It was a passionate and strong performance from Bedfont and one which would have helped build confidence before next weeks game,despite finishing the game in a draw.
As with the Chesham game, Jason started with an unfamiliar line up featuring
P Horsnell in goal, a back four consisting of Amy Bat, Danielle M, Katrice L, Emma T
The midfield four consisting of Sapphire T, Georgia M, and Abriza B and Rachel K.
and starting up front Amy O and Amy Bar.
The opening minutes were littered by errors by Whetstone and Bedfont looked by far the better team.
Bedfont’s passing was crisp and quick and with Whetstone giving possession away on too many occasions, their poor start was punished after just 4 minutes, with a great manouvered goal with Sapphire T slotting a great pass through for Amy O to comfortably put the ball in the corner of the net to make it 1-0 .
The early goal did little to change the play of Bedfont against a very well organised back four commanded by Danielle and Katrice winning important tackles. On a few occasions Whetstone broke through the Bedfont defence but in form goalkeeper Paige coming off her line to make some great 1v1 saves.
The midfield looked strong led by Georgia M winning a lot of important tackles , Sapphire T going on some great solo runs and some great efforts on goal, Rachel K hard work to win the ball back and Abriza showing great awareness with her quality of passing.
Half time
Bedfont had made one tactical change at half time swapping Amy Bar and Danielle M positions.
The second half got under way as we left off with Bedfont dominating but against the run of play Whetstone had a great passage of play and to be fair a great finish lobbing the ball into the top corner of the goal on 50 mins to make it 1-1.
This had put Bedfont on the back foot and was now under pressure with Whetstone pushing for a second.
Bedfonts back four kept them in the game with some great tackles from Amy Bar and some great clearances from Amy Bat, Katrice and Emma T and Paige pulling off some great saves.
The game was getting a bit feisty with tackles flying in from both sides as the game was coming to a end.
Final score Bedfont Sports 1-1 Whetstone Wanderers