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U8 Mosquitoes vs Newton Aycliffe Juniors
Another tough game this week as the U8 Mosquitoes travelled to Newton Aycliffe. Great team display and defensive resilience this week by everyone! Nelly, Jack, Archie, Theo, Blaize, Josh, Toby and Roman gave everything this week and the coaches couldn't of asked for anymore. Coaches player of the match went to Theo and Toby. Theo won every tackle today and was everywhere simply brilliant. Toby showed some unbelievable skill today and picked up some good goals. Parents player of the match went to Jack who battled hard throughout and never gave up.
Middleton Rangers U9’s Vs - Newton Aycliffe
Middleton was looking to build on an encouraging performance last week and came out of the traps quickly giving Newton Aycliffe no time to settle, resulting in some quick fire goals for the hosts.
As the game progressed Newton Aycliffe grew into the game and started to cause Middleton problems - with some heart stopping moment for the Middleton coaches and supporters.
Middleton played some lovely football in spells today with the new formation starting to click. A couple of great individual goals and some well worked team goals too. The training drills are really starting to pay off.
Well done everyone! 👏🏻
Goals:
Harry ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Gene ⚽️
Joe ⚽️
Joseph ⚽️
William ⚽️ ⚽️
POTM: Harry 🏆
⚽ Middleton Rangers U12s vs Redcar ⚽
The lads battled for every ball, never gave up and continued to work hard for each other right until the final whistle. There was some fantastic football played, some great passages of play and plenty of attacking moments, with Middleton unlucky not to get on the scoresheet. The effort and togetherness were there for everyone to see, and the boys can be proud of how they kept going against a tough opposition.
Heads up, lads! Results won’t always go our way, but the attitude, teamwork and determination shown today are what we want to see every week. We go again! 🟧⬛️⚽
🏆 Parents’ Player of the Match – Freddie C
Playing out on the wing, Freddie put in another fantastic performance. He played some great football, made some brilliant runs into the box and looked dangerous going forward. A well-deserved award for his effort and attacking play! 👏
🏆 Opposition Coach’s Player of the Match – Jackson
Jackson put in a great shift, holding the ball up brilliantly and bringing others into play with some excellent through balls. He also matched that quality with some fantastic tackles, showing great strength and determination throughout. A well-deserved award for an all-round strong performance! 💪⚽
Middleton Rangers vs FC Teesside
Our fine form continued this morning with a tough match at home to FC Teesside.
We started the game as bright as the weather, creating chances and working on the link up play between our lads, and our quick thinking attackers caught FC Teesside napping with a quick short corner, with Tommy drilling the ball into the net.
The heat played its part and the lads had to dig deep, but their efforts over the past few weeks in training paid off, and kept us going to the full time whistle. 💪
Special mention to our goalkeeper James who made multiple outstanding saves, earning himself MOTM! 👏
MOTM
James 🏆
Goalscorer
Tommy ⚽️
Assist
William 🅰️
Under 8 Mosquitos v Stockton town reds
The game started off and the Mossies held their own were pressing hard from the front with Toby and Blaize leading the pressing, Archie and Theo were proving a tough nut to crack in the back and Nelly in goals. After a while we saw Theo come off for Josh and Blaize for Roman.
The Mossies made a sharp sting in the Stockton goal, with some great work coming from Archie down the left sliding the ball to Roman who had a shot well saved fall to an on rushing Blaize to smash in from the edge of the box. The Mossies gave it their all in the 1st half.
2nd half saw Roman get the gloves on and the team shape up with Roman in goal, Archie and Theo back in defence, Toby and Blaize back upfront. The team never stopped trying and pressing which is huge confidence for the coaches. After 10 minutes Blaize and Toby came off for Archie and Theo to go upfront and Nelly and Josh to go in defence. Stockton piled on the pressure and some great resilience by the whole team kept them off bay but then some great tackling and defending by Nelly and Josh kept the scoreline as low as possible!
POTM- Blaize who never stopped running and was a constant menace all game! 💪
POTM- Nelly who never put a foot wrong all game and made some huge crunching tackles when in defence! ⚽️
U8 spitfires v Hardwick FC
A great match today against a side at a similar level to us who we’ve played a few times over the summer. The lads played really well
The boys looked strong and together as a team. When they pushed up and pressured the opposition they looked dangerous.
[C] shout to our captain Ernst who impressed with some good tackles and always moved the ball forward.
🏆 Well done Aidie for parents POTM. Moved well on the ball and is playing with more confidence. That run up the wing and assist in the dev game 👌
🏆well done Harrison for coaches POTM. Great in goal and always in the right position upfront, worked hard to win the ball high up the pitch and pressured their defence and goalie. A constant threat.
⚽️ U12 Matchday ⚽️
Middleton rangers v Leven
A brilliant performance from the lads today! 👏
The boys played some really good football, worked hard for each other and showed great teamwork from start to finish. Everyone put a shift in, battled for every ball and played their part.
