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Old 07-01-2011, 10:42 PM   #363
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
-- We draw a home game against Rochdale (6th in League 2) for the 2nd round of the FA Cup. That should bring in some good cash and gives us a fair shot at advancing to the 3rd round.

-- Our Nov 14th game vs Oxford is rescheduled for December due to international callups. We only have one guy out, our new AML Loaner Kelly. Oxford has one player on the Northern Ireland squad(the senior team) and two on the Welsh U21 squad. Most teams in league 2 are playing today.


November 21st, 2015

Woking (10-4-2, 3rd) @ Stockport (11-3-3, 1st)


We haven't played in 2 weeks now and its given us a lot of time to think about one of the most important games we've played so far this year. We travel to Stockport, the team currently in first in the league. They've got one game on us and we're 2 points back, due to our last game being postponed. Stockport are huge 4:5 favorites at their place today, we're just 3:1 to get a win here. Stockport finished 4th in league 2 last year and 10th the year before. We've never beaten them, scoring 2 goals and allowing 7 in four matches. We get a lucky break in that their leading scorer, Ben Hutchinson (10 goals in 15 matches) is hurt and won't play today.

GK: Lynch
D: Nikolaou/Smith/V Taylor/Alcock
MC: Upson/Middleton
AM: Kelly/N'Guessan
FC: Harsanyi/Constantino

Christian Smith has recovered from his injury and is back. Kelly in at AML. Stockport run a defensive formation, a sweeper, two DCs, two DM's wide, 3 MC's and two FC's. We're goign to play a counterattacking strategy today.

3': Midfielder vincent with a yellow for Stockport.

13': N'Guessan picks up a bit of a knock and has to come off briefly. He should be ok though.

16': Stockport work the ball foward and get a through ball to one of their strikers. He's by the defense though we're closing hard right behind him. Lynch rushes out and blocks the shot perfectly. It was a clear cut chance for Stockport. We counterattack and quickly rush the ball foward to Harsanyi who gets a fairly decent look of his own but he puts it well over.

19': Another yellow for a stockport mid, Williams.

20': Long ball played up to Harsanyi off the free kick. He receives it 25 ayrds out, turns by his man and blasts a shot, just wide right.

31': Two offensive highlights for us, both ending in horrible long shots by Middleton and Upson... work it foward more guys please (I don't issue the order I just hope to see it).

37': Christian Smith with a yellow for us.

45': We see two late highlights for Stockport, both of them are crosses that lead to headers that are nowhere near the target.

HALF: This is the first game we've played this year where I'm really pleased to be tied I think, at least in league play. We have a 54'46 possession edge, both teams are being careful wtih the ball, 75% passing for both, things are pretty even. Stockport shot 7 times, just putting 1 on target, and four of those were from long range. We shoot 6 times, again only one on target with two from long range. No changes for the second half.

46': They attack out of the gate, Vince Taylor tackles one of their fowards about 25 yards out, he gets a yellow. The free kick is struck by the wall, and bends into the left corner of the net... shit. 0-1

53': We earn a free kick on our offensive end about 25 yards out. Smith shoots and its saved, corner. Corner is taken to the far post, the keeper dives out for it and is out of position but we don't win the header.

55': Attacking is what we do best, time to try it.

61': Middleton picks up a yellow for a tackle in our offensive end trying to win a ball.

64': They have it in our end, we are scrambling a bit, missing a couple tackles, finally a pass goes forward, there's a shot, their 3rd clear cut chance of the match, and Lynch makes a great save.

76': We replace 3 tired guys to try to get an attack going. O'Sullivan in for middleton, Colin in for Kelly, N'Diaye in for N'Guessan.

82': O'Sullivan makes a great tackle to win a ball in the midfield, Constantino picks it up, plays it back to O'Sullivan. He lofts a pass foward to Colin who passes it to Constantino, he gets into the penalty area but he's fighting two defenders... he's tackled hard, he's hurt.. no penalty given. He looks pretty badly hurt, he can stay in but we'll see after the match.

92': Throwin deep in their end, its in the area and they head it behind for a corner. After a couple headers and of course the corner itself the ball ends up sailing through the penalty area 4 different times before the keeper finally recovers it.

Stockport 1 : 0 Woking

No one was great on either team, they only had a couple guys above a 7.0 and we only had one. But they got their one key free kick and it won them the game.

Man of the Match: Harsanyi (7.4)


-- Constantino has a bruised thigh. He's only out 5-8 days. This is his second injury in two matches though so I'm officially worried.
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