A new feature on this blog sees Sports Development apprentice Zaki Rahman report on games around the Academy, beginning with the Men's football 2nd XI.
Worthing College 2nd XI arrived at Worthing United Football Ground preparing for their first game of the competitive season without main coach Danny Cullip who was absent.
The side was to be led by Tina Price and Zaki Rahman, a pair who are inexperienced in different ways when coaching a football side.
The team turned up and immediately after seeing the other side conversation started to flow about the size of the Kingston players.
Once again this year the Worthing Academy is small in physical presence, yet it did not affect their performance last season.
The team was much changed from last season with only three 2nd team players left in the side and the squad made up of mainly 1st years.
Worthing were told to press the ball high up the pitch and win the ball back in Kingston’s half, but this philosophy was not instilled from kick off and Kingston were allowed to settle getting a lot of early possession and chances.
Worthing then conceded a penalty when the Kingston Striker got wrong side of Josh Butler and was taken down. 1 -0 Kingston.
But Worthing responded well just as they have done in previous years, and a quick bit of thinking from Abdoulie Bah with a quick throw in, allowed Dom Stannard to be played through on goal and calmly finish. 1-1.
But Worthing once again conceded this time from a corner, where Gillard was unable to come and claim because of a man marking him and poor marking from Worthing allowed for an easy tap in. Half time 2-1 Kingston.
After a stern talking to about where Worthing were going wrong, they came out in the second half pressing the ball hard and winning it back in Kingston’s half in a new 4-4-2 formation, Worthing looked on top and had a great chance to score with Josh Butler.
But caught on the break Kingston went 3-1 up and this is where poor mental attitude and poor physical fitness got the better of the Worthing side. The were no longer pressing the ball, giving it a way poorly and reverting to a long ball which was never going to work with the Kingston Centre back’s size.
Two more goals were taken well by a Centre Midfielder who ran the game for Kingston and was never really picked up throughout the whole game and Kingston went away worthy winners, Worthing maybe just lucky it wasn’t more than five.
Worthing are not far off being a good side, but attitude, fitness and team work needs to improve for them to beat sides like Kingston who they will come across a lot in this league.
Unlucky, bounce back next week!
Zaki
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