2nd March 2008
Blues earn a great victory over a strong Swans side
After a poor performance by our standards last week, myself and Huw Lloyd asked for character and a good attitude to bounce back. We knew we were playing a top side today and we needed to be 100% switched on. On a small pitch which suited the home side the match was all about good defending and chances came but were cancelled out by both sides as an even first period ended 0-0. In the second period we started better and created a couple of openings, Evan Corcoran went close and Taylor Golding nearly put us ahead but it was super-sub Darcy who did it again, finding space and his strike made it 1-0 to us. From that moment Swansea came at us. They had good possession and played a good passing game but some great tracking back by Ashley, Nathan and new land Macauley in midfield was superb and prevented the home side creating many chances. However a mistake let them in and made it 1-1, a deserved scoreline I thought. In the interval our boys were told to keep it up but we needed to be a bit more physical, not aggressive, but strong and we were. We started to win out battles to gain the upper hand and a ball from Tom found Calvin (although ill he still played) and he made a great run on the right before putting in a fantastic cross for Evan who had made 15 yards to clip the ball in to make it 2-1. Top football and from then on we were not about to lose, we wanted this as they came at us in the last seven minutes. Our defending was fabulous. Today was another great result, it is what Academy football is all about. Changing rooms buzzing and a great atmosphere amongst the lads. Well done lads again I am proud of you. There is still room for improvement though so look out Wednesday in training. Man of the match today was Thomas Murray, the smallest player on the pitch but strength like Hercules.
David Davies
Port Talbot Town Under-12‘s Academy Coach