LEAGUE HOCKEY
PLASHET HOCKEY CLUB

Plashet 1 Vs East London 1



4 - 1

After much anticipation, the start of the 2008/09 season campaign had finally arrived, Plashet travelled to the Mile End Stadium to face East London 1’s, this was a tough match up against an organised unit.

With some new youngsters making their debut this season, Plashet had a slight shuffle around with their formation. Both sides were slow to start going, but it was Plashet who took the initiative after around 10 minutes into the game, a pattern began to emerge as they were beginning to take more control of the game. Immediately thereafter, Plashet opened their goal scoring account for the season through Sukhvinder Singh after a well worked short corner routine saw his shot rocket into the bottom right corner of the goal. Soon later Plashet were beginning to pass and move the ball around more comfortably and playing more attractive hockey, Inderjeet Singh was creating openings for himself time and time again with the aide of his talents, however his shooting was wayward as he was looking for the perfect goal targeting the roof of the net.  

Inevitably with the squandered chances, East London managed to pull a goal back as Plashet failed to clear an attack which found an unmarked EL attacker in the D with all the time in the world to rifle his shot passed the helpless Plashet shot stopper. Not long after though, Plashet upped their game with a barrage of shots on the EL goal, and took the lead once again through Sukvinder with another worked short corner routine.

To the second half, EL came out of the blocks faster as they mounted more pressure on the Plashet defenders; however they were unable to penetrate the Plashet goal further due to a combination of good defending and poor finishing. As the game continued it became more stretched and Plashet were able to attack the EL goal at will, with 10 minutes left of the game, Sandeep Singh showed a moment of brilliance as he peeled of his marker, he was given the ball by Mikey, as he ran into the D, he reversed flicked the ball passed the outward rushing keeper to make it 3 – 1. With the game now in its last stages, Mikey added to the score sheet with a superb solo effort in which he rounded 3 EL defenders and drilled the ball home passed the keeper to ensure a comfortable win. With many missed chances the score line could have been far superior but was not to be.