Castleknock Celtic under 9 soccer team

It was a beautiful sunny day when we travelled out to Portrane for our semi-final match against St Ita's AFC. However the day began to turn bad as soon as the match got started. The home team started very strongly and they managed to score two goals early in the match. Andy our goalkeeper for the day had no chance to get near either shot.

I am glad to see that we did not let this setback dent our confidence. We continued to put pressure on in the attack and both Zhudi and Niamh forced the home keeper to make a few dramatic saves. In the second half our pressure finally paid off when Nado scored a brilliant goal to bring the score back to 2-1.

We continued to press strongly for an equaliser, but St Ita's were always dangerous in the counter attack. Andy pulled off a very dramatic save with his hip before they finally managed to slip one in to stretch their lead to 3-1. Despite our best efforts, we were unable to narrow the gap before the end of the game.

Nado was running non-stop for the whole game helping out in attack, defence and midfield. In addition he never argued with the referee. Therefore he was declared man-of-the-match. While this spells the end of our cup campaign, all the team can be very proud of their performance today and through the whole campaign.

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