U-13 Cup Final Larbert v St Mungo's

St. Mungos 4-1 Larbert

29^th March 2016 Recreation Park Alloa

The U-13 Larbert High Squad get ready for their big match against St Mungo's

St.Mungos were too strong for a fighting Larbert side as they won the cup final 4-1 at Recreation Park. Larbert had an aggressive start getting a shot away in the box early in the game but it went over the bar. In the opening 10 minutes Larbert were looking the better team and pushing St. Mungos into their own half. The St. Mungos defence was solid and they were shutting down every attack most of which were started by Larbert’s Kieran Hall and Murray Brown.

In the first half Murray Brown was controlling the game for Larbert and making chances for the attackers. However in the 22^nd minute St Mungo’s Liam Fagan got a shot away from a goal mouth scramble and put St Mungo’s in the lead, it was very poor defending from Larbert. After the goal St. Mungos started to control the game for the rest of the first half.

 

In the second half larbert made one sub at half time bringing Bobby Reynolds on for Kinloch Galloway. St.mungos made a very good attacking start, they should have scored a goal but larbert played a tight defense to try and stop St Mungo’s going forward. Moments later Liam Johnston broke through the Larbert defense and scored a very good goal. St.Mungos should have scored again but hit the bar. Larbert then made another sub Aaron Wilson coming on for Fraser Crawford. Just after the substitution Liam Johnston broke through the larbert defense again and scored his second of the match. On the 50^th minute mark larbert high won a freekick just outside the box, Kieran Hall stepped up and curled a spectatular strike into the top corner to make the score 1-3.

 

A couple of minutes later St.Mungo’s recieved two yellow cards one after another. Thre minutes later Robbie Simpson got on the end of a cross and tapped it in to put St Mungo’s out of sight. Then Lewis Johnston missed a great chance to add to St Mungo’s lead and bag himself a hatrick.

In the dying minutes Larbert High got a corner it was an excellent ball but a poor shot in the end. Then the full time whistle went, the larbert players were distraught and  the st.mungos players were  joyous.

 

The St Mungo's pick up the trophy after a deserved win and a convincing 4-1 victory

 

 Before the match we spoke to Larbert Captain Murray Brown, the St.Mungo’s coach and the ref. Firstly we interviewed Murray Brown. We said “how are you and your team feeling before the game?” he quoted “We are feeling confident and strong, hopefully we can win the game”. The st.mungos coach said “ we are feeling optimistic and we are going to treat it like a normal game”. We spoke to the ref before the game and he said “ I hope there is no controversy, I want it to be a good flowing game with no injuries”. We then asked him what the best game he has ever refereed he said “ it was probably the British Police Cup Final”.

by Mark McGuire and Calum Grant