Training Game at Home Against Buckhurst Hill

Before I get into the news regarding today's friendly training games we have a great picture of all the of Forest Glade Under 6 players from Team GMB, Serendipity and Sigma Broking wearing their respective kits. This will surely be one for the future scrap book collections.

 



Great picture of the FG U6's Teams GMB, Serendipity and Sigma Broking.


 

So today we had all 3 teams playing at home against Buckhurst Hill Football Club.Apologies for slight delay getting started however I visiting team had some unexpected traffic difficulties. In the end this worked in a favour as it meant all 3 teams could play in parallel and they could play full 40 min matches rather than the original plan for just 30 mins. This blog will mostly focus on the team GMB match as I could not be at all 3 games simultaneously. However I know there are pictures from the other matches which will follow shortly.

 

Anyway, overall I think all 3 teams were tested a little bit more than last weeks away games at Upminster. Today we ended up with 2 good wins and 1 loss. Team GMB played outstanding and were really coming together as a cohesive unit, so much so that it almost seemed unfair to pick a single player for Man of the Match. The game had everything from good tackles, great runs, super goals, strings of passes, positional awareness, forward runs, solid goal keeping and so on. Within the team we seemed to have 3 clear players that fitted into a defencive role and 3 that fitted into a midfield/attacking role, then Reily who was an absolute rock in goal. On the negative side our defence was often caught playing too far up field leaving us open for the counter. It was a pleasure to watch this team working together today.

 



Joshua, Ben and Darcy formed the strike force for Team GMB and run back to then own half celebrating an early lead.

 

Mantos was solid in defence and provided multiple challenges and clearances today.

Reily was an absolute Rock in goal today and made some good saves.

Owen organising the team and FG prepare to defend against a corner.

Great action shot of Jamie who was playing very good in defence today but was not afraid to run with the ball either.

Darcy certainly had her fair share of ball time today and was on a mission to score as many goals as possible.

Darcy and Owen get ready for a centre kick-off.

Jamie and Owen holding the back line whilst Joshua and Darcy wait for them to feed the ball through.

Joshua scored a hatrick today but was also making some great defencive runs back when required and then out muscling the opposition.

Ben has settled into a striker role for Team GMB and made plenty of good runs today plus scoring for Team GMB.

3 cheers from Forest Glade at the end of a very entertaining match.

Like I said earlier it was tough to pick the MOTM from Team GMB today and it almost seemed cruel to only give out one medal. However after a brief discussions between the coaches and some of the parents it was agreed that this weeks MOTM was Reily for his great performance in goal. A really good weekend of football for Reily what with picking up the trainer of the week trophy yesterday and the MOTM medal today. 

Reily wins the MOTM medal for Team GBM today.

Pictures and reports from the other two training matches will hopefully follow shortly. However the MOTM medals from these two games went to Charlie and Sam. Well done boys. 

Charlie striking a pose as he shows us his MOTM medal.

A proud Dad poses with Sam and his MOTM medal.