Longhill Ravens Reds U14s

This week we welcome Bridlington Town Rovers to The Marvell College.

After a hard fought game with Brid just before Christmas, we are ready and looking for revenge and will be aiming to come away with the 3 points!



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Coaches Player of the Match - Mason
Mason had a cracking game today. He worked hard for his teammates, got a little bit frustrated in the first half when things weren’t going to plan, but really channeled this in the second half, his passing was good, his movement was intelligent and he caused Tickton a lot of problems. He was massively unfortunate not to have scored the winner, but didn’t let his head drop and kept pushing on.

Parents Player of the Match - Frankie
We’ve been without Frankie for a while due to injuries and she’s been working hard to get herself fit and back on the pitch. And she was certainly back with a bang today, dangerous on the ball, getting stuck in and scoring 3 brilliant goals, including a last minute winner! It was good to see her getting back to her brilliant best!

Moment of the Match - Tommy
Tommy is definitely our Mr Consistent this season, putting in strong performances week in week out and today was no exception. Winning the moment of the match for a brilliant slide tackle towards the end of the game to stop a dangerous Tickton counter attack when the scores were level at 6-6!

The ‘Other’ Award - Mason
This could be a harsh one, but one he kind of awarded himself for his miss towards the end of the game! And if he didn’t, Frankie definitely nominated him for it while we were giving out the trophies 😂
Luckily he saw the funny side of it, took it in his stride and it didn’t take away from the massive contribution he made to our comeback in the game!

Today we travelled to Longcroft School to take on AFC Tickton Thunder.
As the game kicked off you could see Thunder were up for this game and took an early lead making it 1-0.
We responded quickly with Ollie playing in Harrison C to level the scores a minute later.
We struggled to get going and get into the game and Tickton kept the pressure up, scoring with a long range effort in the 9th minute.
We managed to respond in the 15th when Mollie slid in Harrison C to equalised 2-2!
We hoped this would help us kick on, but our passes were missing and we were second to every ball. Then Thunder scored another long range effort in the 25th minute to make it 3-2 and we set off the self destruct button, conceding 3 more over the next 5 minutes and headed into the half time break 6-2 down!

Tickton completely deserved their lead at half time and had out worked us in every area of the pitch.
There were some stern words said at half time and the full team acknowledged they hadn’t been working how they should. We knew we could salvage the game if they woke up and kicked on.
We encouraged them to outwork their opponents, the long grass didn’t allow for dribbling and fancy footwork in tight spaces like we kept trying to do, we had to move the ball faster, find our passes and get moving into space.
They went back out with new motivation and a clear message of what was needed.
From the start of the second half you could see we had woke up, the movement was better, we’d closed the gaps we had been leaving, and we were moving the ball a lot better.
5 minutes into the half some good play on the right released Frankie, who rifled in a shot from the edge of the area to make it 6-3!
Tickton tried to respond but we defended a lot better, moving the ball forward and putting pressure on the Tickton defence. It took another 10 minutes, then Harrison B drove the ball forward before releasing Frankie, who made no mistakes to make it 6-4! Could the comeback be on!?
In the 55th minute Fin fed in Harrison B on the edge of the box who skipped past a defender and fired into the bottom corner! 6-5!
You could feel the belief in the team now as we worked for every ball and attacked with purpose! The equaliser only took another 3 minutes as Ollie tapped the ball back to Harrison C who showed brilliant footwork to create an opening, scoring his hat trick and making it 6-6 in the 58th minute!
We knew we had Tickton on the ropes, but they hadn’t given up yet and kept trying to attack, forcing a save off Jacob and firing close a couple of times in the closing stages!
Mason thought he had the winner in the 65th minute with the goal in front of him, but a horrific bobble took the ball away from him as he shot and it went over! As gutted as he was, his head didn’t drop as he worked hard to create for his teammates.
Then in the dying seconds Henry pumped a long ball down the right, the defender misjudged the flight of the ball and Frankie pounced onto it, driving down the right and into the box, hitting her shot hard and low into the bottom corner, completing her hat trick and our come back to make it 6-7!

Full Time
AFC Tickton Thunder 6-7 Longhill Ravens Reds

This was definitely the definition of a game of 2 halves.
Thunder had deserved their lead at half time after a brilliant first half performance.
Luckily we managed to come back into it in the second half and just had enough, with the winner coming less than a minute before the end of the game!
Thank you to AFC Tickton Thunder for a cracking game, and good luck for the rest of your season!

Goals

Harrison C ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Frankie ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Harrison B ⚽️

Assists
Ollie x 2
Mollie
Fin x 2
Harrison B
Henry

This week we’re at Longcroft School to take on AFC Tickton Thunder!

Having already faced off in both the league and cup we know to expect a competitive game tomorrow.
We’ll have to be ready from the first kick though as Thunder will be out to avenge the results from earlier in the season!



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Very hard fought game today against Beverley Town, who showed why they are currently sat at the top of the table!
We cancelled each other out early on with Bev taking the lead, before we equalised a couple of minutes later through Harrison C.
Bev then took control of the half, winning the first and second balls and raced into a 3-1 half time lead.

We reset at half time and encouraged the team to up their work rate and tempo in the second half. Both teams had a slow start to the second half, but we grew into it quickly and started to put Bev under some real pressure coming close to scoring a number of times! As soon as we got our Second, again scored by Harrison C you could see the belief in the team lift and we went after the game and took control. With 10 mins remaining Harrison C burst into the box only to be brought down by the defender, he got up, dusted himself down and smashed in the penalty with power giving the keeper no chance to make it 3-3!
We tried to keep this pressure up, but with just 2 minutes remaining we got caught on the counter attack and the Bev striker coolly slid the ball past the on rushing Jacob to make it 4-3 to Bev.