Match Report
Match Report - 01 Feb 2009, BALLINGER "BOMBERS" FOOTBALL CLUB BFC U11s 2009-10 lost to Chesham United Youth
Chesham v Ballinger Bombers
1 February 2009-02-04
Hervines Park
When Chesham met Ballinger on Sunday 1 February, the encounter was truly a ‘match of two halves’.
During the first 30 minutes, the game was evenly balanced with neither team displaying an ability to breach the others defence.
There were occasional forays into the final third of the field by both teams and Ballinger were exposed to several nail-biting goal-mouth scrambles.
At the half time whistle, the score remained 0 – 0 – a fair reflection of the balance of play between the two teams.
At the start of the second half, Chesham had clearly discussed tactics during the break and immediately adopted an effective strategy of counter-attack.
The first goal came in the 32nd minute of play when a lovely cross field ball was collected by the unmarked Stephen Manners who dispatched his shot into the bottom left corner from less than 5 yards.
Undaunted, Ballinger surged after the re-start and a speculative shot from David Hughes could have levelled the score.
The score remained 1 – 0 until Josh Haynes collected a cross from the right and doubled the advantage with a sweetly taken goal.
The Ballinger defence was breached on the break twice more in quick succession. Isaiah Patrick, who had a stunning game in attack for Chesham, left the Ballinger defence in his wake to shoot wide of advancing Ballinger keeper Stirzaker. Bailey Paige added his name to the score sheet in a similar fashion.
Jordan Pierce added a fifth as the Ballinger defence tired towards the end of the second half and a sixth followed from the penalty spot and at the second time of asking from Harry Wooster, after the referee was the only one to notice an infringement after the first attempt had been driven wide.
6 – 0 was a harsh score line but Chesham deserved the win on an exhausting and testing occasion for the Ballinger team.
Andrew Birchenough
Chesham United Youth 6 - 0 BALLINGER "BOMBERS" FOOTBALL CLUB BFC U11s 2009-10