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Saturday 22nd January, 2022
Coton U12 vs PSG Blue, Away (League)

The first competitive game for 2022 saw our Girls hosted by the PSG Blue’s. The bobbly nature of the claggy pitch, combined with our tendency to slowly warm into the match, made for some tentative early touches and half-passes in the opening minutes, much to the dismay of Ellen marshalling from the back. Lia put herself forward as the first to grasp the game by the scruff of the neck with a superb attacking throw for an advancing Frosso, who cut the ball square and found Emilia on the charge. Bearing down on the PSG Keep, Emilia put in a well-weighted, composed strike into the bottom right to notch an early one up for Coton. This was the catalyst needed to drive Coton out of first gear and to start playing their brand of passing, attacking football. Juliet found herself released by Matilda down the left. A high cross from far out left lost the Keep in the sun and floated in to edge Coton further ahead. A moment later, Frosso battled out of the right corner to put Shannon on the spot. Shannon’s half volley took a fortuitous deflection and brought up Coton’s third. Finding their rhythm, Coton lifted the tempo. Ellen and Matilda began to assert themselves defensively, extinguishing PSG breakthroughs and turning the ball out and up the wings. Adding a layer of variety, both Julie and Frosso used Shannon in the centre mid to 1-2 themselves down the pitch, and then played in behind the PSG back line for Emilia, Julie and Frosso to run on to. This fluency was not only lovely to watch, but proved lethal. With no intention of being left out of the action, Ellen worked some magic down the middle with Shannon, and minutes later drove the ball forward to link with Emilia, threatening PSG on both occasions. Two more quick goals came for Shannon from some fast, rondo-esque, play in the PSG box to round out the half.

The second half saw Tesni assume the role of Sergeant Major, marshalling her troops, directing play and pouncing on any hint of a PSG attack. Bam and Georgie continued their epic battle at left back, both Girls relentless and hungry for the ball. Julie continued to rain down beautiful cross after cross, beating her mark at will and looking threatening each time she touched the ball. A 1-2 with Bam in the corner opened up enough space in the PSG defense to cross the ball into the danger zone. The ball, ricocheting out to the edge of the box was met with a belter of as strike, courtesy of Matilda, and found its home in the top right bin. What a shot! Ellen and Cha, playing in the central attacking midfield role, were a force of nature. Strong on the ball, driving forward into space, and ruthless on half-chances. Both Girls were incredibly unlucky not to feature on the scoreboard. Special mention must go to Lia for bringing such a complete performance, from attacking throws into the box, crosses off her left, off her right, off the inside of her foot and off the outside! Emilia, well-deserved, won the players’ player award for the grit, hunger, and tenacity she showed from opening to closing whistle. Thanks must go to the PSG Blues for their positive, never-say-die attitude, and for hosting us for such a lovely well-spirited battle.

Final whistle: 0-6
Players of the match: Emilia (Coton) & Mia (PSG)👍⚽️ ... See MoreSee Less

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Welcome Coton U8 Girls! We are very proud of all of you, playing your first ever game yesterday with lots of energy, skill and plenty of goals! We know you are going to be brilliant and it’s great to see you all having fun playing football at Coton 👍⚽️ ... See MoreSee Less

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Well done girls!

Go girls.

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Saturday 15th January, 2022
Coton U13 v Somersham Town, Home (League)

Early morning fog over the Coton Rec brough a sense of occasion to one of the most important matches this season for the U13s, giving them a real shot at topping the League table. Coton came out of the blocks strong, keen to apply early pressure. Exploiting the wings via Julie and Bryony, and applying pressure down the guts via Mads, Somersham found themselves on the back foot and camped deep in their own half. Shannon, acting as a central pivot, played the role of conductor, probing the Somersham goal by moving the ball left then right, then back again. The safe hands of the Somersham keep and the strength of the left back held Coton at bay until Shannon gambled with a no-look half volley to lob the keep, bringing up Coton’s first. Doubling down, in quick succession, Shannon struck again when a loose kick-out spilled off the side of the Keep’s foot, cementing the lead.

