Upper
Hutt City 1 Seatoun 0
Women's
Central League
Maidstone
Park, Upper Hutt
Sunday
19th June 2016
Attendance
about 50
So
my plan of visiting all Wellington clubs at least once this season is
getting there slowly. Although it is likely to be over 2 seasons now, as currently having a job where your employers
idea of flexibility is you being available to work whenever they want
you to, it hasn't been easy!
So
having picked Miramar Rangers v Western Suburbs in the Men's Central
League as the game of the weekend, I was unable to get time off on
Saturday to go (and it sounded like a good one Miramar winning 3-2 in
the last minute after Wests had fought back from 2-0 down). So
instead I found myself at Upper Hutt City again. This isn't a bad
thing, being a Dundee United fan, how can you not like a club that
plays in Orange and Black! Also Upper Hutt City's Women's Central
League team is a pretty good one.
The news this week, that Palmerston North
club Valeron Wanderers, had withdrawn from the league (and folded as
a club) had a silver lining for Upper Hutt City as with Valeron's results expunged, it sees Upper Hutt City back
into 2nd place just 3 points behind leaders Wellington
United.
They
were up against last season's champions, Seatoun, who despite winning
the league by 5 points last season, have struggled this season and
after the Valeron situation find themselves in
5th place with just 1 win and 1 draw.
Despite
traveling to Upper Hutt for work I still managed to misjudge the time
it takes and arrived 5 minutes after the game had kicked off and
found that Upper Hutt City were 1-0 up through a goal from Emma Main.
The
1st half was played almost entirely in the Seatoun half, I
had been told that Seatoun had lost a couple of players from last
season but looking at the team it didn't look too much different from
the one I remember seeing last season, they may have lost a striker
or 2 though as when they did manage to get the ball into the Upper
Hutt half and near goal they were largely ineffective and never
tested Cushla Litchwark, in the City goal.
Upper
Hutt City had plenty of possession but never created that many
chances, they did have one great chance when the number 12 cut across
the penalty area but unfortunately hit it straight into the advancing
Seatoun keeper. Despite not that many clear goal scoring chances being
created by either team in the first half there was still some nice
football played and great touches from both teams.
In
the 2nd half as the weather was threatening to pack in,
from a spectators point of view the football did, Upper Hutt City
seemingly happy to contain Seatoun and not really push for any
further goals, while Seatoun failed to pose any real threat and never
really looked like getting an equaliser and the game finished 1-0 to
Upper Hutt City (and I missed the only goal!)
Seatoun
are still a talented and skillful team who just seem to have lost
their way this season. Upper Hutt City deserved the win and are
locked in a 3 way battle for the league title with Wellington United
& Palmerston North Marist, but if they are going to come out on
top in this they really need to start converting their possession into
more goals.
Thank you for writinng this
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