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League Winners!

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  League Winners!   02/03/2022, Wyncote Sports Grounds:   Today’s game was crucial. UOLFC men’s 1 st team needed a win on order to win the league (a draw or loss would not have been enough). UOLFC won by the smallest of margins: 1-0, to win the league. It was a game of two halves, with a first half which was quite closed with not many clear chances for either team and big chance for UOLFC   in the second half. It was also a physical game with both teams being aggressive in challenges as they both had something to fight for. John Moore’s were fighting to stay up and University of Liverpool were fighting for the league title and promotion.   1 st Half:   Both teams had a lot to play for and the two UOLFC centre backs made sure to establish dominance from the get-go in the first minute with two consecutive solid clearances. The first moment of danger for UOLFC came in the 2 nd minute when Toby Cogswell pressed the John Moores keeper after a John...
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  UOL Men’s first team knocked out of the cup in the quarterfinals, Lancaster University through to the semi-finals.   09/02/2022, Lancaster University Sports Grounds: University of Liverpool’s first team were looking to get through to the semi-finals of the cup today against Lancaster. Having lost earlier in the season against the same team UOLFC were highly determined to avenge this loss and further their chances of additional silverware this season. The first game earlier this season saw UOL lose 4-2 with Lancaster applying a very high press early in the game. Added injuries and key players being unavailable in the first game were some of the mitigating factors in the first game that weren’t an issue today which gave Coach Jack Edwards more optimism before the game. 1 st Half: Louis Jarvis got the first real chance of the game in the 4 th minute. Liverpool looked much more composed on the ball than Lancaster in the early game. Liverpool got the better phases o...