St Aubyns Topple Tournament Winners

More 1st XI success Monday 15 September 2008

St Aubyns first team continued their winning ways against a side from Hursterpoint full of confidence from winning the recent Ardingly Tournament. Our goal was to make a robust start, try to catch our visitors in the early stages of the game and avoid conceding an early goal as we had done the previous week. We had a dream start within the space of two minutes with our striker Max Ettinger, who is improving with every game, burying the ball in the back of the net after a perfectly weighted corner from Nick Wright. This early success was followed with goals from Savious Ndau, Nick Wright and one from Charlie Marshall which came by way of a crisply stuck volley.

Our visitors came back with a goal from a long ball just before half time which avoided our disciplined offside trap. However, they were unable to capitalise on this and we finished the day as clear victors preserving the 1st team’s 100% record this season. However, in truth the scoreline did flatter us to a degree with the visitors squandering a number of good chances. We spent much of the second half defending. In this half Oli Graves was supreme – commanding the air in midfield and making countless goal saving interceptions and tackles. James Poulter also made a good defensive impact when he came off the bench and Ben Keeley also had his best game. We have identified ball retention and option taking as our major focuses for the week. Also, our finest scientists at the school are working on a pill to try and enable our whole squad to become as hard working as Oli Graves! Final score 4-1.