Man of the Match: Steve Bird
Goal of the Match: New life’s final goal, brilliance and arrogance to stand there and flick the ball over the goalkeeper into the corner.
Save of the Match: Dan had to adjust quickly in the first half to save down low at this near post
Moment of the Match: Bexley Athletic dissolving into an embarrassment and getting slaughtered for an hour.
Minute by minute Report
1 Minute: Immediate pressure from New life results in a corning leading to a long shot from the left saved at the near post by Dan. Resulting corner cleared.
6 minutes: After a period of New Life dominance, Bexley win a corner delivered by mark and flappiness from the New Life keeper allows Elton to roll the ball into the net for his first goal.
10 Minutes: After taking control of the game, Bexley double their advantage when Kenan crossed the ball in from the left for Kev and the defender to bundle the ball into the net.
14 Minutes: Bexley pushing forward again as Kenan looks to test the shaky New Life goalkeeper which gets deflected by a defender out for a corner. Mark’s corner flashes across the goal.
17 Minutes: Marks long shot is hit wide
22 Minutes: New life begin to get their teeth into the into the Bexley defence as a counter attack drags the back four out of position to hit a low shot saved by Dan’s legs.
25 Minutes: New life split the defence to be one vs one but fortunately for Bexley, missing the goal by a fair margin.
24 Minutes: New life pile on the pressure, player beats Steve for pace delivering a ball into the box cleared by the defence.
26 Minutes: New life pressure finally pays dividends as the pace of the attackers cause the centre backs to lose their markers and fires the ball into the net through Dan’s right hand.
28 Minutes: Again using their pace, New life were in down the left as the winger cut in and thinking he was going to cross, Dan moved his feet quickly to prevent embarrassment down at the near post.
31 Minutes: New Life again attack in numbers making Bexley look like school boys to shoot from a central position and find the net for a well deserved equaliser
34 Minutes: Bexley looking very edgy. Poor decision from Dan to come for a free kick for Kev to rescue him; clearing it off the line.
40 Minutes: Bexley crumble. Ball played missed by Sean exposing his goalkeeper as the runner ran clean through to score.
43 Minutes: Goal appears to have rattled Sean as he makes a mistake from a header for the winger to take the ball down the line and Dan to save at the near post.
Half time, lack of maturity and discipline means problems were not addressed, Bexley would pay for this in the second half.
49 Minutes: Next goal was going to be crucial, and it proved to be a hammer blow. Miss kick by Dan, left him out of position as the player got a shot off into the bottom corner.
60 Minutes: Disgraceful attitude from Bexley as many of the team decided to give up half way through the second half, letting down themselves and their team mates. Sean struggling with injury subbed for Tom with Adam slotting in at centre back.
72 Minutes: New life destroying Bexley for fun beat them for speed to score a fifth goal with just under 20 minutes remaining. Absolutely embarrassing.
75 Minutes: All New Life, Bexley can’t even keep the ball in the midfield as most of the team were feeling sorry for themselves, New Life attacked down the left and through the eye of the needle found the far corner.
77 Minutes: Summing up the entire game, New Life walked through the defence. The player had the confidence to stop and flick the ball into the top corner, Referee Ken Bailey shaking his head at the circus of players in the box adding to the ridiculous embarrassment.
7-2 full time result. Before individual start making excuses here is a fact. In the last three games we have conceded 15 goals, that’s an average of 5 goals a game! The ability of the back five has to be questioned, but it’s not beyond midfielders and strikers to defend too.
When you play any sport, before you win you have to accept and learn to lose. Is this the way we are going to respond every time we lose a lead. Its fantastic winning, but sometimes you have to battle for a victory. You have to play to the final whistle, no matter how badly you are losing, and most importantly we are all human, BUT YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILTY FOR YOUR MISTAKES INSTEAD OF PASSING THE BUCK ALL THE TIME. (I will start by accepting the fourth goal was my fault). If you can’t do this, do the players who actually put the effort in a favour, give your kit back and stay at home, we don’t want this in our team ever again.
Read the report, look how confident we was early in the game. Think what you could have done differently. You are not going to be successful with every pass, shot, tackle header etc, but its the reaction to failure which makes us so weak at the moment. We have all received an email, read it, accept it, reply to it.
Personally, unless seriously injured or working, anyone who doesn’t turn up to training in the next two weeks should be dropped no matter where they play. You can complain that we are moaning but who actually enjoyed the game today.? We are supposed to be a team of young men, but we played like kids. Grow up and learn to play sport with dignity, or stay in bed, Pete can sign new players who want to play. The only positive today was the final whistle.
Ratings, Pete and Adam averaged.
