East Middlesbrough 1 Darlington FC Youth U12s 3

The lads kept up their great run and season so far by beating a hard working East Boro side to keep up their promotion push!!

Darlington started well and the opposition had to dig deep and battle hard to stay on level terms as Darlo had five chances to go in front but the Boro keeper made some crucial saves especially from Harry Dixon and Jojo Crumpton.

Darlo were unlucky not to score when Chrissy Walters header was cleared off the line!! Just before half time Boro broke away down the left as the unfortunate Campbell got injured and a cross was tapped in to stun Darlo and make it 1-0 to Boro.

Darlo came out for the second half and pressed well with Fynn in goal organising the back line of players who were solid throughout including Clark, Gibson, Waites, Davidson and Campbell.

The midfield lads of Crumpton, Keating and Moncur all got on the ball feeding great passes forward for Walters and Dixon who both looked a threat every time but the equaliser came after another pinpoint corner was met on the run by Oli Clark who headed past the keeper for 1-1.

Darlo now sensed with 20 minutes to go they could win again and when the ball fell to Davidson, he played a great ball for the lively Chrissy Walters to run through, nicked it past the keeper and drove the ball into the net for 2-1 then with Moncur getting a lot of the ball and feeding the front it was Darlo looking to make it 3 and it came when Keating outpaced two defenders and when going round the keeper, was brought down for a penalty which Callum Moncur cooly placed into the corner of the net to ease the nerves of the lads and make the final score a deserved 3-1 win for Darlo !!

Still only beaten once this season and right in the push for a top two finish well done boys.

MOTM was Chrissy Walters for a non-stop energetic performance up front which also seen himself get on the score sheet too.