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Old 06-25-2011, 02:41 AM   #345
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
August 15th, 2015

Woking(1-0-0) @ Lincoln(0-1-0)


Lincoln are even money favorites at their place today. We played these guys two seasons ago in our first league 2 season. They won both matches 2:0. They promoted to league 1 last year and relegated right back down.

GK: Lynch
D: Nikolaou/Smith/V Taylor/Ogogo
MC: O'Sullivan/Middleton
AM: Colin/N'Guessan
FC: D. Taylor/Constantino

Middleton will get his first action today, Harsanyi will rest after playing the last two. Standard mindset today, until proven wrong I don't want to play defensive with this formation too often.

13': We get a good corner kick, Vince Taylor is called for a foul as the ball sails through the 6 yard box though.

19': We win a ball in the midfield, Ogogo to Middleton, middleton tries a through ball to Taylor, but its deflected by the defense, the deflection falls to constantino who was rushing foward as well and he places a great shot to the left side of the net, goal! 1-0

26': We have a poor clearance, their man Stewart picks it up 30 yards out and sprints to the goal, between two of our defenders rushing to get back into the right position and he beats the keeper. 1-1

38': Corner kick, Lynch rushes out for it, we get it out of the area but not out safely... Hutchinson, a lincoln striker ends up with it about 20 yards out, he fires a shot, and something is wrong with Lynch. He is still recovering from charging out for the ball, and he I guess realizes he is horribly out of positoin, he makes it worse by taking a step out towards the attacker before trying to get back, and it leaves a huge portion of the net wide open. They nail it. 1-2

HALF: We make two huge mistakes after taking a 1-0 lead and trail 2-1. Lynch has a 5.8, O'Sullivan 5.9, Colin 5.9, some poor play here today so far. We only have 3 shots, just 1 on target, the goal obviously. They have 5 shots, 3 on target. We dominate possession today so far, 59/1, we dominate in the air, but we've just given away two goals.

47': N'Guessan gets deep down the right side and makes a very nice cross, Colin heads it, and its just over.

57': Smith with a free kick from 25 yards out, a couple yards wide.

61': Ferry in for Middleton, he's not fit enough to go 90 minutes yet. N'Diaye in for N'Guessan, he looks hurt, something happened a couple minutes ago that I didn't see.

67': V. Taylor with a ball forward from the midfield line, O'Sullivan chips it into the area from 40 yards out, Constantino has a little space, he shows a great first touch, controls, turns and shoots and its by the keeper!! 2-2

72': We give up a near point blank shot after a through ball, Lynch with the stop, corner comes to nothing.

73': After clearing that last corner, there's a long ball into space. Constantino's superior speed shows. He gets to the ball first, sprints toward sthe area, beats one defender, a second defender gets the ball loose but doesn't clear. Constantino sticks with it, rushes to the ball and pokes it into the net!!!! An INCREDIBLE individual effort!!!! That's a hat trick, and 5 goals in 2 matches. 3-2

82': We control the ball on the offensive end, a nice long ball to get the attack going by Ferry, Colin earns us a corner, but we can't do anything with ti.

85': Lynch clears a ball out, they recover it naer midfield and send a long ball foward, Lynch is rushing back into position, he turns around and charges the attacker who has the ball... shot... Lynch dives and makes a great save!

87': Lincoln tries the offside trap, Constantino beats it and Ferry gets a nice through ball to him, he gets into the area, no one is catching him if he gets space, but the keeper makes the save this time.

90': Nikolaou is slow to get to a long ball and has to put it behind for a corner. N'Diaye makes a nice tackle after the corner to clear the danger. They do get a throwin, O'Sullivan commits a foul as they try to build up the attack, free kick from 30 yards out. The wall blocks it and it goes behind for another corner. The corner is taken well, they get a header, and its inches over. WHEW. On the play, Ferry is hurt.

That was their last chance. We should have shown a more dominant win today but we made it exciting!

Lincoln 2 : 3 Woking

We only shot 9 times, but again today Constantino is deadly, he manages a hat trick. Lincoln shoots 12 times, Lynch made a couple nice plays in the 2nd half to hold them to 2 goals.

Obviously Constantino is man of the match with 3 goals and a 9.5 rating. Assists from Ferry (6.9), O'Sullivan (6.9) and Middleton (6.8). Lynch never did get his rating up, finishing with an awful 5.8. Ogogo (7.0) and Taylor (7.4) put up the only other solid numbers after Constantino.


Injury Update

AMR Dany N'Guessan twisted his knee today and is out 2-3 weeks. MC Simon Ferry "sustained a bruised head" and is out 5-8 days.



-- We draw League 1 side Dag & Red for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy South 1st round. Dag & Red avoided relegation by 6 points last year out of league 1, we have a little better chance of beating them than Swindon. Its a road game though.
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