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RUSHDEN & HIGHAM UNITED FC U18's 0 - 5 STANSTED FC

Mark Penfold, 24 July 2010 20:25

RUSHDEN & HIGHAM UNITED FC U18's 0 - 5 STANSTED FC U18's

PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY MATCH - SATURDAY 24th JULY 2010

An excellent start to our pre-season campaign today away at Rushden. With many of our lads playing together for the first time and with no less than 8 players unavailable through holiday and injury, today was all about us learning how to play together, do the right things and start to establish our own pattern of play.

With the strength in depth and the quality in our squad, our lads put in a tremendous first performance of the season. Our defence stood strong against the 'direct' approach adopted by Rushden & with Joe & Big Bill dominating the aerial battles & with Luke & Tommy superb in the full back positions, our stand-in 'Cat' was not called into action too often!!

Well done to Jack & Harry playing together for the first time together in centre-mid and both Matty & Heskey working the flanks well.
Our starting attacking partnership of Terry the skipper & Rob looked very sharp from the off.

A first-half goal from skipper Terry Spillane put us 1-0 up and second-half goals from Rob Stapleton, Alex Findley and a brace from Jack Leachman saw us run out comfortable winners.

Well done lads, a great start. Let's keep working hard, we have plenty to look forward to this season as we continue our football development towards senior football.

Mark Penfold