The year 7 boys travelled across to Streetly Academy on the 14th January for their eagerly anticipated third round cup tie.
Streetly went into the game as strong favourites fielding four academy players. Within the first two minutes, the Streetly striker who plays for Derby County was on the scoresheet and it looked like it could be a long afternoon for the Turves Green boys.
Despite the early setback, the Turves Green boys settled into the game and began to get the ball down and play. Oliver, Caleb and Callum played some fantastic football in the middle of the pitch with Riley, James and Riley controlling the incoming Streetly attacks.
The boys went into half time 1 nil down but were more than a match for their opponents.
The second half started the way that the first half had finished with our boys growing in confidence. Shortly into the second half, Charlie got his rewards for the amount of effort and running that he put into the match. A mix up in the Streetly defence allowed Charlie to steal in and finish off from a tight angle to make it 1-1.
This seemed to wake the Streetly boys up and they soon regained the lead through one of their Birmingham City academy players. Kobi, our stand in goalkeeper, produced a series of fantastic saves before a well worked equaliser came once again from Charlie.
With penalties looming, Oliver was played in on goal and from the tighest of angles powerfully shot past the opposition goalkeeper to make it 3-2 to Turves Green. A nervous few minutes followed but the year 7's were able to hold onto an impressive win against a very good Streetly Academy team to progress to the next round of the cup.
Credit to all of the boys for their efforts this afternoon. They were an absolute pleasure to take across the city and represented our school superbly. Also, a big thanks to Ms Abbott who very kindly drove the minibus for us - a lucky charm maybe!?
