L1s travelled to a more local game in Leighton buzzard this week, hoping to come away with 3 points after last week’s defeat!

The game started quickly, Leighton knew to use their quick runners as the ball speed on the vandyke beach was slow and our defenders were forced to switch on early. Leighton set themselves up for some early 2v1 play in our D, and after a first save from Jade worked their way around to make it 1-0 to the home team.
As per our usual habits it took some early pressure for the ladies to switch on, and we started to make our way up the pitch and gaining some strong advantages in the D. We gained a positive short corner outcome and Easty took it confidently, banging the ball into the left post to make the score line level before half time.

At half time heads were kept high and attitudes were shuffled to aim at positivity.

Both teams came out of the gate strong, with some 50/50 play throughout, our defence held strong and their runners were held back by the defenders. Steph took the ball at the top of our D and shot it down the pitch to Sophie, who buried the ball into the left of the goal from across the D.
The 2-1 advantage wasn’t held for long, at a short corner Leighton managed to scramble the ball over our defensive stick to level the game!
Not wanting to come away with the draw, and knowing we deserved more, Wanderers worked tirelessly up and down the wings, getting themselves into the oppositions D but not quite coming away with anything, until our Ellie out paced the Buzzard midfield and dancing around their defence, then calmly passing the ball onto Sophie at the P spot who with great composure took a touch and cleanly popped the ball into the goal, giving the wanderers a tight 3-2 win!
The team will take the positives for the match plus the 3 points a prepare for the visit of Hawks on Saturday.

MOM – Olivia Mason for her distribution and work in the midfield.