Mens 6th XI
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Sat 20 Nov 2021
Luton Town 4's
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Hertford Hockey Club
Mens 6th XI
M6 Match Report

M6 Match Report

David Harding21 Nov 2021 - 11:45
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9 goal thriller.

Fielding what I consider to be a strong M6 team we traveled to Luton to play their M4s, we knew from our friendly encounter a month or so ago it would be a close game.
From the start Luton pushed hard and some good movement from their midfield and forwards resulted in an early goal followed soon after by a second. Realising we needed to tighten up at the back we made a couple of changes which started to make a difference but not until we found ourselves 3 down after about 20 minutes. The changes allowed us to get on the ball more and put Luton under a bit of pressure and create a couple of chances prior to Jared scoring before halftime.
We made a slight positional change at half time and continued where we left off at the end of the first half culminating in a goal from Daryl to bring the score to 3-2, Luton then pushed hard and with some quick movement scored another 2 goals. At 5-2 we could have started to tire but the work rate from the midfield was impressive Daryl,Sean,Andy,James and Ed ran extremely hard and in what at times was a bit of a physical game, ment we were never really out of it and a super strike from the edge of the D from Graham pulled another one back.
As we entered the last 10 minutes or so we pushed up more despite this leaving us a little uncovered at the back and relying on Andy in goal to pull of a couple of good saves we didn’t concede again and Sean put away the 4th. In the dying minutes of the game we came very close to getting the equaliser.

Great performance and effort by all and a mention to Steve who played his first competitive game of hockey for a number of years, we hope to see you in many more, and to Daryl and Jared for stepping in at short notice.

Match details

Match date

Sat 20 Nov 2021

Kickoff

12:00

Meet time

11:30

Instructions

Challney Girls school LU4 9FJ

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