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15Mar/22

Match Report – U13 Jaguars and U13 Dragons – 12th March

U13 Boys - Dragons, U13 Boys - Jaguars

Match Report – U13 Jaguars and U13 Dragons – 12th March

A great weekend for the U13’s boys teams with both Dragons and Jaguars securing excellent home wins at Altwood.

U13’s Dragons faced Darby Green and Potley Youth at home. It was a quiet start to the game until a good passage of play created an opportunity for Gabe Nicholson to curl home the opener from the left wing. An injury to one of our defenders meant Darby Green responded with two well worked goals and led 2-1 at half time, and continued to apply pressure after the break. The Dragons switched from 4-4-2 to 3-5-2 to limit Darby’s midfield control, which swung the momentum back to the Dragons, who now launched multiple attacks. With three more goals from Gabe Nicholson and an excellent header by Malachai Randolph from a perfect Stanley Wilcockson corner.

A few words from man of the match Brett, who responded well and kept our deference strong following the early substitution of Jay Harvey.

“We started the game off strong with a few early chances our first goal come from a beautiful pass from Noah into Gab who smartly knew the keeper was off his line. Gabe chipped the keeper to make it 1-0 to the dragons.
From this we got a bit carried away and let the opposition get more possession of the ball and before we knew it we were 2-1 down with the half time approaching.
With a brilliant team talk at half time from our coaches we all got pumped up and realised we were still in this game we just had to put a few things right and to dig deep and give 100% which is exactly what the dragons did!!!”

Final score 5-2 to the dragons, who maintain their 100% record!

The wins continued as the 13’s Jaguars took to the field against Caversham AFC Dragons. The match started well with early pressure from Maidenhead, but the visitors scored first with a well worked goal. Jaguars responded immediately thanks to a brilliant passing move started in midfield by David Yakubovich and finished neatly by Harrison Gilmour.

The match was competitive throughout, but Jaguars continued to apply pressure through fast attacking play, and a robust defence limiting Caversham’s shooting opportunities.

Jaguars went on to secure a 4-1 home victory, Harrison netting twice, a well-deserved goal from man of the match Andrew Lee, and a coolly finished fourth from Dexter Mitchell in the final moments.

25Sep/21

Maidenhead U13 Dragons Boys v Sandhurst Town U13 Reds

U13 Boys - Dragons

Maidenhead U13 Dragons 5 v Sandhurst Town U13 Reds 3

It could have been tough coming into the game following last weeks defeat but some focused training, a few position changes and 100% input from all players and today’s match against sandhurst was a very different story.

A lack of attention in the first half lead to two quick goals for sandhurst which was completely against the run of play and heads could have dropped but spirits remained high and Dragons kept applying pressure.

The second half started similar to the first with Dragons dominating possession. The break through finally came. Gabe ran through and similar to last week struck a right foot shot from distance to make it 1-2. Further persistence in midfield from Stan allowed him to run clean through and convert a low powerful shot for 2-2.

The third for Dragons came from the right with a deep cross from Noah which was met at the far post with an accurate header from Matthew. A great goal with a great celebration. 3-2

Dragons seemed to back off a little once they were in the lead and it wasn’t long before sandhurst levelled. 3-3.

But again Dragons heads didn’t go down. They remained positive with good pressure from Morgan and Tom.

There was some nice play in midfield between Tom and Stan.

For the next goal Stan took the ball from an Owen goal kick and released a through ball to Gabe who ran through and scored a low shot to make it 4-3.

Joshua pushing up front was rewarded with a simple tap in and great celebrations!

Today’s defence was strong with effective tackles and clearances from Curtis and Jay at Fullbacks. Brett made a number of strong clearances with his headers and Matthew was calm and composed for the second week running.

Noah’s throw ins are proving very effective and Owen pulled off some strong saves.

A great victory but more important great attitude from everyone.