Friday, 12 February 2010

Guildford Saints 1 Fleet Town Colts 1 - Fleet win 4-2 on penalties

Plate heartbreak for lack lustre Saints this weekend as they lost to Fleet in a penalty shoot out. This was Kevin's take on the game;

"Saints lost this quarter final after a totally inept first half display against a Fleet side who put a lot more effort into their game. Legs were being slashed at the ball, headers not watched and possession wasted. It was just a horrible display! Yes we had chances which we didn’t take but, overall, Fleet deserved to take the lead as once again we failed to clear and a Fleet player put the ball home off the post. A big half time talk was needed and delivered.


In fact, the second half didn’t really take off until Connor took to the field and almost immediately we scored when the ball was played wide left, Tom R crossed and Mike powered home a shot. We were camped in their area for most of the second half but just could not find a way through a packed defence. However, we nearly won it when Ben was free at the back post but the 'keeper saved. Josh pulled off a great save near the end too but 1-1 final score and in to extra time. We only played 5 minutes each way at the insistence of the Fleet manager but the only real chance was thwarted by the Fleet linesman!


This time the penalty shoot out didn’t go our way with Josh getting nowhere near their penalties and both Tom and Martin failing to convert after Alex M and Matt had scored with theirs."


Man of the Match - Connor Duke

1 comment:

  1. this is kevins veiw ,but i feel i must be watching a different game ,saints did make a few mistakes but that purely reflects on the lack of training and the the boys should be working as a team but no training means lack of communcation between the boys is lost ,the ref was really not aware was was happening on the pitch half the time ,the game was end to end and as to the penalty shoot out they did 4 very good penalty but PRATICE MAKES PERFECT,well done saints for being committed and going out on a sunday ,i think failing is a wrong word to use in this report

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