West Bridgford Dynamos 0 Hucknall Sports U13's 7
Saturday 19th February 2005
AN EASY WIN FOR HUCKNALL
In the shadows of the
dilapidated, once very popular Chateau family restaurant, Hucknall arrived on a
bright but bitterly cold wintry afternoon to take on the Dynamos of West
Bridgford.
Hucknall started in confident
form settling into a familiar forward stance deep in the Bridgford half and took
only 4 minutes to open their account. A
charge down the left on this undulating pitch pinned Ross Lamb against the
corner flag who miraculously to everyone’s amazement managed to back out along
the touchline, turn and poke a cross over the open face of goal, for the ball to
then curl untouched, except by the wind, into the far corner of the net.
The Dynamos ‘keeper must have been particularly distraught when 4
minutes later Hucknall’s Sam Sims carbon copied the exact same shot to give
the visitors a fine 2 goal lead.
Ed Roe’s starting line début
got off to a particularly flying start, when on 24 minutes a touch on through
from Sam Sims brought him on target placing the ball just beyond the
outstretched fingertips of the ‘keeper to bulge the net.
Good fortune fell again to Ed just before the stroke of halftime when a
spilled Vijay Digpal strike fell nicely to make easy pickings.
West Bridgford were pretty will pinned into their own half during the
first period, though were swift to break when the rare opportunity occurred,
managing to rattle the Hucknall post just as the half time whistle blew.
West Bridgford seemed to be
lacking the ‘Weetabix’ factor in their match preparation, and struggled to
mount any significant attack on the Hucknall goal in the second half, leaving
the visitors free to continue their domination of the game, taking only 7
minutes from the restart to further their lead.
Digpal breaking his marker down the left flank skillfully crossed it in
to the unmarked Harry Beal, who had the time to bring the ball down and pick his
spot, taking his season’s tally to a round dozen. 3 minutes later a Ross Lamb effort connected sweetly for the
advancing Danny Jones to tee up a shot and neatly tuck it away past the Dynamos
‘keeper.
Just on the hour, Digpal broke again only to be closed down releasing the ball back to Ross Lamb who squared it inside to the advancing Daniel Warner who in turn played it on to Man-of-the-Match Ed Roe to complete his Hatrick. Another clean sheet for the Hucknall ‘keeper Josh Priesley, his 6th in the league, who was well glad of the final whistle, as he was starting to feel very cold, and a bit left out of the game.