Round 3 - Bulleen

Our 3rd Round match was against Bulleen at Wembley Park. A good day for Football with cool and overcast conditions. The lads had played Bulleen a few weeks ago in a practice game and came away with a 1 nil win. It would be interesting to see how the boys performed today after a convincing 10 nil drubbing over Ashburton last week.

No Off-Side today, however our boys were instructed to honour the rule regardless. The game got off to a good start with both sides attacking the ball. Box Hill took the early control of the game by winning the 50/50 contests and supporting each other. As usual our defence was rock solid and it is fair to say that teams have found it extremely difficult to get past our back 4.

Our first goal came courtesy of Carlo, who after missing a couple of opportunities earlier in the game, ran through the box a slotted the ball into the bottom corner. We were trying to avoid hitting high balls at the Bulleen Keeper as he is very good in the air. Our 2nd goal came shortly afterwards via a free kick by Aaron S. This is the 2nd week in a row that Aaron has achieved the same result from a free kick.

We finished the 1 st half with a 3rd goal from Nick, a neat pass into space from Jesse set him up beautifully and he made no mistake in hitting the target. Halftime arrived and we had a comfortable 3 goal lead. It could have been 5 or 6 had luck gone our way, however the Bulleen Keeper was good enough to stop a couple of certain goals from going in.

The 2nd half ended up scoreless, however Bulleen did manage a couple of daylight raids into our defensive area. Bulleen had chances but sprayed their shots wide and failed to capitalise. In contrast, Box Hill controlled the tempo of the game and it was nice to see some good series of passes through the midfield and switches of play across the back line.

We had many chances to convert during the second half, however Bulleen managed to clear the ball or their Keeper did the impossible. Next week we travel to Anderson Park to play Doncaster in what is sure to be a hard tussle. Don't expect any favours from the boys in Yellow and Green as they love to try and beat us on their terms.