Whyteleafe 1 Tulse Hill 2 (AET)
Leafe crashed out of the cup after a plucky performance against the runaway Division B leaders.
Jaden was out with man flu, Riley, who had been off school most of the week dropped out of the warm up feeling ill. Luckily, Ben Brant had just finished his weetabix and managed to put in his first appearance of the season.
Tulse Hill started strongly and put the leafe defence under pressure. Fisayo the rock and twinkle toes Docherty held firm with Fingers Legg dominanting his box as always.
Ben Johnson competed well at centre mid and Josh was lively upfront. Adam and Max tracked back well and joined the attacks whenever they could. Chances were limited first half as their 6 foot centre back (wearing size 8 boots!!!) seemed to always get something in the way.
Nil nil at half time and Leafe had the slope in the second half. Leafe took the game to Tulse Hill and couldn’t find a way through. Then disaster, Tulse Hill broke quickly and scored against the run of play. Their supporters celebrated by running on the pitch, which was disappointing to see at a kids match.
Leafe showed great character and Ben Brant notched the equaliser to send the game into extra time.
Two minutes in and Tulse Hill scrambled the ball into the net. The boys battled their hearts out to the final whistle and deserved at least a chance of penalties, but it wasn’t to be this year.
All the boys were MOM this week.
Just to point out that that is our first defeat by mid December, so well done!!!
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