April 24th 2026. u11 Girls’ in Divisional Cup action.

The Primary Girls team took part in a highly competitive round of divisional cup fixtures this

evening, and can be incredibly proud of their performance across their four matches. They created numerous scoring opportunities, showed strong possession and control, and didn’t even concede a goal, despite every game inexplicably resulting in a 0-0 draw. On another day, the quality of chances created, would surely have resulted in goals and wins, due to the effort, attitude, and teamwork which they had displayed in abundance, but football is about small margins, and today we failed to get our just deserts.

The tone was probably set in our first two games when we failed to make the breakthrough against Aston, despite Olivia coming close with a dangerous free kick, and Willow testing the goalkeeper late on before we were frustrated by the Harborne keeper in the next game who did well to block a close range effort from Sienna after a super cross from Mila who was lively throughout. There was also plenty of determination and attacking in evidence against Kings Norton but no tangible reward, despite excellent link-up play between Olivia and Willow and Clara coming close on multiple occasions.

We ended with a match against Cannock and played our best football of the entire evening in this game. There were chances created for Willow, Mila, and Clara at one end of the pitch whilst our defensive resilience was once again illustrated at the other. Indeed, it is hardly surprising that we kept those four clean sheets because Eva and Erin had both made important saves throughout the tournament, Izzy and Jess were always composed and organised, and everyone had shown such an impressive commitment to help out when required.

Well done to all the girls – a fantastic team performance full of effort, positivity, and promise!

Squad: Eva, Erin, Izzy, Jess, Mila, Olivia, Clara, Willow, Sienna