U12s Stockport vs Heaton Mersey
A Turf war lands the Stockport team in Levenshulme!
Quarter finals cup match.
Well its been a month since we played a match due to such bad weather including two storms and some major flooding in the UK.
So due to a scarcity of good dry turf to play on has lead us to go to MEA Central, a secondary school academy which on the map is in Levenshulme and their 4G astro turf to guarantee our quarter final match between Stockport and Heaton Mersey.
Onto the match and we looked fairly good at the start for a few minutes with Dan Teal scoring the first goal with a good face off and some good early connecting passes, however there is a large number of players on the team that clearly hadn’t practiced that much and looked like they were playing for the very first time. Good possession was lost so easily with a lot of clumsiness, while some of this can be excused due to not playing for a good while, there was some passiveness and a general lack of enthusiasm and ability to win a ground ball even on a 75% chance.
Heaton Mersey won the possessions up for grabs on the pitch and were practically jogging the goals in at times,
scoring five goals in each quarter, the Stockport players looked extremely rusty and were on the back foot for most of the match.
Clearly frustrating for some of the Stockport players at the end of the match.
This year the u12s team have been very inclusive to all players in the club, including giving some younger and new players experience in playing matches also and this has sometimes reflected in some of the results, however we have won some matches this year and this season has been a good foundation for the players for future seasons where the teams will be fairer in terms of ages and abilities.
Well done to all players and parents for playing and persevering in the sport in some trying weather and uneven matches.
Dan Teal scored another goal in the third quarter and Tom Smith scored in the last quarter finishing the game 20 - 3 to Heaton Mersey.
Goal Scorers Dan Teal 2 and Tom Smith.
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