East Valley 2 Hucknall Sports White 8

28/11/09
Saturday U11's Division 2
East Valley 2 Hucknall Sports White 8

Magic Performance from the 'Welsh Wizard'
Perfect playing conditions greeted Hucknall as they arrived at Goosedale Sports Complex to play East Valley for the second week running.
Regular centre-back Harry Saxton was missing for this game so Whites reorganised and played a back line of Joe Newton, Mitch Davies and Dylan Smith.

From the first whistle Whites played with the style and confidence of a team that is unbeaten in the League this season and set about East Valley with a ferocious appetite for goals. Jarrod Davies provided the muscle-in-midfield and won everything that went near him, but as well as winning the ball he also showed fantastic composure to make telling and dangerous passes time and again. Alongside Jarrod, his new midfield partner Ellis Evans refused to be outdone and he too showed just what a dangerous player he can be when given time on the ball. Up front James Hallam sacrificed everything for his team mates showing that he is much more than a goal-machine and he had a hand in many of the goals that Whites scored in the first half.
Evans opened the scoring with a brace of goals followed by a goal each from Jarrod Davies, Ryan Towle and Jacob Barlow to take Hucknall into the break leading 5-0.

Half time: East Valley 0 Hucknall Sports Whites 5

Sports introduced last weeks hero goalkeeper William Brown as a replacement striker and welcomed back Kieran Wilson to the team after an absence of 3 weeks for the second half. Ryan Towle continued his good goal scoring form with his second goal of the game and Evans completed his first hat-trick of the season with a well taken effort from a narrow angle. East Valley's lightening fast forward line scored two well taken goals to show that they had not thrown in the towel, but Hucknall closed out the game with a well deserved goal from super-striker James Hallam.

Final score: East Valley 2 Hucknall Sports Whites 8

Hucknall's Management and Coaches thought last weeks performance was good, but today's was 'out of this world'.
Sports are playing wonderful football at the moment and can't wait for next weeks Cup clash with Division One opponents.
The list of contenders for Man of the Match would include the entire squad after today's performance and Jarrod Davies in particular can once again consider himself unlucky to miss out.
But the worthy winner was the new look 'Welsh Wizard' Ellis Evans, not just for his goals but also for a magnificent show of incisive midfield passing - well done Ellis and keep wearing the headband.