Lifted by a rousing half time pep talk, Somersham began the second half hungry to make amends to the scoreboard. Using their outstanding right wing, Maddy, they began to threaten Nat in goal, whipping in cross after cross and getting numbers forward. Tightening their belts, Elliyah and Annabel responded in spades, showing a real unity between themselves and a real cohesiveness with Nat in goal to shut down surging advances down the wing and breakthrough plays down the middle. An incisive run, ducking and diving, by Julie up the middle to beat the back three and put her 1 v 1 with the Keep signalled a turning point, encouraging Coton to turn up the tempo, swinging the game back in Coton’s favour. Lilia, surging down the right found Maria on the end of a cross with a shot that sailed just wide. Margarita, rolling up her sleeves, put in a deft 1-2 with Julie to expose the goal. Annie, typical to form, was the relentless engine in the mid, and the Emma/Lilia combination started to become lethal down the right. Pushed wide by Anabel, the ever-hungry Somersham striker put a speculative shot on target from an impossible angle. An awkward bounce and a last-minute deflection squeezed the ball past Nat to narrow the gap to 1. Hettie and Danielle responded, snuffing out attack after attack, and Madds and Bryony brought an element of Futsal to the match with some ankle-defying turns on the ball to switch momentum and apply pressure. Coton, keen to involve management in the match, lodged the ball high in a tree overshadowing the pitch, giving the coaches a chance to show their netball prowess.. much to the spectators amusement. This was immediately followed by Coton’s Guinness Record attempt of the highest number of successive corners, with no less than 12 in a row! The final whistle brought to an end a real team effort, some superb encouragement from the bench, and some really positive play out on the pitch – a real top of the table result. Well played Girls!⚽️👍 ... See MoreSee Less

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Saturday 8th January, 2022
Coton U12 v Coton U13, Home (Friendly)

Fresh back from a Christmas and New Year’s break, a rain soaked Coton Rec was the venue for an all-Coton affair between our U12’s and the U13s. Both teams have only dropped one game in their respective seasons, and both were up for the battle with some good natured, pre-match banter. Starting on the front foot and strong, our U12s quickly fell into our favoured style of passing football. Knowing that the U13s would be stronger and faster, our game plan was to let the ball do the work. Some early forays up the pitch via Shannon and Frosso in the middle, and up the wings with the Emilia/India and Bam/Julie pairings, gave us early attacking opportunities deep into the U13s danger zone, only to be denied time and time again by the ever-reliable Nat in goal. Just as the pendulum started to swing in the U13s favour, with Mads and Annie scything down the middle, Captain fantastic, Ellen, stepped forward from her well marshalled backline and put in a 40-yard shot that sailed over all 20 players to find the back of the net. A classic Ellen goal. Julie, having a strong game and a great battle with Anaïs, jumped on the end of a 1-2 with Emily to belt one into the back of the net, giving our U12s a buffer.

Undeterred, the U13s switched the momentum of the game for a second time, forcing our U12s back deep into our own half. The pressure paid off and Emma struck with a well-battled goal to bring the U13s within one. As the game wore on, the battle for the midfield moved from a, sometimes scrappy, but even arm wrestle, towards our U12’s favour. India and Emilia ever impactful, Lia’s arsenal of throws, Matilda and Ellen shutting down the U13 attacks, Katty distributing and Ami causing mayhem for the U13 defense up the other end of the pitch marked a whole team effort. Nat’s superb goal keeping, and threatening long range clearances kept our U12’s honest, having to track back with speed or risk being exposed at the back. Bam, spectacular in linking with Julie early on, became the ‘neutraliser’ of Nat’s huge boot as she darted to meet and control the bombs as they dropped. Like a Labrador hunting a ham sandwich, Shannon’s eternal hunger for the ball paid off as she pounced on a kick-out and finished off a 1 v 1 with Nat, nailing an off-balance, millimetre-perfect shot that ricocheted in, off the post, to end the match. Despite the conditions, the match proved a great opportunity, with a wonderful opposition, to blow of those Christmas cobwebs in preparation for the restart of the League next weekend. Well played Coton.. and Coton J👍⚽️ ... See MoreSee Less

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Saturday 18th December
Coton U12 v Stanground Sports U12, Home (League)

In our last run out for 2021 before the Christmas break, our Girls welcomed the newly donned, Stanground Sports Youth team to the Rec. Last time the teams met was a Cup match in which Stanground (then called Peterborough Northern Star) showed their strength and directness, however Coton came out on top that day. Today, out for retribution, Stanground burst out of the blocks, surging down the middle and getting on the score sheet within minutes. Coton, marshalled by Ellen, retaliated through a rampaging run down the left from Julie, complete with a little stop-and-go to shrug off her mark, winning an early corner for her efforts. Moments later, fed by Bam and at it again, Julie launched a bullet that sailed millimetres over the crossbar and elicited gasps from both sets of coaches. Exploiting the old Coton 1-2 punch, after Julie’s jabs down the left, India snaffled a pass under pressure from Matilda, evaded two defenders and drove down the line to put in the right hook, finding Shannon on the spot to equalise. Coton settled into some nice passing football, playing the ball out of pressure with composure, creating space and then directing it forward through some lovely interplay in the midfield between Katty and Shannon. Stanground on the other hand were sporting a much more direct style of football, exploiting their size well and their speed up front. The two contrasting styles of play were evident moments later when Stanground played the longball down the guts and the ensuing chase saw them outstrip our defense and the No 10 clinically finish.

