After 2 weeks off due to snow and frost, Farnborough U14's got back in action in the Premier League with an away encouter with the Staines Lamma Youth - SPL Prem winners two seasons ago.
Although Staines were mid table, their results had been close, with a fairly good goal difference. The game started very well, when in the first minute Ryan M latched on to a great through ball from Tom to drill the ball across the Staines goalkeeper into the far corner for a great finish.
Once Staines settled they started playing some good football but the defence of Josh Evans, Josh Rutt, Okey and Harry Small were solid, assisted by the protection of Matt C and Scott Butcher.
The next chance fell to Ollie, who received a great ball from Callum to turn onto his left foot and hit a good shot which beat the goalkeeper but came back off the bar. A couple more half chances by Farnborough were squandered and the ref blew the whistle for half time with the score 1-0 to us.
The half-time team talk consisted of winning the ball back quicker and working on looking after possession better. Adam, Ed, James, Joe M and Josh O'Reilly all came on at half time and settled well with the game mainly being played in the Staines half.
Staines then scored a good goal when they broke well and had a 4 on 2 catching our defence out and finishing well giving Adam no chance. A couple more good chances went our way before we scored again but the linesman ruled the goal offside much to our rejoicing.
Rutty, Harry S, Tom B and Scott came back on and Tom B was in the action straight away when he had a great shot which was going into the top corner only for the GK to pull off a great save. With about 2 minutes to go, and with us camped in the Staines half, Scott hit a no nonsense ball into the box for Harry Small to rise like a salmon and head home the winner.
A good performance by both sides, but we just wanted to win the game more in the end, taking our run of vistories in the Premier league to 11 from 11. Well done to the whole team. A great effort.
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