The team settled down and dominated for a long period but failed to make it count. A good ball from Matt let Haydn in on the edge of the penalty area, after some superb skill he passed to Ben who was out wide and a fantastic low shot flew under the keeper and into the far corner of the net. Soon after the restart a long Hythe ball shot over the heads of our defence and surely this would be 2-1; but possibly one touch too many allowed James to come out and make an outstanding block with his feet and it remained 2-0. The game remained evenly matched all the way until the half time whistle.

We went out for the second half full of confidence but Hythe dominated for a long spell and some brilliant defending by Jack and crunching tackles from Josh allowed us to step out and put more pressure on Hythe. Then quick thinking led to Tom chipping their attack and the ball was received by Rhys; after a few quick steps down the line he played it inside to Joseph. Joseph played an early ball through to Haydn and some brilliant timing meant that he was two yards ahead of the defence and not off-side. This left him one on one with the keeper, who was quick to come out and block him but Jon was close by. The ball bounced straight to him, he took it round the outside of the keeper and smashed it into the open net.

Baddesley were starting to get to grips with the off-side rule and very soon after our third goal, a fantastic through ball from Jon this time fell to Sam and he made no mistake by slotting the ball into the bottom corner in yet another one on one. We were begining to settle for 4-0 but there was no rest as Hythe kept on attacking. After a great tackle from Marley the ball was picked up by Tom and a fantastic ball down the line to a perfectly timed run from Michael led to him taking on their left back and putting an excellent cross into Jon. Jon once again secured another goal by carefully slotting it into the tight gap between the goal keeper and the near post.

Hythe still didn't give up and kept on challenging our defence and yet another solid tackle from Josh sent the ball spinning in the air. This left Rhys with a difficult ball to control but he made it look easy and strode down the left wing, almost half the length of the pitch. Brilliant vision meant that he picked out Michael who was steaming into the far post unnoticed by the Hythe defence. He had timed the run just right which left him with a simple volley into the half open net and secured a promising 6-0 victory for Baddesley.