Queens' 5 Catz/Sidney 0

I was away for this one, so here's Herve's match report:

Game was fine, we played well, in my opinion one of our best football this season, our goalkeeper was excellent and helped us a lot to keep a clean sheet. Adrien did a very good job at organizing the defense inyour absence.We played very well in the first half even though we had two new players (Alex from Queen's and my friend Plamen, who both did a very good job). We scored quite early in the game (our forwards were on top form) which was great because Catz came with a good team and could have been dangerous if we had let them get some confidence (their team was much better than the one we had played at the beginning of the league season, and also better than the team they played vs Zoology with). It was 4-0 at half time and second half was less easy, everyone was a bit knackered after a very good collective hard work and some good football despite the poor quality of the pitch. I can't remember who scored all the goals (Tom, Gabriel for sure but you have to check), I scored one goal on a great cross from Gabriel late in the second half.
Team: Santiago, Alex, Matt, Adrien, Plamen, Dan Bolland, Herve, Paul, AndyB, Tom, Gabriel
Goals: Tom (3), Gabriel, Herve

Queens' 2 St. Johns' 2

Tough game against a strong St Johns team which were promoted from div2 this season and had beaten catz and corpus in their first 2 group games. They have 2 pacy strikers and a battling midfield and as well have a couple of quick, tall and dominant centre-backs.

We started the game badly, not retaining possession well enough as Johns harassed us in midfield and we had to fight uphill. They scored a goal (which i thought was miles offside) and could have had a couple more and we were mainly playing on the counter-attack with tom and gabs having a few half-chances so we went 1-0 down at the break.

In the second half, we played much better football, keeping the ball well and stopping John's playing almost completely and had lots of chances before Gareth converted a gabriel cross to equalise, and then a few minutes later, Gabriel put us into the lead. However, Johns hit a goal on the break after we'd pushed up too far and tried to play the offside trap (not a good idea without linesmen in hindsight). Soon after this Dan got taken out by their striker and was concussed for a minute, though he badly stood in goal for the final couple of minutes of the game before going off in an ambulance to stay overnight in the hospital. He's OK now though thankfully, and just as mentally able as he ever was ;-)

Team: Dan Cook, Dan Bolland, Andy, Adrien, Matt Miller, Gareth, Herve, Matt Wells, Stefan, Tom, Gabriel
Goals: Gareth, Gabriel

Queens' 10 Corpus 1

Good start to the Cup campaign with this very one-sided game but it was a good opportunity for everyone to get a game of football under their belt after almost 2 months without football!
Team: Dan, AndyB, AndyH, Adrien, Matt, Yue, Paul, Herve, Stefan, Tom, Gabriel, Gareth
Goals: Tom (3), Gabriel (2), Stefan (2), Paul, Herve, Yue