COLCHESTER & DISTRICT YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE FIXTURES / RESULTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY 20-1-08

Match Reports are at the foot of this page. Any incorrect results / Goal scorers -Please contact the age group fixture secretary.

Under 11’s B League

Holland Blues 2 Long Melford 0 (J Bradfield, T Williams) (-)

All other Under 11’s games Postponed

Under 12’s All games Postponed

Under 13’s B League

Colchester Athletic 1 Boadicea Dynamos 11 (L Shepard) (R Gemmell 5 H Voss 2 J Shaw L Bodle S Nutall K Lockhart)

Under 13’s C League

Earls Colne 10 Oyster Youth 2 (M Cross 3, J Fitzsimons 2, A Smith 2, J Busbee, Z Street, A Baker) (none given)

All other Under 13’s games Postponed

Under 14s A League

Colchester Athletic Blues 4 Stanway Villa 2 (B Ohara 2 B Tionion J Smith) (not given)

Lexden Saints Blues 8 Lawford Juniors 1 (L Williams 2 L Bailey L Axcell J Harrison L Reed D Garna OG) (not given)

Under 14s B League

Wivenhoe Youth 7 St Edmunds 0 (J Vaugh 3 B Gisling 2 T Bush L Dadds) (Not Given)

Under 14s C League

Colchester Athletic Reds 2 Long Melford 1 (S Sage 2) (B Roper)

All other Under 14’s games Postponed

Under 15s A League

Lexden Saints 4 Colchester Athletic 1 (A Faraday, S Johnson 2, N Scott) (-)

All other Under 15’s games Postponed

Under 16’s All games Postponed

Under 18’s All games Postponed

Under 14’s Lexden Saints Blues v Lawford (League)

Date:	Sunday 20^th January 2008
Score:	8-1
Scorers:	Williams 2, Harrison, Garner, Bailey, Axcell, Reid & OG

With the amount of rain that fell on Saturday the pitch was surprisingly in good condition as the Saints switched to Layer for this home game.

Lawford were looking to avenge the season opener and started brightly but were against it with a strong wind in their faces. Lexden put their defence under pressure early and worked the ball to the wings well which made them turn, but when the ball came across the Lawford keeper made two saves when one–on-one that kept them in the game.

Lexden continued to press and it was 1-0 after ten minutes when Josh Harrison latched onto a through ball and whipped one under the keeper after ten minutes. Prior to that, Lawford had a nice move down the left with a good clipped cross finding its way to the striker but he leant back and shot over the bar.

In the fourteenth minute it was 2-0 with an unfortunate own goal, Reid went down the left, cut the ball inside to Harrison and his cross-shot was cleared by a defender but only to the heels of another sky blue and with the keeper wrong-footed it ran over the line.

There were a few further attempts but the game was a little flat when Lawford then struck on thirty one minutes. Lexden failed to deal with a ball in the box and the clearance fell to the grateful Lawford player who tucked it past the defender and keeper from eight yards to make it 2-1 and the game was more open once more.

The first half drew to a close and Lexden made several changes. Within a minute of the re-start they reinstated the two goal advantage and were 3-1 up. Luc Williams went down the left, drew the keeper and finished well into the corner.

The Lexden defence of Ben Phillips, Elliot Lamb and Lewis Bailey were coping with the Lawford attack, and although things were a little more even in midfield their defence was looking more vulnerable as the attacks started to mount.

It then became four in the forty fifth minute when Deasko Garner pounced on a bouncing ball in the box and beat the keeper to his left; 4-1.

Lexden continued to press and were looking dangerous with every attack as the game went on. Indeed from a corner on the right, Williams clipped a ball in and Lewis Bailey up from the back rose (with the aid of a fire-ladder) to meet the ball and his header flew into the top corner of the far post to make it 5-1.

Williams then scored his second and Lexden’s sixth when he ran through onto a ball from Ed Field over the full-back on the right and shot just inside the box. The keeper managed to get a hand on it and the ball cannoned back off the post to Harrison. His shot rebounded from the covering defender to a grateful Williams who tucked it away neatly with a curling left foot shot into the far corner at waist level; 6-1.

Lewis Axcell then added his name to the score sheet when he came in from the left and scored past the advancing keeper to make it 7-1 after fifty nine minutes. Lexden were looking strong coming forward and were stretching the defence at every opportunity. A few long range efforts from Jake Hughes either struck his own player or whistled past the post, but Lawford continued to harry and had a couple of attacks that may have brought them more reward but for the covering Saints defence.

The game was wrapped up in the seventieth minute when Leo Reid ghosted in at the far post to score with a diving header from a corner on the left that evaded all others; 8-1.