MATCH REPORTS
Congratulations to the school football team for their second round victory in the Bexley Schools Cup.
Goals from Jessie, James, Alex and hat-rick hero William led to a 6-1 win.
The cup takes a break for the winter and restarts in February 2024.
Thursday 5th October v Days Lane Primary
Congratulations to the school football team for a tremendous performance in the first round of the Bexley Cup.
With a 1-1 draw after extra time the game went to penalties. Merton Court won 4-3 with Billy scoring the winning penalty.
An excellent hard working performance which was particularly impressive as we had lots of last minute injuries, plus excellent opposition to play.
Thanks to Days Lane for hosting us.
Player of the Day: Alex
Squad: Kavan, Isaiah, Joshua, Lucas, Alex, Adess, Billy
Congratulations to the S2 girls for playing in their first ever football festival!
The girls played six games with everyone contributing to a great team performance.
Thank you to Eltham College for organising.
Date: Wednesday 15th March 2023
Sport: Girls Football
Opposition: Breaside
Year Group: S3/S4
Venue: away
Squad: Ayla, Ava, Gretchen, Isla, Ekam, Evie, Jessie, Eleanor, and Emily
Results: Merton Court 0 – 1 Breaside
Player(s) of the match: Jessie
Captains: Evie
A good strong performance, a lot of possession of the ball, some good opportunities for scoring but no product. A good defensive play kept a good shape.
Date: Tuesday 31st January
Year group: S4
Opposition: St Christopher’s The Hall
Squad: Max, Louie A, Rafi, Harry, Noah, Louie P, Eddie, Shaheer, Eshan, Isaac
Well done to S4 for a superb team performance. Goals from Louie, Rafi, Harry and Max, plus a Player of the Match performance from Noah.
Date: Monday 30th January
Year group: S1
Opposition: St Christopher’s The Hall
Congratulations to S1 on playing their first ever football fixture. Excellent defending and tackling from all players, plus a penalty save from Elliot! Tremendous team spirit throughout.
Squad: Harry, Yuvraj, Aanjaney, Toby, Rahul, Elias, Phoenix, Freddie, Max, Seb
Date: 24.11.21
Yeargroup:S1
Opposition: St Christopher’s The Hall
The S1 rugby team had the pleasure of playing their first ever rugby fixture against St Christopher’s The Hall!
Mr Jones was impressed to see how much the team has learnt at their after-school club. It was great to see their running skills in attack and their hard work in defence.
Well done everyone!
Squad: Oscar Chislett, Thiago Constantino, Billy Corrigan, Charlie Darsey, Arjan Gill, James Hargreaves, Logan Lewis, Michael Mitev-Rathayke, Parker Stokes.
Date: 24.11.21
Yeargroup: S2
Opposition: St Christopher’s The Hall
The S2 rugby team and Mr Egan had the pleasure of hosting St Christopher’s The Hall for a non-contact tag rugby fixture.
Mr Egan was impressed by the number of talented boys and girls we have in the rugby squad and was equally impressed with their positive attitude towards each other, the opposition and to playing the game in the right spirit. Well done!
It was great to see the children reap the rewards of attending their after-school club where they have been developing their game understanding and skills.
Squad: Anay Banerjee, William Chislett, Jessie Gayler, Eleanor Hammerton, Amrit Lalli, James Mott, Timi Olupitan, Adess Sahota, Lucas Sukevicius, Callum White
Date: 11.11.21
Yeargroup: S4
Opposition: West Lodge
Mr Jones had the pleasure of taking our S4 football squad to a fixture with West Lodge.
Having fought our way through some heavy Sidcup High Street traffic we arrived just in time to get ourselves organised and warmed up.
The team played positively throughout and were very comfortable working together in their formation. They implemented their simple game play for the day, which was to take lots more shots on goal!
They were rewarded almost immediately with a goal from a wide angle from Elijah. Elijah followed this up with a second goal and was supported on the goal scoring front by Rishi and Charlie who both scored two each to make the final score 6-0.
This was the team’s first win of the season and showed the rewards of positive team-work. The boys can look forward to another game in the next round of the cup after Christmas.
Player of the Day: Charlie Wilson
Squad: Tommaso Etemi, Freddie Kite, Rishi Kholsa, Elijah Mwenya, Vishal Nagasundhar, Oliver Steel-Squires, Charlie Wilson.
