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Old 05-16-2011, 11:20 PM   #304
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
February 14th, 2015

Woking(14-5-12, 10th) @ Port Vale(19-7-5, 2nd)


Port Vale are 4:7 favorites at their place. We're 4:1 to win. We've never beaten them, 0-1-2 in the last year and a half. We did manage a tie at our place earlier this year. James Lawrie has 31 goals for them, Massimo Fischnaller has 11 goals.

GK: Lynch
D: Nikolaou/Williams/Cooper/Ogogo
DMC: Taylor
MC: Upson/O'Sullivan
AM: Collins/Kenny
ST: Harsanyi

I don't want to bench Harsanyi but I want to get Collins back into the mix, so this is where we end up. We'll come out defending today.

16': James Lawrie scores his 32nd goal. Way too easy, a pass to the penalty spot in from the right, he's unmarked, way to go defense! 0-1

20': Cross in from the left by Lawrie, Signorelli, a right midfielder, beats Nikolaou for the header... and directs it near post for their second goal. 0-2

36': We have our first offensive highlight, earning a corner, its taken short to Williams, he controls it but doesn't shoot, passing instead and earning corner #2. Second corner is a header over the bar by Cooper. That's our first shot of the match.

40': Yellow for defender O'Hanlon, a tackle on Harsanyi just outside the area. Free kick goes nowhere.

HALF: They are just far better than us. Our defense except for Cooper are all in the 5.5 range, just playing poorly. They shoot 9 times putting 6 on target. We shoot twice, none on target yet.

48': Mike Williams with a foul just outside their area, they earn a corner on the free kick. We manage to clear away the corner.

56': O'Sullivan with a ball up the middle to Harsanyi, he turns on his man, he's defended pretty well but he does manage to get into the penalty area and fires a shot, saved though.

62': Nikolaou with a long ball down the left, we work it into the area, they clear... Upson puts it back into the box and Kenny makes a gret run, he fires a shot, its parried away but O'Sullivan jumps on the rebound and puts it in the net! 1-2

78': We have a couple attacks that dont' really threaten. Here Collins earns us a corner but they clear it right out. We fight winning a number of headers to try to keep it in the attacking end but eventually they tackle it away from Nikolaou and counter.

84': Bell-Baggie in for Harsanyi who hasnt' been very effective today.

92': We work hard trying to build up the offense, finally generating an attack. Kenny with a good move to get us foward, up to O'Sullivan, ahead ot Bell-Baggie, he controls the ball well and sends it left to Collins. Collins is into the area, he fires a shot... but it goes over, not very well struck. Full time is called before the ball is put back in play.


Port Vale 2 : 1 Woking

This is one of the best teams in the league, no surprise that we couldn't challenge them on the road. One of their goalscorers is man of the match.

On our end, Kenny has our assist and a 7.5 rating. Joe O'Sullivan has the goal and a 7.2 rting. Upson 7.2, Collins 7.1. On the other end, Mike Williams has a poor day, 5.6 rating.


-- We remain in 10th but for the first time in a long time we're not within 3 points of a playoff spot. Hereford has 53 points in 7th, we have 47 points. We're 32 matches in, 14 to go.
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