NETHERLEE VS ST JOSEPH

On a windy Thursday afternoon, Netherlee Primary football team faced a strong St Joseph’s team at Netherlee playing fields.

Netherlee started off to a strong start putting lots of pressure on the St Joseph’s defence. Inside the first 5 minutes, we slaughtered home a well worked goal that was nicely finished by Kerr Mackie. With the wind against us and our defence struggling by St Joseph`s high pressure, Ewan McCall pulled out a last minute save. However, soon we could not cope with St Joseph strikers and lost 3 goals in short succession. With half time looming, we were playing some good football but couldn’t take our chances.

In the second half, Shay O`Dowd made good decisions and changed our formation to 2-1-2-1. From there Netherlee began their comeback with Daniel Gear whipping in a great corner and nicely headed in by Kerr once again. The defence coped well and put in some strong tackles annoying the St Joseph`s attack.

Our attack once again put through some great balls and eventually got the third and last goal. We fought hard and brought it back to 3-3. Ewan McCall made some brave, strong and difficult saves to keep us in the game.

With 10 minutes to go, we once again lost 2 fatal goals which sadly lost us the game 5-3.

Written by Ewan McCall, Daniel Gear and Adam Diab