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Harsanyi and Arter are both named in the BSP team of the week.
August 16th, 2011
Histon (0-1-2, 20th) @ Woking (3-0-0, 1st)
We're very slight favorites at home today. We're 0-1-1 lifetime against Histon, they finished 13th in the BS Premier last year.
4 matches in 11 days now... a grueling start for everyone to kick off the season. Cullen and Arter start over Pulis and Sole, fatigue issues. Sam Sloma is back from injury and available off the bench, he's not match fit yet. If I can, I'll work him in just to run around some.
Histon looks set to play a very defensive 4-1-4-1 formation. Their fitness is much worse than ours it seems.
10': I love O'Sullivan. Even with 10 men defending he puts the ball in the perfect spot for Cullen. Cullen with a nice move to make a little space, beats the keeper! 1-0
30': Arter is down after a hard challenge... but he's still listed at 75% fitness, hopefully he's fine.
33': Ricketts with a long throw, O'Sullivan with a great through ball for German who strikes it past the keeper! 2-0
46': Their best midfielder, Bosner, makes a good run down the left side after a free kick, he gets a cross into the box and their striker heads it home past Lynch. 2-1
HALF: The late goal to keep this interesting was disappointing. Histon mainly went for long balls and a couple times we committed fouls in their half going for headers, allowing them to get a couple attacks, the last one resulting in the goal. still, we are way more fit than they, and they should be too tired to generate anything else I hope.
Pulis in for the injured Arter at the half. It seems Arter can still go but why risk it.
48': Ademola with a nice cross, German gets a head on it from very close range but right at the keeper. Its listed as a Clear Cut chance that we didn't finish, that's always disappointing.
52': German's speed draws a yellow card, a bad trip by defender Holden as German went flying by him.
57': Fenton gets beat on a long ball, commits a foul and draws a yellow. There's a free kick near our penalty area, but it comes to nothing.
67': Sloma is in for a tired Antonio German.
71': Anane in for a tired Ricketts, and we are done with subs for the day.
79': After a clearance, Histon's foward tried to pass the ball back to a defender. It was way wide, Harsanyi ran on to the stray ball and struck it past the keeper for an easy gift goal! 3-1
Woking 3 : 1 Histon
In a game where the opponent was content to let us control possession and just fire long balls whenever they could, its no surprise that Joe O'Sullivan dominated the match. He has 2 assists and a 9.0 rating and is the clear man of the match.
Our 3 goal scorers each put up nice ratings, German(7.3), Cullen (7.1) and Harsanyi (7.0). Ademola(7.1) and Thomas(7.2) are noteworthy as well. No one really played poorly, though Fenton had a couple mistakes/fouls that gave Histon some chances.
We're 4-0-0 with 10 goals and just 2 against. Cheltenham is the other team to watch early, they've scored 7 and not allowed a single goal yet.
We play Gateshead (11th currently) in 4 days time before finally earning a little rest with a week off.
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