Academy Juniors Football Tournament

Under 11s Teams 

Academy Juniors

Mill Hill Girls FC

Burnley FC Girls

Bury Ladies & Girls

The weather was glorious and not too warm, minimal wind and the two pitch's named pitch 3 and pitch 4, were soft under foot with a slight gradient from one end to the other with a defined rise to the centre.

Tournament rules are each match is 15 minutes long with no half time or swapping sides at half time.

First Match

Bury Ladies & Girls v  Burnley FC Girls

Bury Girls will have played the Burnley Girls three times in as many weeks after this match and were quite familiar with each others style of play.  Both teams were evenly matched but after 5 minutes Burnley scored 0:1.  Bury did not get disheartened they kept stringing good accurate passes together Nicole would win the ball, pass to Emma. Then Emma would pass to Tiegan and Tiegan would pass to Ellie cutting through the Burnley defence, time and time again showing good foot balling skills and team work, at least one ball hit the wood work. Finally Ellie crosses the ball to Emma who controls the ball, passes the Burnley defenders and scores 1:1

Final Score:  Bury Ladies & Girls 1    Burnley FC Girls 1

Second Match

                                    Bury Ladies & Girls  v  Mill Hill Girls FC. 

At kick off the Bury Girls could sense the lack of experience in the opposition and really put the pressure on and played the whole game in the Mill Hill's half, Nicole was the Bury goal keeper and she had just one touch in 15 minutes. Every one else was in attack, balls were being kicked at the goal mouth with a sense of wild abandon and missing, then Ellie passes to Emma who trickled the ball between the keepers legs and scores 1:0. Mill Hill takes the ball to the centre to kick off and Bury take possession. Ellie again passes to Emma who again trickles the ball over the line with the weakest of kicks 2:0. Then Ellie runs up the right wing as she has done dozens of times before kicks a high ball at the goal the keeper sees it and stretches and reaches for the ball, misses and Ellie scores 3:0)J

Then Tiegan gets the ball from Ellie, runs across the goal mouth and scores 4:0

The stage is set for a free for all and Kayla obliges, controls the ball kicked from a goal mouth scramble, aims and gives it a good kick and the ball sails passed the keeper 5:0.

Finally, Ellie proving that scoring from the right wing was not a fluke knocks another one in 6:0J

Final Score:  Bury Ladies & Girls  6    Mill Hill Girls FC.  0

Third Match 

                                     Bury Ladies & Girls  v   Academy Juniors

For some reason Bury Girls did not get a foot hold in the match they could not control Academy Juniors. Soon Bury Girls were 0:1 down but again they would not give in without a fight. Nicole had a good shot on target made the keeper stretch but unfortunately held on to the ball. Then Academy Juniors got another goal 0:2L

Final Score:   Bury Ladies  & Girls 0    Academy Juniors 2

Forth Match

Bury Ladies  & Girls v   Mill Hill Girls FC.

This match was to decide the 3rd and 4th place in the tournament.  Bury Girls start off by having lots of shots on goals and missing for the first five minutes, next Ellie scores 1:0.  The goals start happening after that,  Emma gets within shooting distance position's herself for another goal then passes to the right to Ellie who drives it home 2:0.  After that Emma gets one for herself 3:0. Ellie has now perfected the cross from the right wing and gets the fourth 4:0 and straight after scores another 5:0. Emma adopts the same position in front of the net but this time passes to Tiegan who slots it home 6:0 and the last goal was scored by Emma 7:0. J

Final Score:  Bury Ladies & Girls   7    Mill Hill Girls FC.  0

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