Strong performance from the 2s, but still a cup exit
Following the disaster that was the away day to Liverpool, the 2s were looking for a performance they could be proud of against Edge Hill, one that would set them up well for the rest of the season. Edge Hill, having been promoted from the 2s league last year and recording 2-0 and 3-0 wins over them along the way, were expected to be a tough opposition and so a win was not a necessary result for the 2s to prove they had stepped up since the previous week.
Naturally, the warm-up took place in the car park. Chris and Nick, having scouted Edge Hill in the previous week when they played our 1s (4-2 to Lancaster, get fucked), informed the team that their defender liked to pass it to their player with mad skills, and that they also had a guy who held his stick funny. The first five minutes were defined by Edge Hill pressure, and this resulted in a quick goal for them, as Sam tried to take an aerial out of the sky and unfortunately miss, created an overload in defence, with the spare Edge Hill player tapping the ball back post from a cross. One good note though is that the aerial was a result of the press stopping passes into the middle.
Edge Hill continued this pressure and Lancaster were often down a man in defence. However due to Edge Hill overloaded their attack, they were left lacking players in defence, which resulted in Lancaster attacks looking very dangerous. Most of the play was seen in Lancaster’s half and eventually Edge Hill won a series of shorts. Edge Hill had quite the opportunity here as their drag-flicker actually decided to turn up. The first short was taken and then retaken because an Edge Hill player ran too early, and then the next one was drag-flicked at Ander’s stomach, but he’s got huge core strength and so felt nothing. Legend. Then another short was flicked wide, and Anders bruised his leg running into the opposition drag flicker. Legend. Eventually, Edge Hill sorted themselves out and scored a short corner. 2-0 to them.
They may have been 2-0 down, but Lancaster started to dominate the midfield. Luke, Chags (he just wanted it more) and Paddy were often found free in the centre and from this, attacks could be created. I am now going to spend the rest of the paragraph talking about Chags. What a man. He straight up dominated his opposition player (Will if you’re reading this, unlucky mate, happens to the best of us). Chags ran rings round him, and when the Edge Hill player did have the ball, he could not get past him. Chags was both an immovable object, and an unstoppable force at the same time, a man truly worthy to live at flat 2, 5 Queen Street, Lancaster.
The details are a bit hazy for the rest of the of the half, but it ended with Lancaster getting a goal, probably from Jamie, and Edge Hill getting another as well, putting the score at 1-3. I think the short may have been their third goal and they scored their second in a similar fashion to their first. Throughout the first half, Stotty also did bits, running through players like they were nothing, and managing to get back in time to defend when play broke down. Edge Hill also tried to confuse Lancaster by having a player mark Anders who looked more like Anders than Anders looked like Anders. But Anders was having none of it.
The team talk was in bulk made up of Nick’s plan to limit Edge Hill’s overload up front: Anders would go in front of the defensive line and place himself between the man with the ball and the goal, whilst the back three man marked. This was risky as Anders generally has no positional awareness when not straight up man-marking. Edge Hill once again opened the scoring, in a similar fashion to two of their other goals. However, after this it was all Lancaster and the comeback was on. The domination in midfield continued with Nelson, Chags, Luke and Paddy being free basically all the time. Sam and James made some nice runs down the right to open up the pitch further. The Lancaster domination brought about frustration from Edge Hill, who at one point found themselves down to 9 men.
Lancaster were constantly knocking on the door, and scored two goals, one at least from Jamie, and the other from someone else. I think. What is certain is that Baguetti did not score, missing an absolute sitter in front of the goal. With the press doing work and Anders picking up loose balls (shoutout to Stotty who also stepped into the sweeping role when Anders had no idea what was going on) Edge Hill could hardly put pressure on Tonsils in goal.
Unfortunately, no more goals were scored, ending 4-3 to Edge Hill. Giving the competency of their opposition, Lancaster however could feel that they had made large steps in both play and attitude, putting themselves in a good place to mount a promotion challenge in the league. Oh, and Chairman Crash turned up at the end, and Chips’ girlfriend made some pizza roles for the boys.
