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Surrey Primary League Under 15 Senior Cup Final
6th May 2012
Chertsey Town Football Ground
Hampton Youth v AFC Brooklands
This was always going to be a difficult game to call between the
teams lying 2nd and 3rd in the league, with just two games to
go. Although AFC Brooklands should have been confident after
beating the SPL Premier Division Champions in the semi final.
The match started with Hampton having the better of the early
exchanges. both teams obviously wanted to play passing football
which would created a great final. Brooklands have two early
chances but them nerves set in and Hampton took control of the
game. Hampton had a string of attacks and set pieces, which
centre backs Matt Gratton and Alex Edwards battled and scrabbled
clear, but on a couple of occasions Charlie Budd need to make
crucial saves. Hampton were attacking down both wings making our
wingers Dominic Price and Luke Wayte play much more defensive
roles than normal. The Hampton centre midfield pair were
controlling the game putting more and more pressure on our
defence and making it difficult for us to get out of our half.
The introduction of Jake Tudge saw us start to retain more of
the ball with blistering pace on both wings allowed to push
Hampton back. One break down the left wing saw a cross to
Freddie Wilkinson whose shoot hit the post from 20 yards. We
ended the half the stronger teams we started to settle into the
game.
The half time team talk concentrated on the boys not showing the
Hampton team so much respect and to push hard to the first 10
minutes of the half.
We made a more confident start to the second half, which saw the
boys get more and more involved in the game. After a couple of
chances either way Then on 8 minutes Brooklands took the ball
down the right wing the through ball allowed Freddie Wilkinson
to clip the ball passed the Hampton keeper. By this point Sam
Khera and Brandon Lonslow had started to match the aggression
and work rate of the Hampton midfield pair. But with 5 minutes
all the hard work went to waste as a misplaced pass allowed
Hampton to break with our defence out of position the Hampton
striker calmly placed the ball in the net. Hampton had the
strong spell while we recovered our composure. Both our
fullbacks now started to gain more space to push forward and
join our attack creating more options in the Hampton half.
With 10 minutes to go injury forced a major change around push
Sam back to centre back, Freddie into midfield and Tudge up
front. This started a period where we started to be more
dominate than Hampton as we pushed on for the win. The bulk of
normal time was now played in the Hampton half during which we
came close to winning the game twice but without success the
game finished 1-1.
So extra time started and we continued to push on but there was
only 1 real chance which the Hampton keeper saved. The second
period was still tight with neither team wanting to make a
mistake that would cost their team the game. With 1 minute to go
Matt Taylor collected the ball took on the centre back wide
stopped and timed the perfect cross for the late arriving
Freddie only for the ball shoot to rocket over the bar.
So penalties the cruellest way to settle a game.
Out stepped Matt Taylor to take the first penalty and
confidently put it away.
Hampton matched this with an equally confident strike.
Charlie (Ramos) Budd blasted his kick over the bar.
The Hampton no.2 stepped forward and Charlie started his
Grobbelaar goal line dance and the shot went wide.
Jake Tudge took our 3rd pen and placed and unstoppable shot into
the top corner.
Charlie again proved himself to be the best keeper on the day by
diving to save Hampton's 3rd pen.
Luke Wayte nervously moved forwarded his kick narrowly squeezed
under the keeper.
The crunch spot kick if Charlie could save it the cup was ours
the Hampton midfielder hit a weak kick which allowed Charlie to
save
AFC Brooklands win the the SPL Senior Cup.
To finish a great day Matt Gratton was named SPL man of the
match.
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