Date: 13.10.21
Yeargroup: S4
Opposition: Eastcote Primary
Mr Jones and Mr Mullin had the pleasure on Wednesday of taking our S4 football squad to a fixture with Eastcote Primary.
We arrived early giving Mr Mullin some time for a great warm up and chat about team tactics. We started brightly but unfortunately conceded three goals in the first half from long balls “over the top” that were well finished by the Eastcote attack.
The team played positively and maturely passing the ball well and looking to create opportunities for each other. Unfortunately, we had one of those days were if we had played for four hours we probably wouldn’t have scored! We hit the post multiple times and despite having the lion’s share of possession and territory in the second half we simply couldn’t get the ball over the goal line.
The full-time team talk was full of positive comments of how the players had performed and that whilst Eastcote were worthy winners perhaps the score line wasn’t a fair reflection of how well the boys had played.
Everyone contributed positively to the team with Elijah Mwenya our standout player of the day for his powerful runs forward from the right side of defence.
Player of the Day: Elijah Mwenya
Squad: Tommaso Etemi, Freddie Kite, Rishi Kholsa, Elijah Mwenya, Vishal Nagasundhar, Oliver Steel-Squires, Charlie Wilson
Date: 01.10.21
Yeargroup: S4
Opposition: Royal Park
Mr Jones, Mr Egan and Mr Price had the pleasure on Friday of taking our S4 football squad to a fixture with Royal Park School.
We were a little slow to get started and conceded an early goal, but the boys soon got into things and enjoyed playing some positive passing football in what was a very competitive fixture.
Despite conceding a tremendous direct free kick by Royal Park we fought back to take the game to 2-1 with a cracking team goal expertly finished by Rishi.
At half time the boys realised that they were playing a little deep and needed to be more positive and play the game, in the opposition half. As soon as they did this it was a different game with us having lots of possession and territory, but unfortunately we ran out of time and Royal Park were deserved 3-1 winners.
Everyone contributed positively to the team with Freddie Kite our standout player of the day for his tremendous defending at the back.
Player of the Day: Freddie Kite
Squad: Aidan Chan, Tommaso Etemi, Freddie Kite, Rishi Kholsa, Dilan Mehmet, Elijah Mwenya, Vishal Nagasundhar, Oliver Steel-Squires, Charlie Wilson.
Date: 20.9.21
Yeargroup: S4
Opposition: St Dunstan’s & Babington House
Mr Jones and Mr Egan had the pleasure on Monday of taking our S4 football squad to a triangular festival with Babington House and St. Dunstan’s.
It was exciting to see the boys enjoying being back on the pitch playing competitive sports with other schools. Understandably, after such a long break from our last fixture, we took a little while to get going but we were soon playing with confidence and adapting to our “total football” style of formation and player positions.
The boys confidently took the opportunity to play every minute of the two games and played in a variety of positions using a positive passing style.
Game one against St Dunstan’s was a 1-1 draw, with a goal from Elijah Mwenya.
Game two saw a 4-0 win against Babington House, with goals from Freddie Kite, Rishi Kholsa, and Tommaso Etemi (2).
Player of the Day: Rishi Kholsa
Squad: Aidan Chan, Tommaso Etemi, Freddie Kite, Rishi Kholsa, Dilan Mehmet, Elijah Mwenya, Vishal Nagasundhar, Charlie Wilson.
Date: Wednesday 27th February 2020
Year Group: S4
Venue: Upton
Opposition: Upton
Team Tom, Artie, Oliver De, Oliver M, Joshua, Zain, Joe B, Joseph C, William, Louis
Results:
Lost 3-0
Players of the match: Tom for outstanding goalkeeping and Louis for solid defending.
Captain: Artie
Date: Wednesday 12th February
Sport: Football
Year Group: S4
Venue: Merton Court
Opposition: Bickley Park
Team– Tom, Artie (c), Louie, Oliver Del, Barry, Will, Herbie, Zain, Ollie Mc, Joshua, Shayen
Results:
1-1 Goal scorer – Joshua
Player of the match:
Tom
An evenly fought contest between two good sides!
Merton Court started the game very strongly, scoring within the first ten minutes of the game from a fantastic strike from Joshua who turned two defenders in the box before calmly slotting the ball home. Louie and Artie dictated the game for most of the first half and their commanding presence at the back meant that Merton Court went into half time with a deserved 1-0 lead.
