Match Report is Here!!

As the season turned festive Melee took to the rubber crumb on a horrible wet december night. With spirits low, a lack of warm-up and certain team members thinking about the Xbox 360 a slow start was on the cards. Melee went two down early doors with a couple of long range efforts that swerved viscously! Quickly Melee realised they needed to up their game and soon started place their influence on the opposition. A quick fire scoring spree saw all four outfield players score, the highlight coming as Daudi hammered in a long shot, to see Sam 'the special one' uel cheekily flick the ball through his legs to beat the stationery keeper.

This left the score 5-3 with Melee in the accendence. The rest of the first half saw some slick pass and move footy, although the opposition did their best to help make Melee look good. The Coup bro's worked hard both scoring a couple of excellent goals, while Samuca was his normal majestic self. Defensively Melee were in control with the ex-jonny panda commanding his back line, however some good play from one Chorleywood player left him scoring all the goals, mostly from long shots. Some neat finishing left Melee 12-6 up at half-time.

Melee kept to their normal tradition by starting the second half slower than an overweight tortoise. Chorleywood took advantage of the slack start and placed the ball past the keeper three times before Melee replied. Of course it was the wee 'magic man' who got involved with a nice passing move to finish the ball home. Second half finishing was poor compared to the first with al, sam and dave (pen) all missing from 3 yards. However the game never looked in doubt and Melee crusied to a 17-12 victory, collecting another 3 points to keep the very slim chance of promotion alive.

Highlights - Jonny Fudge nut megging one guy, strolling past another and finishing with a class far to good for the Chorley players

Lowlights - Team second half performance was lack luster as opposition should have been dominated. (as jonny said after the game - "they only had one guy, we should have man marked" - you could say wise words, you could say foolish, we will never know!!)

Player Ratings -

Samuel - 8 (MOM) - Brilliant again, superb tricks, great goals, bullied opposition defence

Alex - 8 - Worked tirelessly all game, scored some good goals and got back to make some crucial challenges.

Dave - 8 - Comfortable performance, part of some class passing moves, scored a cracker but missed a pen

Nick - 8 - Commanding performace at the back, never did anything wrong, had the striker in his pocket the whole game. Most goals were conceded from long range or keeper error.

Kev - 7 - Some good saves, some bad. some good distribution, some bad, but all in all not a bad return for a man who still cant walk properly

yours sincerley

the match report man