Good preparation for the visit of Liverpool.

Saturday afternoon, 3 o'clock, and finally some football! After 44 days of non-activity in the match department it was a releif to finally get back out there. After such a great finish to 2009 you could be forgiven for being a little nervous that the enforced 44 day break might not of worked in our favour. All the lads turned up for the Ashton Town V Rochdale Town match kitted out in their new trackies which I must say do look nice. After getting ready it was out for a warm up. Half an hour warm up complete and back into the dressing room for final instructions. Preparation over and out to get the game underway.
The opening ten minutes were pretty even with both teams game plans very easy to see. Rochdale were looking for the long diagnal ball over the heads of our full backs lee green and andrew mawdsley, whilst we tried to get the ball down and knock it around. After ten minutes we started to impose our superiority over bottom placed Rochdale Town and broke the deadlock on 15 minutes when a corner was swung in and baxy (Christian baxby) put the ball into the back of the net with a cheeky flick.
We didn't have to wait long to double that lead when 3 minutes later a lovely ball from the centre of midfield sent eddy (Ste Edwards) through on goal before he hit a powerful left foot drive beating the keeper at his near post. That's how it stayed until half time despite eddy's attempt at a superb over head kick after a cross came in from the right it was behind eddy, who turned round and somehow managed to get an over head volley on target. Unfortunately it fell into the hands of the goalkeeper.
Half time came and focus was the main thing. We new rochdale would come out at us in the second half. I mean who wouldn't in that situation? So we new the next goal was vital. After 3 minutes of the second half it came when Rochdale left eddy one on one with a defender, which is a silly thing to do especially down the hill, he raced away and slotted home to make it 3-0 and effectively game over. Chance after chance spurned in the second half meant that's how it finished but it could
of been many more then 3.
A confident performance going into the biggest match in Ashton Towns history. Well done boys you can be proud of a good performance. Let's just hope we can take it into Wednesday.