The second half continued at the same high paced tempo, the empty subs bench testing our Girls endurance. Even after another rout down the middle by Sanground to inch two in front, our Girls heads didn’t drop an inch. Rather, the never-say-die attitude solidified, generating chance after chance. Shannon, Julie, Indy and Katty all created chances with the Stanground Keep outstanding in goal, snaffling everything that came her way. On the odd occasion Stanground broke through, Tesni, Ellen and Frosso (in goal) were up to the challenge. India, pouncing on a perfectly directed kick out from Frosso, cut infield, drawing the defense. Indy laid the ball laterally to find Shannon on the 6-yard box for a top-drawer finish, closing the gap to 1 with 10 mins to play. The never-say-die attitude from our Girls saw the game go right down to the wire with two shots on goal and a penalty in the final 2 minutes. Sadly the victory was not to be. Remarkably, this is the Girls first League loss since 2019, and mind-blowing statistic to be proud of. Although saddened by the defeat, there were a lot of positives to take away from the match and some clear learnings for next year. Well done to both teams for a real battle… Merry Christmas!

Score: 2 – 3, Shannon (2)⚽️👍 ... See MoreSee Less

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Well played girls and unlucky that you could not get a draw. It is testament to Coton Football Club’s attitude that both U12 and U13 girls played their matches, both teams being under strength and low in numbers!

We really enjoyed our game with you yesterday, a game that could off easily gone either way. I personally thought your girls were unlucky not to come away with a draw at the end.

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11/12/21- Coton U12G vs Newmarket u12G (L)

Coton welcomed a fast improving Newmarket side to the Rec and the teams played out a tight and interesting match. Newmarket started much the brighter and stronger and caught Coton off guard with their speed and tenacity. Coton struggled to get out of their own half with Newmarket moving the ball forwards quickly and winning all the scraps and second balls. Their effort was soon rewarded with an excellent goal. Their striker drove into the right side of the penalty area, wrong footed the back pedalling defence by suddenly checking her run, looked up and played a simple pass to a teammate on the edge of the 6 yard box who smashed the ball home. This was the wake up call that Coton needed and they gradually started to get their foot on the ball and control the possession and territory with Shannon pulling the strings. After having dragged a great opportunity to equalise wide of the post she made no mistake with her next chance, rolling the ball precisely into the corner of the net from a tight angle. Coton were in the ascendancy for much of the rest of the half with Emelia, Shannon and India linking up to great effect down the right side and India repeatedly skipping away from her marker down the wing and putting in dangerous crosses. One of these crosses was swept in by Shannon to make it 2:1 and a few minutes later India sliced her way through the Newmarket defence into the right side of the area and coolly slotted the ball into the far corner for 3:1. Newmarket’s players heads didn't drop though. Their centre forward was a constant menace with her pace and power keeping Bam and Julie fully occupied and forcing them into making numerous recovery runs and last ditch tackles. She had a great opportunity to pull a goal back before the break when she burst through the Coton defence and went 1 on 1 with Cha but scuffed her shot just wide when she looked destined to score. At the other end Coton continued to press with Mads and Emily working hard in the midfield against a tenacious Newmarket midfield. Coton made a number of changes at half time and the second half proved to be a largely scrappy affair which yielded no more goals and few clear cut chances. Mads continued to battle hard and drive forward when she could and once Sophie settled in to an unfamiliar centre midfield role she made some great tackling back and a couple of outstanding, penetrating passes. Katty and Frosso worked hard and intelligently down the left to work the ball into dangerous areas without ever really troubling the Newmarket keeper. At the other end Newmarket missed a couple of half chances and Cha, whose distribution was excellent all match, made a couple of smart saves to maintain Coton’s lead including sticking out a leg to divert a curling free kick around the post. The Newmarket centre forward remained a threat until the end but was brilliantly handled by Ellen whose positioning and anticipation of play was exceptional all game. Bam and Lia provided great cover as well, snuffing out any danger when the ball was played into the space behind them and showing composure and skill on the ball to turn defence into attack.⚽️👍 ... See MoreSee Less

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