Burpham 0 Guildford Saints 1

Saints took local bragging rights on Sunday with a hard earned victory over local rivals Burpham. Here is Kevin's match report;

"Another league game against our local rivals and, with the last result against Burpham still fresh in our minds, this was always going to be a big game!

Saints were focused and committed from the start - although this was no classic by any means. Burpham were full of hard work themselves, but we "bossed" the midfield with Alex M, Connor and Nathan all having fine games but, despite all our possession, we could not find the net in the early stages when a little more composure in front of goal would have seen us establish an early lead. We lost Joe R after 15 minutes as he was feeling unwell and Seb took his place. Connor then took a knock and was replaced by Mike D who came on to face his former club - he too was right on the pace. Josh was having little to do other than to see off a few long range efforts. Ben, Chris, Martin and Matt were superb in defence and Matt, in particular, marked his potentially dangerous opponent out of the game.

Eventually our dominance was rewarded when Tom R opened the scoring latching on to a through ball and nodding the ball around the defender before racing on to dispatch his shot across the 'keeper. 0-1 Saints

The second half was all about doing the ugly things and working hard - which is what we did with real discipline. Alex M stepped up his game and was all over the field urging his team mates on and they responded. Jamie came on for Nathan and played very well in front of the back four. Chances were limited but we did have some... Matt with a breakaway, Tom R with a couple of shots and Seb went close also. Other than at the end, when Matt got to the Burpham forward just as he shot and the ball deflected onto the bar, we were not really troubled defensively.

This was a really great battling performance against opposition who were always going to up their game today playing against their mates. A good 3 points won. Well done lads."

Men of the Match: Matt Burton & Alex Mattock