Match report

Match report

The players were treated to a glorious day at Basket Range (a winter treat) for their match against Bridgewater White. Thanks to James Dumuid from Bridgewater who offered to join our team for the match to help balance numbers.

With the pitch playing well, the boys quickly settled into a good structure and controlled the ball in their forward half. After numerous forward thrusts and a few close calls on goal, Edward opened the scoring for the ‘Reds’.

After earlier playing in defence, Gus made the most of two quick chances before half time with some clinical finishing to reward the teams first half effort. There were a few red cheeks as the players came off for a well earned break. Coach Bob encouraged the boys to continue with the same effort and use their skills and ball control.

The Woodside cheer squad were treated to numerous highlights in the second half. Benji controlled the ball off the back line and cut through the midfield with several accurate passes. Fletcher continued to corral the opposition and made numerous runs down the right wing and followed up with controlled passing to the forwards. Eddie continued to play a vital role in midfield and was rarely beaten 1:1 and showed good vision to find a team mate.

After some excellent passing by Bridgewater, it looked as though they would make a breakthrough but they were denied by an excellent save by Oliver - who was pretty thrilled!!

Liam showed excellent positional awareness as a forward and was always lurking at the ‘top of the box’.

Hayden enjoyed the freedom in midfield and made several runs cutting the ball past the opposition and found the back of the net twice.

Goals to Gus, Benji, Fletcher and James in the second half rounded out an excellent half of football and a great team effort.