Really pleasing to see the lads continuing to grow as a team and supporting each other throughout the game. Plenty of positives to take from today and a performance everyone can be proud of! 💪⚽️
A massive well done to every single one of the lads — the effort, attitude and togetherness they showed today was fantastic. Keep working hard, keep believing in each other and keep pushing forward! 🔥
Proud of you boys! Up the Rangers! 🟧⬛️
Goals
Freddie Cot ⚽️⚽️
Harrison ⚽️
Jacob S ⚽️
🏆 Parent Man of the Match – Shaun 🏆
A brilliant performance from Shaun today on the wing! 👏 He worked tirelessly, caused problems throughout the game and finished with two great assists. ⚽️🙌
🧤 Opposition coach Man of the Match – Mason 🏆
Another top performance from Mason in goal today! 👏 He made some fantastic saves when called upon and showed great confidence and composure between the sticks.
Trip down to coach Liam's old stomping ground for the u10 Spitfires today. Away at Northallerton.
First half was very tight in what was a physical battle between the two teams.
At the start of the second half the Sptifires got their passing game going and took control of the match, creating opportunities, taking their chances and keeping Northallerton penned in their own half.
Credit to Northallerton for then making things difficult for the Spitfires towards the end, with some lovely individual runs.
Good battle between two well matched teams. Entertaining stuff!
Well done to all the boys today, superb effort 💪🍊⚽
Benji - ⚽⚽
Sam -⚽⚽
Finley - A
Max - A
Owen - A
Coaches POTM - Owen
Parents POTM - Henry
Opposition POTM - Sam
Captain - Henry
South Park Blues v Middleton Rangers Spitfires U11’s
A very competitive game of football from both teams giving parents and coaches real entertainment 👏 ⚽️
This weeks aim was to encourage everyone to play as a team and pass the ball around all areas of the pitch. The lads looked confident on the ball and resilient when defending putting in some excellent challenges! 💪
Keep up the hard work!!
MOTM
William 🏆
Goals
William ⚽️⚽️
Middleton Rangers U9’s vs Marton Blues
Middleton served up a rollercoaster for the home support and coaches today in what was a very entertaining end to end match that could have gone either way.
The boys adapted well to the new formation and started quickly but as the game progressed, Marton looked more dangerous.
Whilst there remains plenty for the boys to work on there were signs of progress today. Well done, boys. 👏🏻
Goals:
Joe ⚽️
Joseph ⚽️
Luke ⚽️
OG ⚽️
Coaches POTM: Joe
MRFC U10 Hurricanes vs Riverside Junior Girls U10
Very impressive performance from the Hurricanes all round today against a good footballing team.
The boys played with a high level of intensity throughout, pressing the ball well and making it difficult for the opponents to play out.
Some good team moves and finishing led to plenty of goals. Well done boys, keep up the good work!
⚽️ Jackson
⚽️⚽️⚽️ Zach
⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ Albie
🏆 Coaches' player: Josh
Strong defensive performance from Josh, winning his duels and playing really well with Theo at the back.
Josh's distribution from the back gave the team a strong attacking platform and is an area he's really developed in over the past few weeks. Well done Josh.
🥇 Parents' player: Zach
Controlled the game in the middle today, winning tackles all over the pitch and capping it off with three goals.
Under 8 Mosquitoes v Grangetown boys Club
The game kicked off with the mosquitos transforming to a 2-2 formation, with Nelly in goal, Archie and Theo in defence and Toby upfront with Blaize. It started with us getting into a physical match with Grangetown with our hosts just slightly edging it.
However, they found it hard to beat our defence with Archie and Theo playing in fine form. That being said they made the break through with a well taken goal which snuck in past Nelly.
However, this didn't deter the mossies who roared straight back with a brilliant ball into the box fired over by Archie and Toby like all good strikers do found himself on the end of it with the ball just to loop in.
We were back in the fight and another goal soon came! We won a corner from the right side, Roman took the cross looking for Toby but it was well cleared, the ball just fell on half way for Archie to run onto and strike the ball into the top left corner, what a strike!
Half time came and Roman went in goal Josh and Jack stayed in defence with Theo and Toby playing upfront. The game was end to end in the 2nd half with out hosts getting another 3 goals but we weren't done as Archie came on to take a corner which he scored directly from.
Coaches POTM- Archie
Opposition POTM- Nelly
Parents POTM- Jack
MRFC U10 Hurricanes vs Darlington Young Bulls.
Another strong performance from the Hurricanes today.
The lads matched the physicality of a strong opponent, which let their quality on the ball do the rest.
Solid in defence once again. In attack, they always looked a threat with fast counters and an onslaught of dangerous balls into the box.
Keep up the good work Hurricanes!
⚽️ Teddy
⚽️ Clarke
⚽️ Jackson
⚽️ Mitch
🏆 Coaches' player: Freddie
Covered in goal today and made some big saves in the first half. Looked assured throughout in greasy conditions.
🥇 Parents' player: Clarke
Clarke is parents' player for the second week in a row and once again well deserved.
Brought his usual tenacity and drive to the game alongside some real quality for his goal. Get in Clarke!