Herrons Hero's

With a strong performance last night and a fine show at training this morning the team went into tonight’s match in a confident mood. The team travelled to F.C. Zoetemeer and it would be fair to say that on arrival the boys were in shock and all of the facilities there. You could not see the furthest pitch from the clubhouse there was so many pitches at the complex. The facilities had three generation, 3 astroturf pitches and 4 grass pitches. Our game was on pitch 1 and it was evident from kick off that it was going to be another good night.
Brough and Smart worked up and down the right flank to great affect providing good possession and support throughout the game. Watson and Ferguson again dominated in the middle and were involved in every play. Thomson and Tinker much like their counterparts on the other wing worked very hard and could not be contained by the opposition.
At centre back positions MacDonald and Basford won ball and initiated every attack with good accurate passing.

Ansari, Farquharson and Day came on early to good affect and continued on from their performance of the previous night. Up front Cameron and Reid reeked havoc and the opposition had no answer to their subtle movement patterns. Dobbie remains untested yet but outstanding performances in training bode well for tougher games tomorrow at the tournament. The first half only saw 6 goals go in but the opposition keeper made some world class saves to keep the score down. In the second half goal after goal was rained in and allowed an opportunity to further implement techniques learned in training today.

During the second half a number of players were played out of position to give them experience of different roles and duties on the pitch. This worked to great affect and saw a barrage of goals going in. The game ended 17 - 0 but could have been a real cricket score! The lads kept their discipline and continued to play total football.
Ansari was a handful for the opposition and took his 2 goals well. M.O.M. was another hard decision but Ferguson for me was unstoppable and possibly scored the goal of the tour after a dazzling spell of football and a mazy run from the half way line beating 3 players and curling the ball into the corner of the goal which the keeper had no chance of reaching.

Scorers tonight were: Watson x 3, Thomson x 1, Tinker x 1, Day x 2, Cameron x 1, Basford x 1, Ansari x 2, Ferguson x 2, Reid x 3 and 1 x own goal

Man of the match - Ryan Ferguson

Most improved player Anmar Al-Ansari