TWFC

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Denzo               Subscription £2.50
Israel90            Subscription £3.00
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JonF                 Subscription £3.00
ngill                   Subscription £3.00
Niyi                   Subscription £2.00
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Players
Orange Bibs

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dA.Niesta, dabiyani1995, Israel90, JakeFlowers, ngill, Niyi, Steve

Yellow Bibs

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Avvon, Denzo, Jermaine, JonF, MarkA, VIIGeorgeVII

We played seven Orange Bibs against six Yellow Bibs and agreed that the Yellows would play rush keeper due to having one player less.

Match video is at

https://youtu.be/8t2vBGof-i8

courtesy of MarkA. Many thanks Mark.

Thirteen players on the pitch meant that strikers would need to get past more players to score. This is what it is all about, the ability to beat a group of players and burst the net. The keeper's job is to keep the ball out at all costs. The challenge was issued and well received, the rest is below.

The Oranges raced to a 3 - 0 lead through JakeFlowers, dA.Niesta and the returning Steve. Then Denzo played the ball up field to VIIGeorgeVII who was on the halfway line with his back to goal and marked by dA.Niesta, Israel90 and Steve. Essentially VIIGeorgeVII should have been going nowhere. VIIGeorgeVII spun round and away from Israel90 then had dA.Niesta and Steve on toast before leathering the ball straight past a bewildered keeper from just inside the half. This deft move can be seen at 21:25 of the match video.

Orange Bibs 3 - 1 Yellow Bibs

dA.Niesta scored a goal back before VIIGeorgeVII later robbed the ball again on the halfway line and whistled it in past another surprised keeper from distance.

Orange Bibs 4 - 2 Yellow Bibs. Both dA.Niesta and VIIGeorgeVII on a hat-trick.

On the stroke of 33 minutes MarkA went in to goal for the Yellow Bibs and produced quite possibly one of the finest goalkeeping displays on record. MarkA made 14 saves in a row. Two of MarkA's many saves can be seen during the 43rd minute of the match video before VIIGeorgeVII completed his hat-trick to bring the score to a nail-biting 4-3 to the Orange Bibs.

dA.Niesta finally managed to slot the ball past MarkA to bring up his hat-trick. MarkA then made a further four saves to bring his account to 19 shots received, 18 shots saved and 1 goal conceded.

Not to be outdone Steve at the other end pulled off a fine save from the mighty Avvon who connected sweetly forcing Steve to stretch and touch the ball on to the post with his finger tips. That particular save is not on film as our camera does not cover the Garden End. However, if you listen carefully after Avvon takes his shot at 48:17 of the match video you can here the acoustics of Steve's fingers connecting and then the ball bouncing off of the post. The microphones are quite good on these modern cameras (we do however apologise in advance for the language uttered in frustration at Steve's save).

Final Score Orange Bibs 5 - 3 Yellow Bibs

Match awarded to the Orange Bibs.

Top scorers dA.Niesta and VIIGeorgeVII with three each.

Things to Note

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Jermaine           Subscription £3.50
Niyi                    Subscription £1.50
VIIGeorgeVII     Subscription £2.00