Dene Community School v Sandhill View
The first and highly anticipated match of the season took place at home with Sandhill View. The game was started with caution, both teams attacking and defending with Dene coming out on top. The game was taking some sort of shape after 15 minutes with the ball being played out wide by the industrious Kyle Bagnall in midfield supplying the lone striker Keiran Gething who went close on several occasions. After 3 corners off the trot Joe Bell who had stayed up front from defence smashed the ball into the roof of the net to see Dene 1-0 up. Some good work followed from Taylor who supplied Bagnall to smash home the 2nd and take Dene Comfortable home at half time.
The 2nd half started with a change Dene adopting a more attacking line up with Bell partnering Gething up front and Kirkbride sitting in defence. The move paid dividends with Gething lobbing the keeper for his 1st and our 3rd, this soon followed with him outpacing the defence and slotting past the keeper with ease. 4-0 up and Dene started to gain more momentum good work from both Ramshaw and Kidman linking well down the left causing more problems for the tiring Sandhill. Bell added his second after squandering many missed chances opting for power more than placement, he then set up Gething who had tortured the defence all game with a powerful display to take his hatrick and put Dene 6-0 up.
Sloppy work at the back by the keeper let Sandhill in for a chance to break the clean sheet 6-1 up The keeper Danny Carr to be fair had not much to do all game, due to the defensive work of Cory Fenwick and his twin Jordan breaking up play in the midfield. This was a great all round performance a result to hopefully build on for the coming games.
Man of the Match awarded by the Sandhill team Coach went to Keiran Gething.
