Queens' 4 Clare/Fitz 1

Another game, another win, the Queens' Machine carries on rolling. Game started tight with Clare pressurising Queens' possession game, but then Paul broke through into the box and was hacked down and our FA qualified referee correctly gave a penalty.. which i duly converted past the keeper for my second goal of the season :-)
We dominated possession in midfield for most of the game, with Clare's game based on by-passing midfield with long balls to their quick strikers, but our defence dealt with this tactic well and played the ball out to Paul and Herve.
Paul managed to win another penalty, but unfortunately the keeper made an outstanding save to claw the powerfully placed shot away from the goal deny me :-( ah well, Gabriel scored from the resulting corner so it all worked out OK.
Shortly after this, Paul broke through and (for a change) wasn't hacked down in the box so he neatly lobbed the keeper for a 3-0 half time lead.
Second half was more of the same, we dominated possession and Clare were getting frustrated and some of their challenges were getting a bit late but the referee did a good job of calming it all down and gave out 3 yellow cards over the course of the game. We managed to get a 4th goal midway through the half through Tom after a great two touch move involving almost every queens' player which began from dan's throw out, and were comfortably holding on possession and playing nice passing football. In the last minute, after a long ball through, dan and their striker collided in a very innocolous challenge (if anything, it looked like a foul on the keeper!) and Ed decided to ruin our nice clean sheet by giving a penalty to Clare (despite noone else on the pitch even asking for one!!!) and then put that one in to make it 4-1.
In the end, a nice win with good football throughout

Team: Dan, Pete, Me, Adrien, Matt, Andy B, Paul, Herve, Stefan, Tom, Gabriel, Yue

Goals: Andrew Hawkins, Gabriel Paternain, Paul Conduit, Tom Baden