Brill United 10 - Tring Tornadoes 3

An outstanding display of swift passing and intelligent football from the boys today. It was no coincidence we found ourselves 10-0 up with 10 minutes of the game left - our decision making, confidence playing out from the back, hitting the channels, and clinical crosses and finishing put the opposition to bed by half time. I think all of our supporters there would agree it was quite possibly the best all round display from us all season. Four goals from Freddie ‘Bellingham’ Glover were well deserved, it was an imperious display from the skipper today who was everywhere. Two goals from Ben, and one each for Gabe, Harry, plus two of our defenders getting on the score sheet, Theo and Sam, rounded off a wonderful morning.

Every single one of our boys played their part today, their spirit and togetherness was evident to all watching. Theo was MOM for his calmness and distribution from the back under pressure, plus multiple epic tackles snuffing out their attacks. It’s an absolute pleasure for the coaches to be with these boys every week. Forza Brill 🤍🖤

Brill United 5 - Crendon Corinthians 3 (H/T 4-0)

In front of our biggest crowd of the season, the U12’s positively raced out of the blocks against Crendon. This is what we talked about before the game and it was brilliant to see it come to fruition. Within a couple of minutes Gabe pounced after some miscommunication between their defender and keeper, skipping in to smash in our first goal. Shortly afterwards Gabe was through again on the right and hit a powerful shot to the near post that their keeper couldn’t stop. 2-0. After some great work in midfield by Jacob and Freddie, Gabe was put through once again, this time choosing to shoot from a bit further out, the ball sailing over the keeper and in to the back of the net. 3-0 and some excellent football being played by the whole team. On fire were the words used on the whatsapp group at the time, and they could not have been more apt. Soon after, Sid managed to get around the defender and poked the ball past the onrushing keeper to make it 4-0 before the travelling support had even finished their coffee. The first half ended 4-0 to Brill, which was no more than they deserved after an imposing 30 minutes and some fine football.

In the second half we took our foot off the gas somewhat and conceded an early goal to make it 4-1. Not to be deterred, the black and whites very soon afterwards raced down the field in a flowing move, Gabe playing a cross field ball to Harry in space down left who made no mistake with a fine finish. 5-1 to Brill.

More chances came and went for us but we couldn’t quite manage another goal, Ben unlucky not to notch his fifth goal of the season. Crendon were sharp in their pressing and added two quick fire goals of their own to make 5-3 to Brill. Henry pulled off a couple of great saves late on in the game to keep our two goal margin and that’s the way it finished. A good game played in good spirits, and some true resilience showed in the second half by the whole team, in particular our defenders. Well done all. Man of the match went to Jacob.