gritty cup win earns us last 16 place
a hard fought typical cup game saw us edge through 2-1 at a very cold clubmoor . we started the game a bit slower than normal allowing ashburn in almost immediately only for robbo to pull off a good save ,he also dealt expertly with a couple of difficult crosses and his handling remained good all game.in fact it took us until te 21st minute until we created our first real chance when a great through ball from potter ,who played a real captains role,fed kav who hurried his shot wide when he had more time than he thought he then was put through only to be denied by a good block by their keeper.they didnt defend any crosses into the box well with the keeper looking nervous and thats how we opened the scoring when farrell put another excellent cross in and the defender rose first to head past the keeper (an own goal and not yours kev!) this seemed to deflate them for a while and we dominated for the rest of the half.
we carried on in the same fashion from the start of the second period and in the firat minute telf burst past 2 defenders only to smash the ball against the bar from 10 yards,we carried on attacking just having to defend against the odd long ball to 2 fast forwards but we didnt let anything past.the second goal finally came when ross dribbled past three defenders in the box put couldnt get his shot away the ball fell to kav who smashed it into the net. this should have made the game safe but we seemed to relax and let them back into it. they scored on 70 mins when kav lost the ball around the half way line which was punted upfield mike didnt deal with it properly and the forward ran through to score.this seemed to be our cue to sit deeper and let them come onto us for the last twenty minutes. we should have had a penalty when telf was taken out in the box but this was levelled up near the end when mike seemingly tripped their forward in the box but the ref waved play on indicating he dived .we made a couple of changes due to knocks for john and farrell who both had good games tony just being pipped for mom by robbo who 1 misjudgement in the first half allowing the ball to hit the post was,excellent.
we kept them at bay for those last ten nervous minutes to progress into the last 16 of the county cup not bad when it started with around 120 teams are still unbeaten and got some good unexpected news in a couple of league games. we can play better than this but in cup games a win is a win so back to the league next week for the short trip across clubmoor to the next pitch where we will see the return of our football for 90 minutes and if we do we will take another three points towards our promotion bid. we just better make sure we all get there with the right attitude and thanks to the lads who turned up again without getting on its a long season and hopefully with lots of cup games so we will need you all at some stage ,its just great looking at such a strong subs bench every week.
