Saturday Round Up

We start our reports this week with a "variation on a theme"

Match report Wolves U7

Today's match with St Francis was a victim of the weather, however the Wolves were undeterred and instead turned their attention to shooting of a different kind by meeting up for Nerf Wars. Harry arrived in full military gear and the rest of the team had a fantastic time ducking and diving to avoid bullets. Reports vary about the result but Vinnie looked to be amongst the last standing when time was called.

AFC Stoneham JPL U9 Athletic

Wonderful performance by the Athletic U9 JPL team today, notching up their third win of the season in convincing style. Goals by Preston Brooks 3, Billy Christopher 2, Charlie Catt 1 and James Cooper made us all go homes with big smiles on our faces. All round excellent performance from the whole team and we look forward to next week.

MOTM : Billy Christopher, who was excellent from start to finish!

Enjoy your weekends.

AFC Stoneham JPL U9 Rovers

Rovers played their 1st game of 2023 against Oxfordshire RTC and gave to say probably our best performance yet.

Dominated the game from start to finish but somehow found ourself a goal behind midway through the 1st third when a swerving ball wrong footed David in goal. This goal only spurred the boys on and after going behind we took full control of the game and equalised when Harrison Jacobs cross went in through their keepers legs.

2nd third the boys were ruthless with 3 goals in the space of a few mins, 1st Chase Marjason finished in the top corner with a 1st time finish followed quickly by his 2nd and a sweet strike from Mazen Ismael after Chase hit the bar. Boys were in total control which was confirmed when Mazen Ismael scored his 2nd and our 5th.

Final third was much the same as the 2nd where we dominated and Mazen Ismael completed his hat trick with another great strike. The result was rounded off when Joshua Jacobs slotted in our 7th to complete a great performance.

POM was so difficult today as everyone contributed to the result and performance but the allocade was shared between Mazen Ismael & Chase Marjason.

Well played boys, you were all superb today.

AFC Stoneham Girls Panthers U11 2

Bedhampton Village 0

The Panthers reached the half way stage of the season with a deserved win in wet and windy conditions which made playing football very difficult.

The Panthers were on top from the start and managed to pass the ball around well, despite the conditions.

The visitors keeper made a few saves before a run down the left from Lyra saw her shot spilled by the keeper. The ball fell to the feet of Jess H who walked it into an empty net.

A Jess H penalty miss appeared to give the visitors a boost and they started to get into the game.

Midway, through the second half, Mirela received the ball in her own half and ran straight through the visitors defence to make the score 2-0.

Bedhampton were then awarded a penalty which was brilliantly saved by Abigail in the Panthers goal.

The Panthers finished the first half of the season played 9, won 8, lost 1, goals for 50, goals against 13 and in the main cup semi final.

Away POM - Lyra

Parents POM - Mirela

Manager POM - Mimi

U14s Girls Eagles

Eagles 6

Eastleigh 1

The Eagles upset top-of-the-table Eastleigh in a 7-goal thriller, making for an entertaining game in dismal conditions.

The girls were up against strong winds first half but you wouldn't have known it; their pace both on and off the ball was sharp and they took charge of the game with 2/3 touch passing and clever switch play. 2 consecutive clinical passes from Grace found Amelia who converted 2 almost identical clever lobs over the top of Eastleigh's keeper, then sealing her first half hatrick finishing bottom corner from an unselfish pass from Mataya in the box.

There was no way through our defence for Eastleigh, with our Captain Lily solid in CB and Elise and Player of the Match-Lola putting a stop to every attempt from the wings. Macey played a superb man-marking role in CDM, proving her worth.

The girls went into half-time with a comfortable 4-0 lead after another clever, unselfish pass from Mataya across the keeper found Elvin back post to slot into an empty net.

We got off to a slow start second half but after 10 minutes we moved Priya back into her CM role and continued to dominate the game for the most part, creating a hatful of chances and converting 2; a clean unstoppable strike from Mataya and a 4th net-breaker from Amelia took us to 6-0.

Eastleigh took a late chance well after breaking from a Stoneham attack to claim a consolation goal, while Elvin was denied Stoneham's 7th by the woodwork soon after, and Polly's well-earned goal disallowed for a marginal offside.

A solid team performance from every player today and a good demonstration of the football we've been working hard on, on the training ground.

Veterans

Our Vets beat Hamble 4-2 in the Vets Cup semi final to reach another cup final. Well done boys on an excellent match and result.

Well done to all of our teams !

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