Man of the Match: Anders/Jamie
Dick of the Day: Baguetti for accuracy infront of goal
Match report by Baguetti and Anders
Following the disaster that was the away day to Liverpool, the 2s were looking for a performance they could be proud of against Edge Hill, one that would set them up well for the rest of the season. Edge Hill, having been promoted from the 2s league last year and recording 2-0 and 3-0 wins over them along the way, were expected to be a tough opposition and so a win was not a necessary result for the 2s to prove they had stepped up since the previous week.
Naturally, the warm-up took place in the car park. Chris and Nick, having scouted Edge Hill in the previous week when they played our 1s (4-2 to Lancaster, get fucked), informed the team that their defender liked to pass it to their player with mad skills, and that they also had a guy who held his stick funny. The first five minutes were defined by Edge Hill pressure, and this resulted in a quick goal for them, as Sam tried to take an aerial out of the sky and unfortunately miss, created an overload in defence, with the spare Edge Hill player tapping the ball back post from a cross. One good note though is that the aerial was a result of the press stopping passes into the middle.
Edge Hill continued this pressure and Lancaster were often down a man in defence. However due to Edge Hill overloaded their attack, they were left lacking players in defence, which resulted in Lancaster attacks looking very dangerous. Most of the play was seen in Lancaster’s half and eventually Edge Hill won a series of shorts. Edge Hill had quite the opportunity here as their drag-flicker actually decided to turn up. The first short was taken and then retaken because an Edge Hill player ran too early, and then the next one was drag-flicked at Ander’s stomach, but he’s got huge core strength and so felt nothing. Legend. Then another short was flicked wide, and Anders bruised his leg running into the opposition drag flicker. Legend. Eventually, Edge Hill sorted themselves out and scored a short corner. 2-0 to them.
They may have been 2-0 down, but Lancaster started to dominate the midfield. Luke, Chags (he just wanted it more) and Paddy were often found free in the centre and from this, attacks could be created. I am now going to spend the rest of the paragraph talking about Chags. What a man. He straight up dominated his opposition player (Will if you’re reading this, unlucky mate, happens to the best of us). Chags ran rings round him, and when the Edge Hill player did have the ball, he could not get past him. Chags was both an immovable object, and an unstoppable force at the same time, a man truly worthy to live at flat 2, 5 Queen Street, Lancaster.
The details are a bit hazy for the rest of the of the half, but it ended with Lancaster getting a goal, probably from Jamie, and Edge Hill getting another as well, putting the score at 1-3. I think the short may have been their third goal and they scored their second in a similar fashion to their first. Throughout the first half, Stotty also did bits, running through players like they were nothing, and managing to get back in time to defend when play broke down. Edge Hill also tried to confuse Lancaster by having a player mark Anders who looked more like Anders than Anders looked like Anders. But Anders was having none of it.
The team talk was in bulk made up of Nick’s plan to limit Edge Hill’s overload up front: Anders would go in front of the defensive line and place himself between the man with the ball and the goal, whilst the back three man marked. This was risky as Anders generally has no positional awareness when not straight up man-marking. Edge Hill once again opened the scoring, in a similar fashion to two of their other goals. However, after this it was all Lancaster and the comeback was on. The domination in midfield continued with Nelson, Chags, Luke and Paddy being free basically all the time. Sam and James made some nice runs down the right to open up the pitch further. The Lancaster domination brought about frustration from Edge Hill, who at one point found themselves down to 9 men.
Lancaster were constantly knocking on the door, and scored two goals, one at least from Jamie, and the other from someone else. I think. What is certain is that Baguetti did not score, missing an absolute sitter in front of the goal. With the press doing work and Anders picking up loose balls (shoutout to Stotty who also stepped into the sweeping role when Anders had no idea what was going on) Edge Hill could hardly put pressure on Tonsils in goal.
Unfortunately, no more goals were scored, ending 4-3 to Edge Hill. Giving the competency of their opposition, Lancaster however could feel that they had made large steps in both play and attitude, putting themselves in a good place to mount a promotion challenge in the league. Oh, and Chairman Crash turned up at the end, and Chips’ girlfriend made some pizza roles for the boys.
Man of the Match: Anders/Jamie
Dick of the Day: Baguetti for accuracy infront of goal
Match report by Baguetti and Anders