U9 REDS

Long Melford U9’s Reds 8 Feering Falcons U9’s Reds 0 (Sunday 14 February 2010)

This game saw Melford scoring fifteen goals in the last two games and keeping successive clean sheets. Sam knight opened the scoring in the fifth minute from a ball from Joe Foster following good work from Dean Ablitt surging from defence down the left flank. Seven minutes later and a cross from Dean Ablitt following another run, this time down the right wing found Sam Knight again who made no mistake for his second. Another run and cross this time by Edward Murray through the middle set up Sam Knight for another goal. A first half hat-trick (and a crisp fiver from Dad!) for the Melford Striker. A speculative shot from long range from Edward Murray was stopped by the keeper, but slipped out of his hands and had enough momentum to trundle over the line for Melford’s fourth. There was nothing fortuitous about Edward Murray’s second goal a couple of minutes later when he dribbled his way through to shoot and score Melford’s next goal to take the Colt’s into half time 5-0 up.

Within two minutes of the restart Melford had added to their tally, Joe Foster netting in a penalty box scramble resulting from a Melford Corner kick. Feering scored an own goal after a well struck Sam Knight cross went in off of a Falcon’s defender to make it 7-0 to the home side.

Sam Knight struck once again for his fourth just over half way through the second half to give the Colts an 8-0 lead, and the score remained the same till full time. Mention must be made of Freddie Chandler’s performance which was as committed as any of the Melford players and who came close to scoring his first goal for Melford but, despite his team mate’s best efforts, couldn’t quite do it. Lewis Smith also had a solid game in defence and Callum Christie in goal kept another clean sheet.