Wendover Juniors 5 Prestwood Colts 4

My heart has just started beating again after such a nail biter!! This is why we watch football!!

The new concept of leaving the dressing room to music seemed to have had an impact. The man of the match at the last home game chooses a song to run out to. Adam was man of the match and chose AC DC Rock 'n' Roll Train!!

After numerous attacks on goal after the first few minutes the belief was there but as soon as we started to believe the hammer blow came. Prestwood take the lead with their first attack of the game - typical!!! This is a side that certainly know how to finish and true to form went two up. All this time we were playing well and it was really hard to believe we were losing.

Just before half time Josh was away, on his run towards the right side of the goal his heels were clipped and realising John was the ref and that we had no chance of getting a penalty he stayed on his feet to drive the ball home and take us into the break with a chance. 1-2 down!

The second half started brightly but within 1 minute of the start it was back to the same old Prestwood who had their first attack on goal and scored making it 1-3. The boys heads went down but due to a great turn out from the parents, loads of encouragement, the AC DC song ringing in their ears, the belief on their faces and the desire to get into the next round the game turned a corner. Almost direct from the kick off Ben W used his strength and skill, twisting and turning before drilling the ball bast the keeper. (2-3).

Ben W's goal really did turn the match and not long after this Ed (man of the match) ran in with the ball from the left hand side and blasted it past the keeper making it 3-3 and now a completely different game. We just needed to get our noses in front. WJFC kept pushing forward trying to get a result from the game. Ben W took a throw from just inside their half which Dan controlled beautifully before looking up and like Waynes Rooneys goal vs Newcastle gave the keeper absolutely no chance (click on the link to see a carbon copy of Dans Goal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wO3HhOu6Y).

Going 4-3 up made the game more and more tense we now had to either push on or sustain untold amounts of pressure! Luckily we pushed on Alex delivered the pass of the game to Josh who shot so hard that the keeper could only push the ball out to Ben S who was there to tap home and make it 5-3!!!!

At this point we were still creating chances and only the Prestwood keeper stopped us increasing the score, Ed went extremely close with the keeper pushing the ball wide with his finger tips. Ed again scored but only to see a very dubious linesmans flag go up!!!

Prestwood pulled one back to make it 5-4!!! HOW TENSE CAN YOU GET!!!

Now we had 8 minutes to hold on and hold on we did. Jack made some unbelievable saves including one in the last second of the game to ensure that we reach our second cup semi-final of the season!!!! The defence did such an outstanding job Luke got his first ever assist and headed the ball out of defence beautifully to keep the pressure back on the away side. Brandon did a heroic job on the Prestwood Number 9 who was their key striker ensuring that he was closed out of any attacks. Georgi worked so hard, being rewarded with an assist and really putting the effort in in Midfield and Adam and Rory did a super job in controlling the right back position. Rory looked good up front too!! Jake was a great captain and did a cracking job of getting the guys going!!

This was a game not for the faint hearted and would have been the opening game on Match of the Day if it was filmed!!!

WELL DONE BOYS - SEMI FINAL HERE WE COME!!

Ed chooses the song for the next home game and lets hope it brings us the same luck as ACDC!