Birkdale D v Burscough
February 18th, 2009 by NoelWarham| Date: | Sunday 15th February 2009 |
| Location: | Carr Lane, Birkdale |
| Result: | Birkdale D (2) Burscough (1) |
A great day for football as the Diamonds played Burscough .After our recent up and down performances we didn’t no which team would turn up. With Sykes missing in defence the Diamonds made a change with Core stepping into defence.
From the start the Diamonds were competing for every ball not giving Burscough time on the ball.The ball was mostly in the centre or the park but when Burscough did come forward Core, Mentha and Price dealt with it.
Then on around 15 minutes the Diamonds got a corner it was put in the box by Molyneux with inch perfect precision. The ball hit a Burscough player and went in to make it 1-0 to the Diamonds.
However, Burscough got their goal two minutes later when a one-off error by our defence let them have a shot on our goal. It was saved by Harrison, but she couldn’t hold onto it. Mentha cleared the ball but it fell to a Burscough player who from 20 yards blasted the ball into the bottom corner giving Harrison no chance in goal.
The second half was as the first until Elliott took two players on and from the half way line hit the ball towards the goal up high and over the stranded keeper 2-1 the diamonds. Back came Burscough again who in the last five minutes hit the bar and made Harrison make two fantastic saves.
A fantastic 2-1 win for the girls. Well done everyone, I hope you’re all very proud of yourselves.
