Perry Barcelona 12 - 5 Opposition

Perry Barcelona turned on the style to see off the challenge of their latest oppostion. In a shock occurance, we were just too good for our opposition and absolutely played them off the park, one goal promting thier sub to exclaim that they had been "taught a footballing lesson."

The game started off well, with a fine passing move seeing Pughie race through and dink it into the bottom corner to give us the lead. He started like a man possessed and soon doubled our lead in similar fashion. However, we began to get a little cocky and got caught at the back a couple of times. Dan, who generously offered to go in goal for the first half, had no chance with the first and was unlucky to see the equaliser creep into his bottom corner. With the scores back level, Perry Barcelona knew that they needed to shape up. We did just that when Az was played through and finished neatly past the opposition keeper. Quickly after this goal, Dave smashed one home followed by an solo effort from H that saw him twist his ankle. Turning away to celebrate, H comically threw his fist into the air and nearly fell over, forcing him to hobble off straight away. Then came a contender for goal of the season, when Todd played the ball into Tapi's feet, he flicked it up for Pughie who crashed home a superb volley past the helpless goalkeeper.

At half time, the score read 6-2 and we were cruising somewhat. Dan started out on pitch, to be replaced by H who could no longer continue due to his ankle. H made an immediate impact to, misjudging a long range shot which flew straight past him. The game became a bit tense, with Perry Barcelona struggling to force the play and our slick passing moves becoming less and less successful. However, it did not take long for us to regain our superiority, when Dan latched onto a through ball and finished from just outside the penalty area, to angry claims from the opposition. I was watching though and can confirm that it was definately outside the area when he hit it and a fair goal. Moments later, Pughie laid a through ball to Todd who had bombed forward from the back and he finished clinically. Another goal of the season contender followed, with a slick one touch passing move that saw every outfield player involved before Dan tapped it home. Pughie added to his goal tally with another smart effort before Todd played a sweet through ball to Tapi. One on one with the goalkeeper, he got the ball stuck between his feet and forced into the corner. However, with great vision he played the ball across the box back to Todd who was waiting unmarked and smashed it into the top corner. Dan completed both his hat-trick and the rout, when Todd dinked another through ball to him and he finished from close range.

All in all, a good game in which we performed fantastically. This was by far our best performance of the season, and if we play like this every week then we will be climbing up the table in no time.

Team: Todd (C) Az, Tapi, Pughie, Dave, H, Dan

Goals: Pughie (4) Dan (3) Todd (2) Az (1) Dave (1) H (1)