Birkdale United AFC

Birkdale won the Under 11′s Trisconi cup against Burscough at Burscoughs ground. It was a great all round performance with Birkdale fully deserving the victory.

 In the first half the lads started well, if only for the Burscough keeper it could have been more. They missed four 1 on 1s in the first half before they went ahead with an excellent worked goal. Bainbridge won the ball in midfield and he passed the ball to his midfield partner Instone, who passed an excellent through ball to Rimmer who outpaced the defence and coolly finished. The boys battled well against a very strong and well organised Burscough team. At half-time, it was 1-0 to Birkdale.

In the second half we started off brightly and were right at Burscough from the start. Conway, Instone, Bainbridge and McCarthy all working tirelessly to win the ball back for Birkdale. In defence Sheen and Gelling were excellent up against two very good and powerful forwards who never had a sniff  of goal all night.

We always looked dangerous when attacking with Rimmer and Jackson causing the Burscough defence all sorts of problems with their quick feet and excellent skills.

However just as we were on the attack we lost the ball and Burscough broke away and although Sheen blocked the initial shot, the rebound fell to the Burscough winger who crossed for the forward to head home.

It looked like it was going to be one of those games but to Birkdale’s credit, they rallied round each other and got their heads straight back up and went ahead soon after with a finish from McCarthy after the keeper had made a save from Jackson.

Jackson and Rimmer were causing all sorts of problems for the Burscough defence and after some great work from the two, Rimmer added his second.

We made four changes with Regan replacing McCarth, Gabrielle replacing Conway, Howard replacing Instone and Wright replacing Jackson. Still Birkdale pressed and nearly got a fourth when Howard set up Regan only for thr keeper to save at his near post.

Burscough kept battling away but the defence of Birkdale was having an excellent night and were very resilient. If and when they got through stand in keeper Young cleared everything up.

Then with five minutes to go the game was finished of with a through ball from Gabrielle to Wright who beat the offside trap with only the keeper to beat he raced through only for him to allow Rimmer along side him to finish well and complete his hat-trick.

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