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15's Scottish Cup Quarter Final

Falkirk Under 15's travelled to Glasgow Green to take on Baillieston in the Scottish Cup quarter final.

The game was mostly one way in the first half with Baillieston taking the game to Falkirk. Scoring half way through the first half it took Baillieston 3 minutes to score three goals. All three goals came from crosses that were not cleared properly by the Falkirk defence and that cost them dearly.

Falkirk tried to come back into the game but were unable to get the breaks they needed. A change was made in defence not long before half time to allow Mandie Stevenson to come on and strengthen Falkirks defence. However, Baillieston were still able to score a fourth before half time.

The second half started and Falkirk went out believing that they were perhaps not going to win, however they needed to restore their own pride. With a new formation of 3-5-2, Falkirk were stronger and were man-marking Bailliestons forwards. This allowed the midfield to come into the game more and push forward for the goal that they needed to lift themselves.

It wasn't long before Falkirk were pushing forward to get that goal and a free kick was awarded for a push on Jennifer Buchanan right outside the 18 yard box. Arlene Livingston stepped up to take the free kick and floated the ball over the keeper the into the top right hand corner. Baillieston 4 - Falkirk 1.

Bailliestons number 16 was booked for the challenge on Wee Jenny B and Falkirk were now feeling better about themselves and were playing a better game. However, a slight relapse in the Falkirk defence allowed Baillieston to break free and score a fifth goal.

Baillieston found another of their players booked for persistant fowling, however the referee was not very forthcoming with fair play and only blew the whistle when there was no way he could turn a blind eye!

The game brought about many talking points, both positive and negative for Falkirk to work on in future and they even found one of the parents having a talking to from the referee, he shall remain nameless.

From the performance Falkirk displayed in the second half they should be very proud of themselves, and take that into future games.

Team: Charlotte Workmam, Kayleigh Shanks, Cheryl Donald, Arlene Livingston (Cpt), Jennifer Dick, Jennifer Buchanan, Rachel Martin, Alex Cairns, Karen Allison, Nicole Sturrock, Danielle Weir 

Subs: Mandie Stevenson, Diane Fyfe

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