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Old 06-30-2011, 12:58 AM   #361
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
-- Our game against Hereford coming up is going to be "fan day", kids get in half price!

-- Kevin Lynch, Zak Middleton and Constantino are all selected to the League 2 team of the week.

-- The draw for teh first round of the FA Cup was today. We're going on the road, but for once we're getting a lower level opponent. We'll play morecambe from the BS Premier league.

injury update

Christian Smith is hurt in training and will miss the next 2 weeks.

October 31st, 2015

Hereford(5-4-6, 13th) @ Woking(9-4-2, 2nd)


We're 1-2-1 against these guys. The home team won 2:0 both times last year. We're even money favorites today, Hereford is 11:5.

GK: Lynch
D: Nikolaou/Williams/V Taylor/Alcock
MC: O'Sullivan/Upson
AM: Kelly/N'Guessan
FC: Harsanyi/Constantino

Williams is in for the injured Smith. Upson gives Middleton a day off, and Kelly is in at AML. We clearly attack today.

5': We build up immediately, O'Sullivan makes a run into the area, he's tackled and goes down, but no foul is called. We get a corner but can't convert.

10': O'Sullivan with another run into the area, he shoots this time but its saved.

14': Another decent look, N'guessan with a great steal deep in our offensive end, he plays a cross in, Kelly controls it and shoots but its saved.

26': We allow two corners but they still haven't managed a shot, we clear well.

33': Nikolaou is well forward after some buildup, he play a cross to the far end of the 6 yard box, N'Guessan heads it just over.

38': again.. after a free kick Nikolaou is out wide, crosses in, N'Guessan heads it over.

43': O'Sullivan plays a great ball into the left side of the area, Kelly is there, he has our first clear cut chance but puts it right at the keeper.

44': We get a throwin, its taken to Upson, he crosses, Constantino gets his head on it, it hits the right post and bounces in! 1-0

HALF: We shoot 9 times, Hereford shoots once, I only see one of them in a highlight at the very end of the half. We're dominating in the air and hitting our crosses well, though that's just lead to a ton of headers over for the most part... well that and our goal.

50': N'Guessan with a nice run, he gets it to O'Sullivan in the area, the ball is tackled away, we want a penalty again but its just a corner, we can't do anything with it.

56': Hereford's righ defender is hurt. We get the ball to Kelly and he just sprints down the left side, their defender can do nothing... he plays a good cross but Constantino heads it wildly wide and high.

63': N'Guessan is hurt and hobbled a bit. He'll be ok I think.

64': Constantino picks up a yellow.

67': They have a free kick from deep in their end... the keeper takes it, one of their fowards heads it from about 20 yards out, its a high lofting header and Lynch wasn't quite ready for that, it goes over his head and into the empty net. DOH! 1-1

72': Kelly with another solid cross, Harsanyi gets his head to it and puts it just over.

74': Paterson in for Harsanyi, Middleton in for O'Sullivan

86': We work the ball foward after a free kick, its played into the area to N'Guessan, he tries a little cross to center it, its deflected but stays in the area, Constantino is the first to it and the keeper is out of position after the deflection, Constantino puts it in easily!

88': they have a cross and header that Lynch is forced to save. He does so pretty easily. We drop back to defend the last couple minutes away.

90': they have a throwin deep in our area. We clear one crossing attempt and a second attack tackle it behind for a corner. We get it out of there after that. We counter attack, N'Guessan plays a long ball foward, Constantino runs onto it and sprints into the penalty area ahead of the defense, he shoots, its saved but not held by the keeper, and Ed Upson is there for the followup, putting the ball into the open net as the keeper tries to recover!! 3-1

Woking 3 : 1 Hereford

A fluke goal made it a bit of a scare but we come up big in the final 20 minutes to put the game away. We really put the pressure on them today, 16 shots, 8 on target compared to just 8 shots for Hereford.

Man of the Match: Ed Upson(9.0)
Goals: Constantino 2 (8.8), Upson
Assists: Upson, Constantino, N'Guessan (8.6)
Notables: Alcock (7.0), V. Taylor(7.6)


-- We draw 5451 fans for Fan Day, not a new record I don't think but a very nice number.

-- 16 games in, about 1/3 of the way through the season, and we're in first place by a point. We have 40 goals, the next highest scoring team has 26. We have a +21 goal differential. Over half the league, 14 teams, haven't even scored 21 times yet. There's a long long way to go and an injury to Constantino would be devastating, but we're thrilled with where we are right now.
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