U15 Girls lose to Cambridge City
Lessons learned
Harvesters U15 Girls were in division one league action at home to new comers Cambridge City who had impressively won all pre-season preliminarily matches.
The girls were 3-0 down after 12 minutes due to a lack of challenges before the shots were taken. On 28 minutes Harvesters struck back when Ida Sondergaard launched a long throw for Yasmin Howgego to run onto before whipping in a cross to the waiting Tatyana Barton on the edge of the penalty area who turned and struck the ball beyond the diving keeper to make it 3-1.
It was 4-1 at half time as Cambridge added another on on the break.
The second half saw Cambridge score goals at regular intervals and by 53 minutes it was 9-1. On 64 minutes a harsh penalty awarded against Harvesters made it 10-1.
On 67 minutes pressure from Tatyana Barton in the Cambridge penalty area saw the ball fall to Hollie Thornton to tap home to make to 10-2. Unfortunately it was 11-2 straight from kick off.
Harvesters scored the final goal of the match with a well worked move with Rheilly Evans playing the ball to the right wing for Hollie Thornton to beat the defender and cross to Tatyana Barton to score.
A tough match but the girls gave it their all until the final whistle.