WOMENS 3RD XI - 09/03/2024 VS BROADLAND 1 (A) TEAM: Womens 3rd XI DATE: 09/03/2024 FIXTURE: Womens 3rd XI VS 09/03/2024 HEADLINE: City looking for a win LEAGUE: EAST DIVISION 2 NORTH EAST VENUE: TRF RESULT: Broadland 3 - 2 City REPORT: W3s vs. Broadland 1s: Saturday rolled around again and the *phenomenal* women’s 3s came together to take on Broadland 1s, looking to enact revenge following a 3-1 loss in November. City started strong with good passing and ball pace, and were able to swiftly win some short corners. With a confident start and great teamwork, Liv was able to score from a deflection in a short corner, making the score 1-0 to city. The rest of the first half was hard fought, and city’s defence were amazing at keeping Broadland at bay. Some beautiful saves from Jess and strong balls out from Kim, Longy, and Jenny meant that city finished the half in the lead. City were ready and raring to start the second half and desperate to score more goals to secure a win. Skilful passing between the midfield whilst feeding wide showed Broadland that city were not to be messed with today. Despite some lovely play, some unfortunate short corners for Broadland saw a 1-0 lead turn into city tailing behind at 3-1 with 10 minutes left. Regardless of their strong lead, Broadland demonstrated some baffling behaviour, most notably by picking up the ball and walking away with it when it was Evie’s free hit. City stayed cool, calm and collected in the face of this and managed to secure more short corners. A straight strike by Helen saw a save by the keeper, which Rachael managed to pick up and reverse into the goal, making the score 3-2. The final whistle blew soon after this, with the score ending at 3-2 to Broadland. City fought well and didn’t make it easy for Broadland, and will be looking for a win next time.
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MENS 1ST XI - 10/03/2024 VS UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM 2 (H) TEAM: Mens 1st XI DATE: 10/03/2024 FIXTURE: Mens 1st XI VS 10/03/2024 HEADLINE: Norwich City Mens 1s beat top of the table LEAGUE: CONFERENCE MIDLANDS VENUE: TRF RESULT: 4-1 win REPORT: We knew our university guests would be in good spirits having beaten their first team on the Wednesday this week and were heading to a cup final. Thankfully we were well up for the game having been bested the previous 3 meetings and began fast and Notts didn't touch the ball for the first 3 minutes, this possession culminated in Norwich city winning a penalty corner which was saved by the UoN goalkeeper. Nottingham had their first touch of the ball and first chance to impress on the game and turned it over almost instantaneously and a quick ball in from Chris Wardale led to Ben chapman shot and the rebound fell to an arriving Gabriel Marchant for his debut national league goal. Nottingham began to maintain some possession of their own and threaten as Alastair Cooke made a close range save and they won a pair of penalty corners that were put wide and saved by #1 runner Elliot Hibell. Shortly into quarter 2 Max Wilson found himself in space done the left flank and reversed across the face of goal to Elliot Hibell who planted the ball into the corner to double the Norwich lead before half time. HT: 2-0. The second half started with the same end to end intensity of the first both sides pushing to stay in or kill the game, respectively. But it was Nottingham that got first blood with a well won and well worked routine from their 4th penalty corner of the game ending in a deflection over Alastair cookes head bringing the scoreline to 2-1. Max Wilson then immediately short up the left hand side, beating 3 defenders as he went and played a ball inside to Harry Gill, who proceeded to beat 2 more and let loose a forehand hit form the top of the D into the bottom left corner to restore the 2 goal lead for Norwich. Q3 ended 3-1. Cam Cooke finished the job in the middle of the 4th quarter when he was unmarked at the P Spot and a ball across found him for a cool hit home as the keeper struggled to cover the ground from front post to back post. 4-1 final score. Superb display from the team, complete performance with minimal for keeper Alastair cooke to do, no cards for city and clinical when going forward.
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