MATCH REPORT- SAT 8 OCTOBER

ROCKETS 3 - 4 ELTON YOUTH

A frustrating result and performance as the boys went down to our first league defeat of the season.

After brilliant passing displays against Blacon and Ellesmere Port, when we got in behind teams, and following a really good training session we felt we could get a result.

Unfortunately though we showed our opposition far too much respect, with tackles and belief lacking in the first 10 minutes as Elton eased into a 0-1 lead.

Across the park bad habits crept back in against the one team in the league you don't run at! We needed to move them about as we knew they can tackle and break; so over doing dribbles wasn't the way forward and wasn't what we'd talked about...

However, after a poor start we did manage to apply some pressure, gaining ground and few corners. From this the ball came out to Charlie who hit a screamer into the top of the net for his first Waverton goal! 1-1, game on and we looked like we could get on top.

In the second half unfortunately we reverted back to earlier form and went 4-1 down from a mixture of good Elton play, not clearing our lines and us never really relaxing and knocking the ball about. Perhaps we were trying to hard individually.

Fair play to the lads for coming back late on to 3-4 through a nice George right footed finish and then a goalkeeper own goal. We almost got back to 4-4 with the last kick of the match seeing the goalie deflect the ball round the post.

Elton deserved their victory today but we would have given them a better match if we could have reached the standard of play showed the previous week.

We now have a run of three matches all against last years 'A' league teams so it will be very tough few weeks if we don't play like a team - which we know WE CAN.

At training on Friday we will regroup and hope to see a reaction on Saturday.