Many thanks to the Burton Albion team, officials and parents for travelling all the way to the Forest for what proved to be an exciting match on a pitch somewhat spoilt by the recent bad weather. Burton started the match pushing forward and scoring their first goal within five minutes. Gloucester held their own, Jed Martin weaved his way through to try for goal but was closed down by Burton as he tried to open up gloucester's account. Burton kept up the pressure and would have scored a few more goals early on if it wasn't for the excellent skills of the gloucester goalkeeper, Jake Underwood. To be fair, Burton had the best of the first half putting two more goals in the net. Gloucester kept their heads up and Ben Simmonds cut inside two Burton players to pass to Joe Parker who took a magnificent shot at goal which the Burton goalkeeper kept out. Aidan Creighton picked up the pace and ran a good half of the pitch chasing down a Burton player and managed to push the ball to safety before Burton could convert the chance into a goal. By half time Burton were in the lead with three goals to nil. After an inspiring half time talk by the their coach Gloucester went back out onto the pitch with renewed energy and dominated the second half putting the pressure on Burton right from the start. Both teams had many shots which were too high, too wide etc and both teams tested the others goal keepers throughout the second half. A penalty given to Burton Albion gave them their fourth goal and a brilliant run by Ashley Brown down the wing resulted in a Gloucester goal . Both Burton Albion and Gloucester City should be proud of the way their players played today and how they conducted themselves on and off the pitch.