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MATCH REPORT:
Brandon United (Away): NL Div 2, 19th September
2009.
F/T : Lost 2 - 1
Scorers: - Thompson (pen)
With Brendan
Ledgeway away on holiday, former junior keeper
Adam Norman made his senior debut. The only
other absentee was Rob Jones so Owen Dixon
regained his place on the left wing.
We started the
match trying to play our passing game which
wasn’t easy given the uneven surface of the
Welfare Park pitch.
Brando created the
first chance of the game after four minutes when
the broke away from a Marske free kick. With
Mark Taylor and Stuart Jackson struggling to get
back, Stephen Fothergill found himself in space
on the right but fired over from the edge of the
18 yard box.
With ten minutes
gone, Brandon keeper Ian Myers’ only way of
beating Benn Thompson to a long ball over the
top was to handball it outside the box, escaping
with just a yellow card.
Marske’s early
dominance paid dividents on 24 minutes when Owen
Dixon broke away down the left wing and made his
was into the box. A slight nudge in the back
from a Brandon defender saw Dixon loose his
balance and Thompson stepped up to coolly slot
home the resulting penalty.
Two minutes later
Dixon beat two men on the right and cut inside
but his shot found its way straight into the
arms of Myers.
On 28 minutes Carl
Chillingsworth got onto the end of a Thompson
header and showed some nice touches to get past
John Guy before being brought down just outside
the box. Jackson’s free kick was not worth the
wait as he sliced his shot wide.
Derek Bradley was
doing well down the right hand side and cleverly
got past Lee Newby on 34 minutes but having made
his way into the box, failed to deliver a decent
cross.
Josh Myers picked
up a loose ball on the edge of the penalty area
on 42 minutes but Myers tipped his looping shot
onto the bar and Chillingsworth was somehow
given offside for collecting the rebound.
Chillinsworth went
close with a low shot from the edge of the box
on 44 minutes and found himself through on goal
a minute later with the best chance of the
half. With just Myers to beat he snatched his
shot wide of the goal from 15 yards.
Deep into first
half injury time Thompson broke forward and
squared to Chillingsworth who failed to get the
ball under control properly and Myers managed to
block it, then 30 later he was in the right
place again but failed to put his header on
target from a Dixon cross.
Half-time: Brandon
United 0v1 Marske United
Brandon’s first
chance of the game to put the ball into the box
didn’t come until the 59th minute as
Adam Norman was enjoying a very quiet debut.
Bradley almost sliced the cross into his own
net, as it hit the bar and bounced down just on
the pitch side of the line before being cleared
to safety by Jackson.
Spurred on by this,
Brandon put together a decent move on 61 minutes
that ended with Thomas Fothergill blasting a
shot over the bar on the half volley from the
side of the box.
Chillingsworth went
close to scoring again on 64 minutes. Steve
Cochrane and Dixon combined to take a short
corner and Chillingsworth glanced a header
narrowly wide after a push in the back from Adam
Laidlaw. To be fair, the referee was unsighted,
and had no option but to turn the penalty
appeals down.
We finally had the
ball in the net on 70 minutes as Thompson
challenged Myers for an Adam Blair Cross. Dixon
slotted home the rebound but Thompson was
adjudged to have fouled Myers.
Chillingsworth
turned his man in the box on 73 minutes but this
time chose to set up Thompson. He failed to get
it under control and the ball bobbled back to
Chillingsworth whose close range shot was tipped
round the post by Myers.
Marske were made to
pay for all their missed chances when Liam
Bramley jinked his way through the box before
sending a quality looping shot over Norman from
15 yards with only six minutes remaining.
Things only got
worse for us as we conceded a goal in the final
minute of the match for the second week
running. Myers gathered a corner from Cochrane,
and with Jackson and Taylor both up for it, we
got caught on the break, Philip Robinson firing
past Norman from 15 yards.
Full-time:
Brandon United 2v1 Marske United
This was a
devastating result after dominating play for the
majority of the match. We could have easily
been four or five nil up by half-time and were
made to pay for our missed chances. Credit must
be given to the young Brandon side though who
never gave up and kept going right until the end
to gain an unlikely three points.
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