do was hold off the Beechwood advances and try to at least pull out a draw as the final minutes ticked away. Unfortunately in the final minute our defence put in a tackle that was free kick worthy just outside the area .
Beechwood set up for this last kick of the game play and fired an absolute banger into the top left of the goal way out of the reach of our number 1 securing the win for Beechwood. π.
Opposition managers pick player of the match went to our number 2 Tyler , who put in some great defensive tackles , winning the ball back and diffusing multiple Beechwood attacks ππ.
Parents player of the match went to our number 7 Charlie who as always ran his legs off and put 110% effort in throughout the game. ππ.