A great win last week against the league leaders was in the past, today we faced bottom of the league Old Williamsonians.
An interesting affair it would turn out to be! Ville took the lead after 5 minutes from a short corner, Perks slotting home from the top of the D - 1-0 Ville.
10 minutes later Ville won their second penalty corner of the afternoon. Same move, same result, Perks made it 2-0.
A few minutes later after a clear foul on JB, their umpire awarded it the other way. The skipper went to have a chat with their umpire and was shown his first card of the afternoon for 'swearing at the umpire' which incensed him even more as he hadn't done so.
Half time arrived and Ville were 2 up. Not quite the same level of hockey that we had played last week against the league leaders but a lead nonetheless. Discipline would be key as we knew the opposition umpires were going to be very happy to dish out more cards.
Old Willy's did manage to score one goal at the back post to claw it back to 2-1.
Ville were down to 9 for a short period after the skipper picked up his 2nd card of the game and Westie soon followed.
Once we were back to our full compliment we managed to put the game to bed when Seb, who clearly saw the run of Simon 😀 at the far post, slotted across the face of goal and Simon duly did the rest with a reverse stick shot past the keeper. 3-1.
Perks and Simon also found themselves being shown cards before the end of the game.
We hung on and ran out 3-1 winners.
A game that had it all and summed up below:
#UptheVille
MOTM - Tom Cawdron - first game of the season and he was a rock at the back. Great in the tackle, superb distribution and dealt with every aerial they threw for the whole game.
DOD - Captain JB. For someone who is usually the calmest player on the pitch, he found himself carded, not once but twice today.
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