Lions in the Community

The travelling Lions made the long Journey to London to Face AFC Wimbledon Centre of Excellence this evening, Firstly I would like to thank AFC Wimbledon for hosting us and secondly all of are supporters and sponsors who made the trip.

The Lions started the game positively and with a confident first quarter complete the scoreline was 0-0, on another day we could of gone a couple of goals ahead,with a number of our attempts at goal either being high or wide.

The second quarter gave us a little more to cheer about, as our high pressure game Led to Brandon Pude intercepting an AFC pass and firing the ball from twenty yards over the goalkeeper. Our second arrived shortly after when Connor Mumford delivered a low cross from the right Straight into the path of Cameron Styles-Nicel who finished tidily inside the area. Mumford after assisting the second then became goalscorer himself, with a great run and cutting inside the AFC full back and smashing an unstoppable strike across goal into the side netting to make it three..

The third quarter, with only half of the game played the lions became complacent with their three goal advantage and with AFC reverting to a more attacking formation and there slick, fast passing gameplay made it a tough period for us as Gabriel Williams in Goal was forced to make a couple of saves and the goal frame some how denying AFC a goal. Nathan Lunness, George Higgins, Harvey Richardson and Dan Burdock stayed compact and made a number of challenges and interceptions to ensure we didn't concede.

After the interval where the Lions where warned not to throw away all their hard work from the first two periods, the boys responded brilliantly With the ever-tricky Jayden Englefield scoring at the back post to make it four and to cap an outstanding performance Olly cox whipped in a devil of a corner for Nathan Lunness to finish and make the scoreline LITC 5-0 AFC.

Thank you too all involved, hope you enjoyed the game, keep up the hard work Lions and our next fixture will be in the new year.