BRNESC SUFFERED A HOME DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF WATERLOO GSOB,WHO RECOREDED THEIR FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON,GOING DOWN 3 1
BOTH TEAMS STRUGGLED TO COME TO GRIPS WITH THE WET AND BLUSTERY CONDITIONS AND THE OPENING EXCHANGES WERE VERY SCRAPPY.BRNESCS MIDFIELD IN PARTICULAR WERE STRUGGLING TO GET ENOUGH P OSSESSION TO EXERT ANY INFLUENCE ON THE GAME.BRNESCS DEFENCE WERE KEEPING THEM IN THE GAME AS A SERIES OF FINE INTERCEPTIONS BY CHRIS BELL,PAUL TRIGGS AND PETER QUINTON PREVENTED ANY STRIKES ON GOAL.
SLOWLY BRNESC STARTED TO GETR INTO THE GAME AND DAVE WHITNEY AND JOE STEPHENE WERE UNSETTLING THE WATERLOO DEFENCE WITH STRONG RUNNING DOWN THE FLANKS JOE ASPINALL HAD A VOLLEY NARROWLY WIDE AND A GOALINE CLEARANCE PREVENTED PAUL FINNAN GIVING BRNESC THE LEAD DAVE WHITNEY THEN CHARGED A CLEARANCE DOWN AND SPED INTO THE BOX BUT WITH ONLYTHE KEEPER TO BEAT HE SCREWED HIS SHOT HORRIBLY WIDE WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST TESTED THE KEEPER.PAUL FINNAN THE ROSE WELL IN A CROWDED AREA TO DIRECT A STRONG HEADER WHICH THE KEEPER SAVED AT THE SECOND ATTEMPT.IT WAS ALL BRNESC AND IT SEEMED ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE A GOAL ARRIVED AND IT DID IN THE 44TH MINUTEBUT AT THE OTHEREND1!!WATERLLOO UNDER PRESSURE CL;EARED THEIR LINES WITH A LONG BALL DOWN THEIR LEFT FLANK THEIR PLAYER CHASED IT TOWARDS THE CORNER FLAG AND WAS CLOSED DOWN BY THE PURSUING CHRIS BELL WHO PUT IT OUT OF PLAY BY THE CORNER FLAG.BECAUSE IT WAS THE MELLING RD SIDE THE FENCE PREVENTED THE BALL GOING ANY FURTHER THAN 10 YDS THEY TOOK A QUICK THROW TO A UNMAKED PLAYER IN THE BOX WHO PLAYED IT BACK TO THE THROWER HE CROSSED DEEP AND THE BALL SWIRLED IN THE WIND HIT THE BACK POST AND ROLLED INTO THE NET 1 0 TO WATERLOO.IT WAS A BITTER BLOW TO GO BEHIND TO A FLUKE GOAL AFTER DOMINATING TH PRECEDING 20 MINS
STEVE HOLLOWAY GAMEB ON FOR PAUL TRIGGS WHO FELT UNWELL ,IT WAS A BLOW BECAUSE HE WAS ONE OF THE FEWW WHO HAD PLAYED WELL.BRNESC STARTED BRISKLY AND CARRIED THE GAME TO WATERLOO.DAVE WHITNEY HAD 2 GREAT CHANCES HITTING THE PRONE KEEPERR AFTER A TYPICAL RUN INTO THE BOX AND THEN SHOOTING WIDE, JOE ASPINALL PUT A SHOT NARROWLY WIDE AS BRNESC PRESSED FOR THE EQUALISER.DISASTER STRUCK IN THE 60 MINUTE WHEN FROM A RICOCHET THE BALL FELL KINDLY INTO THE PATH OF A WATERLOO FORWARD WHO SPED INTO THE BOX MATTY NAGLE WAS LATE WITH HIS DIVE AND BROUGHT THE PLAYER DOWN PEN ANMD RED CARD FOR MATTY, BROTHER DARREN CAME ON BUT COULNT PREVENT THE GOAL 2 0 TO WATERLOO
BRNESC SHRUGGED OFF THE GOAL AND THE FACT THAT THEY WERE DOWN TO 10 MEN AND LAID SEIGE TO THE WATERLOO GOAL DAVE WHITNEY HAD ANOTHER CHANCE BUT CHIPPED THE BLL TAMELY INTO THE KEEPERS HANDS IN THE 70 MIN PAUL FINNAN TUNED WELL IN THE BOX BUT PUT HIS SHOT AGONIZLNGLY WIDE AT THE OTHER END IN A ISOLATED ATTACK WATERLOO MADE IT 3 0 WHEN THEY FORCED THE BALL HOME AFTER A GOALMOUTH SCAMBLE.BRNESC STILL POURED FORWARD AND JOE ASPINALL AND STEVE HOOLOWAY PUT SHOTS NARROWLY OVER THE BAR WITH THE KEEPER BEATEN FINALLY 5 MINS FROM THE END FROM A PETER QUINTON ,WHO HAD BEEN BRNESC BEST PLAYER,PLAYED A FINE FREEKICK INTO THE BOX AND THE FINEST OF TOUCHES BY PAUL FINNAN TOOK IT PAST THE KEEPER AND INTO THE NET 3 1.
IT WAS A STRANGE GAME BRNESC PLATING WELL ONLY IN PATCHES HAD 8 GOOD CHANCES ,DAVE WHITNEY ALONE HAD 4,AND TOOK ONLY 1 WATERLOO HAD BESIDES THE PEN 2 BUT TOOK THEM ALL TO LEAVE BRNESC EMPTY HANDED AND RUING THE MISSED CHANCES.
