Third Team Details

Valence were confident and psyched to get a win out of this match, after the excellent performance from last week against Holcombe.

Bleader and Alex McCrea had decided to **** off to France to go skiing or something, but Valence started off well with a darting run down the right wing by Stille, then a good cross was converted by Bert. It was a bit far out for Bert, so everyone was a bit surprised to go up 1-0. Sevenoaks put some pressure on our D and managed to get a very scrambled equaliser, which Gobbo was adamant that is should had been disallowed.

Chris Stille worked extremely hard all game, and had many penetrating runs down the right wing; one after 25 minutes ended up in a scramble at about 12 feet to finally end in a goal supposedly scored by Ed Lewell. Valence went into half time 2-1 up, and looking the better side so Gobbo had another shouting match with himself for the team talk.

Valence came out a lot more confident and energetic and the difference in effort across the team was evident, much more possession and pressure and when we won a short corner, it was calmly executed by Clarkey gaining his first of the match. 3-1 up and Sutton didn’t let up on the pressure forcing Sevenoaks to panic on many of their own 16’s. Valence kept the pressure up and some great defending by Ife, Hoff and Josh kept the team on the attack with some quick and effective passing. Hoff was having a great game and some crucial tackles kept Valence in the game.

A change to the formation meant that Hoff, Callum and Stille had some great movements down the right usually ending in another cross from Chris. A break meant that Mr. Stille could show off his running skills again and gaining himself another of his 6 assists of the day, this one was Bert’s second, a shot from about 6 cm out. 4-1 up.

As always Gobbo gave all the mouth with no trousers and the umpires, especially Dickie were starting to get slightly annoyed with him , but surprisingly he managed to walk away from this match without a card at all. To give credit, Ife-y played extremely well (except for some silly mistakes leaving Hoff and Josh with about 5 players to deal with), but with composure and skills we kept them out.

I hate having to talk about Chris so much, but Chris made another run down the right pulling the ball back to Clarkey on the P-spot to sweetly strike home to make the score line 5-1. Ben Grabham, Ed Lewell and Will Fuller had a very good game keeping the structure in the middle and some runs from Will down the left usually ended up in a short corner or free hit. About 10 mins from the end, James had a close strike but put it a whisker wide, Valence kept the pressure up and the whole team had good passing and movement.

Close to the end, Hoff was having a nice dribble down the right, and a call came saying “man on” so for some reason, Hoff decided to bend over, we don’t know what he was looking for there, and then proceeded to fall over with no elegance at all. He fell like a sack of ****.

The last goal of the match came from Mr. Bert Bouwens and what a goal it was, the cross came in and Bert only needed one reverse touch with his wonder stick, Prudence, and placed the ball through the approaching goalies legs, and then came a slightly over dramatic celebration, with a lot of running around the edge of the pitch, making the final score line 6-1 to a deserved Valence performance.

Overall, Valence played extremely well and to get a good result like that puts confidence into the team for out tussle against Maidstone next week, WELL DONE TEAM!!!