Thanks to Matt Chapman for the U15 match reports:

Sunday 14th September v Longton Park Rangers Blue (away), PJYL Div 2

The first away game of the season against longton , who narrowly missed out on promotion last season. After a good win last week more of the same was needed. Brookfield started strongly again with neat passing and good pace going forward, exploiting the wings well with good delivery into the box with Josh b and Levi linking up well. Chances kept coming our way but we failed to take them. Dan L finally got on the end of a cross to break the deadlock, 1-0. Brookfield continued to pile on the pressure, still missing too many chances before Levi slotted home to make it 2-0. Just before the break Macca got into the box only to be brought down. He cooly slotted home the resulting penalty to take us to half time 3-0 in front

2nd half

At the break the lads were warned to expect a physical battle as the game was going that way. That is how it turned out. Brookfield were caught ball watching, which allowed their player in to finish well for 3-1. From here on the lads were subjected to flying elbows and rash tackles, this upset the rhythm of the game, making it a scruffy match. 3 Brookfield players got booked for dissent after appealing to the ref to get a hold on the game, which he was struggling to control at this point, but we held on and Matty played a perfectly timed pass for Levi who finished his 2nd of the game to round us out as 4-1 winners. Some lessons learnt today, but its 2 wins from 2.

Man of match Gaz

Sunday 7th September v Fulford & Tean (home), PJYL Div 2

Our opening match of the season against a team we lost both fixtures to last season. We were determined to put that right with our new look team, including new signings, Josh b, Dan p, Dan l, Josh d, Tom, Ollie and Macaulley now with us full time. Brookfield got off to a flying start putting Fulford under pressure with some quick passing/attacking football. It was only a matter or time before we scored, and that was the case as last seasons top scorer Levi put us 1-0 ahead. Brookfield continued to dominate, with the Fulford keeper in outstanding form. We then panicked a bit at the back failing to clear the ball when we had chance resulting in Fulford equalising 1-1. Unfortunately a bad fall during a fight for the ball ended with Adam picking up a suspected broken arm, confirmed on a visit to a & e , with an operation to reset it the next day. The game restarted and we responded well with Josh d scoring on his debut to end the half 2-1 up.

2nd half

Brookfield started the 2nd half strongly with plenty of chances. Josh d was soon on the scoresheet again to make it 3-1, more great play resulted in more chances, Cody then picked the ball up in midfield , found space and unleashed a 25yrd thunderbolt, leaving their keeper no chance , 4-1. With the game almost won we slowed down a bit, this allowed Fulford to show their quality with a fine finish, 4-2. We upped it again allowing time for Josh d to net a superb debut hat trick, 5-2. Fulford are a determined side with quality, and they still kept going and finished another chance to make it 5-3, we survived a late penalty scare to finish 5-3 winners against a team that will continue to be hard to beat.

Man of match Josh d (great hat trick on debut)