Castleknock Celtic under 9 soccer team

It was a tightly fought match when Ratoath came to Porterstown for our latest League match. Castleknock had many chances during the first half but seemed unable to put the ball in the net. Our best chance came when Zhudi hit the cross-bar with a brilliant shot.

The wind was with us in the second half and Robert managed to put us in the lead. A short while afterwards Zhudi managed to stretch our lead by scoring on his third attempt after having two shots saved and rebound off the Ratoath Keeper.

All our team played well, but in particular David O'Connor was declared man-of-the-match for his great performance at mid-field.

Castleknock began to feel confident at this stage and threw all their efforts into attack. This was a mistake because Ratoath counter attacked and managed to get the ball to three unmarked players in the box. Our goalie Nado had no chance of stopping this attack and our lead was pulled back to a single goal The final few minutes of the game were very tense as Ratoath tried valiantly for an equaliser.

Luckily we were able to hold off for a narrow 2-1 victory. This result keeps us in 4th position in the league, but level on points with Maynooth in third place and only 2 points behind the leaders Howth.

Here are some clips of the action curtsey of YouTube:

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