Royton Town AFC U14’s v Stretford Victory U14’s

HT: 3-0 – Isaac, Rahman x2

FT: 9-0 – Rahman x 2, Jackson x 2, Bailey x 2

MOM: Rahman

We weren’t sure what to expect today with it being the first game since our last 😂 (in mid December) and with no training since before Christmas.  To be fair it was a slow start, the sharpness of passing wasn’t there and the tracking back was hard work.

It took 17 minutes to break the deadlock with Isaac lobbing the keeper – what a relief, it looked like it was going to be one of those days. Both Tommy and Rahman made the keeper produce good saves early on and they hit the bar from a free kick.

The rest of the half was still a bit of a struggle playing ‘uphill’ but then Sam won a challenge and played a great through ball to Rahman on the half hour to make it 2-0.  Getting a snif for goal, 2 minutes later Rahman collected the ball from 20 yards out and curled it in to make it a half time score of 3-0.

The 2nd half was a totally different game with Rahman taking just 4 minutes to complete his hat trick with a neatly placed shot into the bottom corner. 4-0.

Jackson, desperate to get on the scoresheet then scored 2 in 2 minutes with a superb effort on 5 minutes and then again on 7 to make it 6-0.

Now with 15 minutes gone Rahman scuffed a shot which trickled towards their keeper, spinning though it curved away from him and crept over the line.  7-0.

Sam was the unfortunate not to score, clean through but the ref blew for a foul to Royton.

Still pushing for more goals Bailey and Isaac ran through on goal, Bailey put it in but it was deemed offside.  A minute later Bailey was through again and passed it in. 8-0 with 5 minutes left.  With seconds now left Bailey found himself through again and executed a fine lob.

9-0, and although not the best performance it was a great result and 2nd clean sheet.