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U15's Saturday Division One Notts Youth League

Hucknall Sports 1 West Bridgford Spiders 7

15/4/14

10 days after narrowly missing out on a famous victory to Spiders after a last minute equaliser Sport entertained West Bridgford at home in their penultimate Division One game.

Sports started the match with a 4-3-1-2 formation in the hope that this would bring goals. Unfortunately, it completely backfired on them and by half-time they were losing 3-0. Spiders found space in behind Sports backline time and again and showed some clinical finishing. Hucknall had their chances to score but just couldn't find the back of the net. Darlow just missed out on applying the final touch to a lovely move that deserved a goal. Inexplicably a dreadful challenge on Mitch Davies in the penalty box went completely unpunished and shots from midfielders Jarrod Davies and Charlie Blatherwick were well saved by the opposition Keeper.

Half-Time: Hucknall Sports 0 West Bridgford 3

Sports started reasonably and Dante Diriso sprinted onto a terrific Blatherwick through ball only to be denied by the keeper. But slack play saw them concede a fourth goal before Jarrod Davies smashed his team back into the game after a neat one-two with Dante Diriso. Unbelievable Spiders scored straight from the restart after a long punt to the corner found Sports defenders napping. Hucknall refused to give up and Blatherwick was unlucky not to find the net after a couple of brilliant moves presented him with chances for first time volley's that only narrowly missed the target. A Jarrod Davies header smashed he cross-bar and another shot from the same player was well saved. Every time Sports looked like getting back into the game they either lost players to injury or Spiders grabbed another goal. They showed some clinical finishing that Sports just could not match.

Full-Time: Hucknall Sports 1 West Bridgford 7

Well it was hard to find any consolation in this result which goes down as Sports worst in the last three seasons. All too often passes went astray and any movement was in short supply. Decision making when receiving the ball was often poor as players chose to keep hold of the ball and take on opposition rather than playing in their team mates. Far too often tracking back by midfielders was non-existent leading to defenders being stretched all over the park.

Sports players know that they did not do themselves justice in this performance and thankfully there is one more game to go to put things right. Let's end the season with a victory and prove to everyone that this result was a 'freak' and Hucknall Sports are much better than they showed tonight.