U12s Rangers Match Reports

Sunday 21st September

Stafford Rangers Juniors Vs Stafford Rangers FC

Our first game of the 2008/09 season got off to a great start with a 6 – 2 win away from home against Stafford Rangers Juniors at Tillington Manor.

 Good attacking play down the right hand side resulted in an unlucky deflection for the first goal to put us 1-0 up, Juniors then pressed and levelled just before half time.

 Juniors move ahead shortly after the re start but superb goals from Adam Bakewell, Josh Bright, and a hat trick from Matty Downes completed the day after an excellent second half display by the Rangers.

Sunday 20th April

Brereton Social 4 Stafford Rangers Juniors 3

A top quality clash with both sides playing good football.

Brereton, unbeaten all season, found themselves 2-0 down with two strikes from Rangers top scorer Matty Downes either side of the half time break.

Brereton then pushed hard and levelled the scores.

Rangers soaked up further pressure before Matty Downes struck again to claim his hat trick.

Brereton, finding themselves behind again, then pushed hard and scored a well taken goal from 20 yards out.

Brereton now piled on the pressure and were rewarded in the dying minutes with the winner.

Sunday 16th March 08

Stafford Rangers Juniors 2 Brereton Social 5

The first ten minutes saw a good contest between these two sides but Brereton then made their superior pocession count by hitting four goals before Rangers replied through Adam Bakewell.

Rangers gave themselves hope with a Matty Downes goal in the first minute of the second half and several more Rangers chances then went begging before Brereton finally finished off Rangers 10 minutes from time.

Sunday 2nd March 08

Newcastle Rovers Reds 0 Stafford Rangers Juniors 7

A game of two halves!

A goalless first half saw the best chances fall to Newcastle who were unlucky not to lead at half time.

The second half saw Rangers, playing with the strong wind, score a flurry of goals.

Ethan Mould started the scoring with two goals in quick succession, he went on to complete a hat trick late on.

Meanwhile Matty Downes weighed in with two and notably Tom Bailey, playing in goal and known for his long kicks, managed to score directly from his box on two occassions.

Sunday 24th February 08 -

Rocester Elkes Green 3 Stafford Rangers Juniors 3

Rangers won an early corner resulting in an unfortunate Rocester own goal.

Rocester responded quickly to equalise before an individual run and shot from Matty Downes put Rangers back in the lead.

Rocester then began to press and were rewarded with 2 goals and a 3-2 half time lead.

The second half saw plenty of chances for both sides but it was Callum Jones goal that managed to secure a point for Rangers in an end to end affair.