Leigh Town v Corinthians
3(0) v 1(1)
Essex Junior Cup
11/12/10
Although today’s game ended up a loss, in many ways it didn’t feel like one. We created more chances, had more saved, played the better football and yet we ended up losing. It’s hard for people to accept a loss like this and I can see why but we have to remember a few things. We haven’t played together for 3 weeks, we were frustrated by a keeper on form and we conceded two extremely sloppy goals to lose.
In the first half we started alright, with Shane and mike getting a lot of joy down the right hand side. We were not able to make the break through and missed the target at least three times. The defence held strong and very few clear cut chances were actually created by our opponents. It’s true to say we were in second gear but that might have been because we felt the game was comfortable.
Matty Atko was playing out of his skin down the Left also and for about 70 minuets could be argued he was our MoM. Our goal though came through the left hand side when parker went on a run and didn’t stop till he toe poke past the keeper whom was going the wrong way. Game on and confidence flowed our shape had to then change to compensate Leigh Towns resurgence but we managed till half time and I felt we were good for our lead.
Second half though was a different story we slow to start and slow to get to speed. Again we were frustrated by Leigh towns keeper who made great saves to stop us from taking a commanding lead, the one most memorable was from Shane who nut- megged 3 guys ran on and smashed it on the outside of his foot for the keeper to dive to his right and push it out for a corner.
I think we need the second goal and we push hard, down goes Kempy in the middle with a bad tackle on his knee and in go two goals which were so sloppy it felt like we game them a Xmas present and a birthday present all at once………Game now a lot harder. Leigh town sat deeper and just countered on us and we didn’t give up. Again their goal keeper was to blame for our loss, a fantastic save from Dan H basically took the stuffing right out of us and then when I changed it around and played with 3 at the back and 3 up front, we go and let in another extremely soft one to round off a weak second half.
It will be better because we are better and in al truth I don’t care much for this cup just the league and the league cup, we need to let the league know how good we are and we do that by beating al that are around us not those from miles away. The season continues next week away to Shoebury at cupids, changes will happen and the results will come with the efforts such as this one lads to be ready and be up fro it so we can get the winning attitude back and push on for some thing better than a limp second half performance.
Name
Rating
Scored
Cards
Mom
Karl
6.5
Andy
7
Frosty
7
Ewan
7
Charlie
6.5
Parker
7
Kempy
7
Mike E
7
Shane
7
Matt A
7
x
Dan H
7
Ben A
6.5
Ant
7
