November 15th 2025. Goals galore for the u11 Boys.

Wolverhampton started brightly in this league encounter, with Fabien thriving in his new role as central striker, and he opened the scoring by reacting quickest to a loose ball in the Aston defence before rounding the goalkeeper to slot home. He almost doubled the lead shortly after, connecting well with a fine cross from Thai, only to be denied by a strong save, and as the pressure mounted it seemed only a matter of time before we scored again. It duly arrived when Ollie smashed the ball into the net at the back post from Hassan's excellent flighted corner and at that point we were coasting. Aston responded well, however by catching Wolves on the counter to pull one back just before half-time, and with the scoring remaining 2–1 at the break there was still everything to play for in the second half.

The goal had certainly given our opponents a lift and their lively forwards caused our defence persistent problems in the second half and they eventually found an equaliser with an excellent finish. Despite the disappointment of seeing their two goal advantage vanish our lads still seemed capable of regaining the initiative and Mustafa went close with a powerful effort that the keeper did well to stop but it was Aston who scored next with another well-worked goal, only for Mustafa to tie the game at 3–3 after the chance had been created for him by a flowing move involving Hassan and Thai. What an end-to-end battle this match this was turning out to be.Jakson produced a superb save to keep Wolves level, and at the other end Duarte struck a brilliant left-footed free-kick that rattled the crossbar, before a harshly awarded penalty against Hassan, now playing in defence, was successfully converted to give our opponents the advantage once more. Amazingly our lads responded yet again with Duarte unleashing a stunning left-footed strike that flew past Aston's goalkeeper to make the score 4–4 and it appeared that nothing was ever going to separate these two fine teams.

If this had been the final score no-one could really have complained but unfortunately Wolves conceded late on when a mis-hit goal kick fell kindly to an Aston attacker, who took full advantage of his good fortune to score what proved to be the winner. Despite the narrow 5–4 defeat, however, the lads once again showed tremendous character, teamwork, and resilience throughout an exciting encounter and it is all part of the learning process.

Squad: Jakson, Zora, Charlie, Ollie, Uthmann, Hassan, Thai, Mustafa, Fabien, Monroe, Duarte, Corban.