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| 8/10/2000 |
City |
4 |
Fareham |
0 |
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| 15/10/2000 |
City |
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Reed's
School |
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Report |
| 5/11/2000 |
Hamble |
0 |
City |
2 |
Report |
| 17/12/2000 |
City |
6 |
Trojans |
2 |
Report |
| 14/01/2001 |
Havant |
2 |
City
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8 |
Report |
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28/01/2001
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Gosport
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City
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| 25/02/2001 |
City |
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Southampton |
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| 25/3/2001 |
U12 Festival |
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| 8/4/2001 |
City |
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Hamble |
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| 7/5/2001 |
Hamsphire
Cup Finals Day |
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U12
Victory Match Reports
Gosport
0 - City of Portsmouth 9
Gosport 0 - 9 City Of Portsmouth, City's second U12 team kept up their 100%
record away to Gosport with a comfortable 9-0 victory. This despite missing
two players away on Hampshire under 13's duty, and Gosport bringing on their
under 16's goalkeeper for the second half. Credit to Gosport as they fought
gamely to the end but with skipper James Lawson in outstanding form in the
centre of midfield and with Sean McEnri commanding the back line, they found
themselves up against a team that were obviously on a hot streak. Lawson grabbed
himself a hat-trick and Martin Stone, always tricky in his wide right role,
bagged two. Other goals came from a McEnri short corner strike, Dail Peppard,
Rob Pettitt and Jade Knight.
Team: Matt Forest, James Lawson, Martin Stone, Sean McEnri, Dail Peppard, Will Alsop, Adam Lancaster, David Pettitt, Rob Pettitt, James Rogers, Jade Knight, Carl Mitchell, Miles Spence, Andrew Gould, Jamie Landi.
Havant
2 - City of Portsmouth 8
The second string, Victory, who were also shorn of the services of two players
on Hampshire duty, went one better at home against Havant as they cruised
to an impessive 8 - 2 win. Man-of-the-match, James Rogers, inspired most of
the best moves in this one sided encounter where Martin Stone scored a hat-trick
of individual efforts, James Lawson cracked in a fine goal from the top of
the circle, and youngsters Adam Payne (2) and Tim Batchelor kept the scoreline
ticking over. The most impressive goal, and the best finish, was reserved
for Jade Knight who delicately deflected home an excellent right wing cross
from Stone.
City
of Portsmouth 6 - Trojans 2
So near and yet so far! For the first time this season City fielded three U12s teams on the same
day and they were only 5 minutes from a clean sweep of three wins.
City's Victory team swept to an impressive 6 - 0 victory over Trojans from Southampton. Although Trojans put up a stubborn defensive display for the first period it was only a matter of time before their defences were to be breached and once Rob Wilson opened the scoring the flloodgates definitely could not be shut. The influential Steve Batten ran the midfield and added two goals, also keeping Wilson and the predatory James Lawson supplied with opportunity after opportunity. Lawson also bagged a brace and the final nail in the coffin was supplied by James Rogers. Particularly impressive was San MacEnri who marshalled the defence with increasing confidence and Jade Knight who made her full debut with a performance full of running which promises much for the future.
Hamble 0
- City of Portsmouth 2
Meanwhile City's other U12 team
travelled to Hamble and although they ran out comfortable 2 - 0 winners it
could have been so many more. Unfortunately they flattered with their superior
stick skills but failed to work convincingly as a team and also squandered
chance after chance in front of goal. Hamble had their sweeper to thank for
breaking up many promising moves but he couldn't stop sniffer James Lawson
who scored both of City's goals. Spare a thought for Matt Forrest in goal
- he did not touch the ball once as City kept Hamble pinned in their own half.
The home side only managed to get the ball into his shooting circle twice
and on neither occasion were they able to muster a shot at goal.
Team: M Forrest, D Pettit, R
Pettit, M Stone, A Lancaster, W Alsop, G Rogers, C Wilson, S Batten, M Hall,
J Lawson, J Landi, Daniel.
City ? -
Reeds School ?
City 4 -
Fareham 0
City's first home match saw
the season off on the right foot with a very comfortable stuffing of Fareham.
As it was the first game in charge for Chris Wimshurst he did not know how
well the youngsters would gel as a team. After seeing them all together I
can now say we have a very strong team and hope to do very well this season.
We were on top of this game from the start and never really let Fareham in
with a chance. City took the lead in the first third through a well converted
rebound by Rob Pettit, which was also his debut for the club. At the end of
the first period we looked comfortably in control, and went on to add a second
and third goal in the second third. The second came from Rob Wilson with a
penalty corner strike we will be hearing about for weeks to come, and the
third was an excellently engineered solo effort by Laura Kirk.
The 3rd third heralded another goal which was some how scored by our centre
back, Craig Martin, who throughout thought that the best form of defence was
to attack - this made it four nil - and put the game way beyond Fareham.
Our defence was not with out its money's worth when our star goalkeeper, Matt
Forest, (who was, incidentally, the loudest person on the pitch - including
the coaches), decided that the best way to stop them scoring was to be caught
with gloves off and stick on the floor as one of their strikers lined up his
shot! Even with this disadvantage somehow 'Mighty Mouth' saved the day and
kept a clean sheet.
An all round good game against a pretty good Fareham side. Well done to all
who took part.