The second half saw Bickley Park have the majority of the possession and they peppered the Merton Court goal mouth for most of the early stages of the half and if it had not been for two fantastic saves in quick succession from Tom the game would have been level. Despite the relentless defending from Merton Court, Bickley Park finally had their equaliser after a scramble in the box saw the opposition’s striker bundle the ball home. Merton Court dominated the final five minutes of the encounter and Louie almost won his side the game with a strike from 20 yards just clearing the goalkeeper’s crossbar. A fair result well played!
Date: Monday 27th January
Sport: Football
Year Group: S1
Venue: Merton Court
Opposition: St Christopher’s
Team (Red) – Isaac, Danny, Ashley, Edward, Max, Rafi, Louie, Eshan
Team (Gold) – Karam, Joseph, Jacob, Ethan, Rohan, Shaheer, Lucas
Results: Match Abandoned due to torrential rain. (Although Gold were winning 2-0)
Date: Monday 27th January
Sport: Football
Year Group: S1
Venue: Merton Court
Opposition: St Christopher’s
Team (Red) – Isaac, Danny, Ashley, Edward, Max, Rafi, Louie, Eshan
Team (Gold) – Karam, Joseph, Jacob, Ethan, Rohan, Shaheer, Lucas
Results: Match Abandoned due to torrential rain. (Although Gold were winning 2-0)
Date: 13/02/2019
Sport: Football
Opposition: Farringtons
Year Group: S3
Venue: Merton Court (Rectory Arena)
Squad: Tom, Oli D, William, Shayen, Herbie, Joshua, Oli M
Results: Won 8-1
Player(s) of the match: Oli D / William
Captain(s): Oli D
An emphatic win from the Merton Court S3 team. Goals coming from a host of players, an excellent team work ethic and consistent desire to succeed.
Date: 13/02/2019
Sport: Football
Opposition: Farringtons
Year Group: S4
Venue: Merton Court (Rectory Arena)
Squad: Archie, Mahaan, Damien, George, Joshua, Tyler, Max, Harrison, Sam, Hudson, Derin
Results: Lost 0-1
Player(s) of the match: Tyler
Captain(s): Archie
A very close encounter between two local sides. The result could have gone either way. Some heroic keeping from skipper Archie and resolute defending from Joshua, Tyler, Hudson and Max kept the scores level for much of the game.
Only for a lack of concentration and a huge kick from the Farringtons keeper; saw the ball bounce over the Merton Court defenders’ heads into the path of the Farringtons centre forwards to slide home the winner with only minutes to go.
A physical game on the whole. Merton Court now need to improve their resilience and maintain their desire to win the ball throughout the whole game and also convert their chances into goals.
Date: 23/01/2019
Sport: Football
Opposition: Bickley Park
Year Group: S4
Venue: Merton Court (Rectory Arena)
Squad: Archie, Mahaan, Damien, George, Joshua, Tyler, Max, Harrison, Sam, Hudson
Results: Lost 2-4
Player(s) of the match: Harrison
Captain (s): Archie
A great game of football to watch with excellent skills and determination on show from both teams.
Bickley Park took the lead only for the tireless Harrison to race down the wing on the counter attack. After cutting inside he pulled the ball back to Damien to equalise with a first time shot.
Bickley scored another two goals only for Damien managing to complete his brace. In the dying moments George nearly round off an amazing comeback only for a fine save from the Bickley Park keeper. In the final Bickley Park attack, they managed to seal their victory with a well taken breakaway goal.
Special mentions must go to Hudson who filled in for injured Goalkeeping Skipper Archie. Joshua for another great defensive display and a Man of the Match performance from Harrison who constantly posed a threat to the Bickley Park defence while managing to consistently track back to help his own.
Date: 21/01/2019
Sport: Football – QF Bexley Minor Cup
Opposition: St Peter Chanel
Year Group: S3/S4
Venue: Merton Court (Rectory Arena)
Squad: Archie B, Mahaan L, Damien O, George P, Joshua A, Harrison B, Oli D,
Artie H, William L
Results: Won 2-1
Player(s) of the match: Joshua/Mahaan
Captain (s): Archie
A solid performance from the whole team. S3 players stepped up and made their case to be selected for the Semi-Final.
Joshua was fantastic in marshalling the defence, keeping the powerful attack of St Peter Chanel at bay.
Mahaan managed to score a brace, with the winner coming in the dying moments of the game.
Harrison must have covered every played of grass on what was a big pitch for a 7-a-side fixture.
An enjoyable game and a lot to look forward to.