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Mercian Festival Junior Football League Div 2  
Westbury Youth u11's - 1
Evesham Robins - 1
Manager - Colin Chance
Assistant - Tony Thompson

11th September 2010
  20010/11 season
Westbury u11's Juniors 4 Evesham Robins 1
 
 
Starting line up, Whitehouse, Brown (Capt), Harris, Charlwood, Thompson, Chance, Clayton, Substitutes Clarke, Partridge.
 
With Manager Colin Chance sunning himself in Turkey, it was left to Tony Thompson to pick up the reigns. Westbury was also without their midfield terrier Thomas Evans who was at 2012 Olympic swimming trials. 
 
So Westbury started of with a 2-3-1 formation, with Brown and Harris at the back, Charlwood, Thompson and Chance Junior in midfield, and Clayton upfront.
 
The visitors kicked off, but Celtic soon won possession and had the Robins on the back foot. Westbury dominated the early stages with Clayton, Chance and Thompson going close. Clayton had a shot cleared off the line after two minutes. Thompson weaved his magic on the left and hit the post. After five minutes Chance fired aide. Evesham began to find their feet and tested Whitehouse who was equal to the task on 3 occasions. No wonder Capello has his eye on this lad. Westbury pushed forward with Brown and Harris bringing the ball out of defence confidently to begin several attacks on Evesham's goal. Charlwood left foot shot from the edge of the box went agonisingly close. Clayton was leading the line superbly, pressuring the Robins defence. Clayton and Thompson some how saw a goal mouth scramble eventually go out for a corner. Chance was looking dangerous on the right, he was now beginning to beat his marker and firing crosses in. This is what we want to see more off from Ryan Chance, superb. Chance fired in a dangerous cross from the right which was cleared straight to Clayton who fired straight into the bottom corner for a deserved 1-0 lead. This was not the same Evesham who collapsed to defeat last season, and the setback prompted a wave of chances the Whitehouse dealt with magnificently. Partridge and Clarke had been introduced for Clayton and Harris. Clarke brought the ball down superbly to start off another attack with the unlucky Thompson going wide again. Chance hit the post after a great through ball from Partridge after he won the ball on the halfway line. Harris and Clayton came back on for Charlwood and Thompson. Clayton came on to left midfield and Harris into the centre. Clayton was on fire he cut in from the left to hit a cracker from the edge of the box only to clip the upright.
 
Half Time 1-0   
 
Chance put Westbury 2-0 up when he drilled in from 6 yards when the ball fell to him unmarked in the box. Evesham put Westbury under heavy pressure from the kick off, Whitehouse pulled off two superb saves and diving at the feet of the oncoming forward. Charlwood and Thompson had come back on. It seemed that Celtic had weathered the storm and when a Celtic attack broke down, Westbury were caught on the counter attack. Westbury failed to track back, a ball was floated into the box there was a mix up from skipper Brown and Whitehouse with no call coming from either. The ball came off the top of Browns head and over the despairing Whitehouse, and the unmarked midfielder fired into the empty net.  Westbury began to dominate with Thompson, Clayton, and Clarke all going close. Westbury needed a third goal as Evesham countered superbly. The third come from a corner when Chance headed in after good work from Charlwood. The game was more open as Westbury began to pour forward, Evesham began to find more space. Clarke fired in the goal of the game, when he turned and curled a shot in from the edge of the penalty area to make it 4-1.
 
Managers Comments
Thompson senior pointed out to the players that we need to keep our shape, when we went 3-1 up, some players decided they wanted to score and were out of position. Evesham had several chances at 3-1 and if it was not for the form of the Brown, Partridge, Harris and Whitehouse they could have easily got back into the game. Having said that it was a great performance form the boys, and nice to get amongst the goals as on occasions last season they became hard to come by.
 
Man of the Match 
Skipper Tai Brown leads by example, but was run close by Englands number one Alfie Whitehouse
         
 
 


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