Harry Shaw Cup 2nd Round: Sacred Heart

On the 27th January 2020, Wyken had their next fixture in the Harry Shaw Cup against Sacred Heart. After a warm up and team talk by Mr. Brown and Mr. Vernon, the players went onto the pitch. The game kicked off and Wyken started the game well with several through balls making their way to Calvin and Zach who used their pace to get past the Sacred Heart defense. Midway through the first half Sacred Heart had some good opportunities to score and kept Louie, Arjun and Archie busy in defense and Ryan, who played in goal for the first time for Wyken, made several fantastic saves. Just before the half time whistle Sacred Heart scored as a long range shot took many deflections before falling to the feet of the Sacred Heart player who smashed the ball into the net. 1-0. Half time.

The players jogged over to Mr. Brown and Mr. Vernon for a quick team talk, both coaches expressed how pleased they were with the team and that they are still in the game and are doing extremely well against a very good Sacred Heart team.

The second half began, similar to the first half the game was evenly matched with both teams enjoying a competitive game. Wyken’s players made some excellent tackles and showed some great dribbling skills to get past the Sacred Heart players. The second half was end to end with both teams having chances to score and if not for some excellent saves from Ryan and great defending from the Sacred Heart defenders the score could have been a lot more. In the remaining few minutes of the match, Ben and Corey showed some great effort in winning the ball back and getting it down the pitch to get it to our forward players. After an excellent physical, competitive game the final whistle was blown with the scoreline finishing 1-0 to Sacred Heart.

Both teams coaches had great compliments for each other’s teams and acknowledged that it was a very even, enjoyable game with both teams putting in 100% effort.

The players made their way over to Mr. Brown and Mr. Vernon for the final team talk, both coaches saw that the players were disappointed to be knocked out of the cup but both coaches explained to the players how well they did against a team that are very tough and have some excellent footballers. Both coaches decided that the whole team would get man of the match as it was a great team performance. Before leaving, the Sacred Heart coach came over to the Wyken players and complemented the players and told the players that Wyken gave his team their toughest game this season.