Match Report

St.Mary's 0 Square FC 1

Saturday 6th October 2007

A fine start to the under 12’s season continued with a 1-0 victory over a spirited St. Mary’s side. With Square’s Regular goalkeeper Callum Strachan not available Jay Samsa stepped in to fill the keeper’s position. St Mary’s started the game very well and kept John Hearn and Sam Lee very busy in the Square defence. As the half continued Square began to assert themselves with Chris Gransby marshalling the midfield and Jonas Allen having a couple of great chances to open the scoring, but both sides were happy to go into the break level at 0-0.

The second half started with Square on the attack from the beginning and opened the scoring with Jack Hatton laying on the ball for Jonas to score. Stuart Perkins Replaced John in the Square defence and made a series of great tackles to maintain Squares Advantage.

St. Mary’s continued to press throughout the second half and with some fine defending from Joe Gee, Square were put under great pressure. With only minutes remaining St. Mary’s were throwing everyone forward to try and find the equaliser but With Chris covering every blade of grass Square managed to hold out, giving a third straight victory at the beginning of the new season.

Man of the match:

Chris Gransby.