3s v Meopham
Needing to register their first win of the season Maidstone started the game strongly and dominated possession with the mid line of Jaime, Nikki, Katie and Ava all strong in nullifying Meophams stronger players and intelligently steering the play down the wide channels allowing the forward line of Ellie, Robyn, Julie and Hannah to attack crosses into the D but the oppo keeper made some telling saves. Although Maidstone were the better team mid way through the half Meopham took the lead, undeterred Maidstone rallied as a team and before the half was over we found an equaliser from a short corner thanks to smithy and her perfectly placed shot into the bottom right corner.
In the second half Meopham were trying to drive forward more but the Maidstone defence of Caroline, smithy, Lu and Bella were superb at all putting great tackles when required and Vicky made a couple of good saves to frustrate the oppo. Midway through the half with Maidstone again dominating the attacking play we took the lead from another short corner, this time smithy scoring with a powerful strike and with a little under 5 minutes remaining Maidstone made sure of the win with Ava driving to the baseline down the right to intelligently pull the ball back into the danger zone and Nikki made no mistake in placing her shot into the left side of goal. Final score 3-1 to Maidstone and an impressive team performance.
Match report by Julie Davies