Under 14s Champions League – Another great week of highly competitive futsal – Credit to players and coaches

Catenaccio tap in vs. Grimsby United

Caistor Tigers 5 – Seven Seas 10

Score line tells its own story, Caistor need a defensive plan or two to cut down the opposition scoring ratio.  Team knows it will score goals; defence needs play its part by defending as a group of 4 rather than 4 individuals.  That can be pressing high/low/man for man/zonal or any other choice; just needs synchronising to suit players on court at any one time.

Second week of play for Seven Seas and they looked a far better team than week one, and that team wasn’t bad.  Their presence has made league tougher for everyone.

Match 4/5

Wybers juniors 5 – Grimsby Carpet Warehouse (sm) 4

GCW are knocking on the door to being the first team to beat Wybers in a very very long time.

High quality passing from both teams; more impressive as it was against defences that never gave an inch.

The flow of goals tells its own storyline: Wybers 1-0; 1-1; 2-1; 2-2; 3-2; 3-3; 4-3; 5-3; 5-4.

Match 5/5

Synerjy 4 – Discoveries Sporting 13

Tough game to report; first it has to be recorded Synerjy regular keeper was unavailable and his stand-in was clearly not comfortable in goal.  Often very good outfielders are okay in goal; this was not one of those cases.  Worryingly for Synerjy Sporting hit 4 within the opening few minutes; at which point Synerjy had a purple patch closing the score to 4-5; at which point the recovery stumbled.

Half time was 4-9; I don’t get many 13 goal first halves to report, even at futsal.

Scoring slowed second period, with Sporting adding 4 more to their tally.

Sporting domination was not just because Synerjy struggled without a regular keeper; Sporting delivered, for me, their best team performance to date.

Match 3.5/5

Catenaccio 5 – Grimsby United 5

Catenaccio are hampered every week by being the only u13 team in an u14 competition; that said every week they deliver phases of passing that exceed their age.  This week was no exception as they twice opened up the United team to lead 2-0.  United have speed and strength in their team; a combination Cats’ struggled to handle; United pulled back to 2-2 only for Cats’ to recover the lead at half time.

Second half was breathless as both teams got ‘at each other’.  3-3; 4-3; 4-4; 5-4 – 5-5.

From start to finish a great game of futsal that was a credit to the managers and players.

Match: 5/5

P W D L FOR AGA’ GD Form
Wybers Juniors mc 3 3 0 0 19 8 11 9 WWW
Seven Seas ca 2 2 0 0 16 5 11 6 WW
Grimsby Carpet Warehouse sm 3 2 0 1 16 10 6 6 LWW
Discoveries Sporting db 3 1 1 1 20 12 8 4 WLD
Grimsby Carpet Warehouse dl 3 1 1 1 10 14 -4 4 LWD
Grimsby United pp 2 0 1 1 9 11 -2 1 DL
Catenaccio JFC U12 am 2 0 1 1 5 11 -6 1 DL
Caistor Tennyson Tigers FC kf 2 0 0 2 8 15 -7 0 LL
Synerjy Futsal gc 2 0 0 2 5 22 -17 0 LL