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Old 08-03-2010, 01:51 AM   #139
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
February 27th, 2013

FA Trophy Fourth Round Replay

Cheltenham @ Woking


Perhaps I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised we are underdogs against Cheltenham at home. They're 6:4 favorites.

Today's lineup:

GK: Lynch
DEF: Miquel/Thomas/Fenton/Pulis
MC: Sloma/Arter
AM: Bennett/Ademola
ST: Harsanyi/Main


Attacking from the outset in this one.

8': Miquel with a nice tackle to keep a guy from an open look in our area.

18': Strong attack for us, threatening multiple times... a cross from Pulis into the area, a header is saved, Bennett to the rebound but he's way up at the left end line and his attempt is off the post. A clear cut chance soon after from Main is saved.

20': Harsanyi with a great through ball to Main, he strikes it, blocked by the keeper, but Ademola pounces on the rebound and puts it in! 1-0

25': Bennett down the left sideline, he feeds Sloma who puts the ball forward, Bennett runs on to it, clear cut strike from him 10 yards out... right at the keeper.

35': Main has picked up a knock... he's showing as injured, down to 73%.

HALF: We control 55% of the possession, complete 73% of our passes, and take 10 shots to their 2.

47': Main with a beautiful through ball between two defenders that Bennett runs on to in the area... its our 4th clear cut chance. Bennett though, and this is becoming a pattern, simply runs too damn far with the ball before shooting and hands it to the keeper.

52': Harsanyi with some serious hustle.. a long ball is played forward, Harsanyi outruns the defense, controls the ball o nthe right side of the area, lofts a ball into the 6 yard box and Main heads it in! 2-0

54': I'm looking at subs and I see blinking lights, uhoh. WHOA. throw-in for cheltenham, a shot is taken from... 20 yards away all the way on the right edge of the penalty area, its a bending ball with some force and Lynch just doesn't get to it. Amazing (lucky?) strike. 2-1

60': Pulis goes down on a sliding tackle and needs "lengthy treatment" *sighs*

61': A long ball sets up a break for Cheltenham, a centering pass leaves a man one on one with Lynch... shot is taken, SAVE!

66': Herd in for Sloma, Subotic for Main. We'll check main's injury after the match.

70': Ademola in the right palce at the right time again! Herd with a great ball forward to bennett, who ones again strikes it right at the keeper, its saved but not held... it falls to Ademola and he puts it in! 3-1

We defend and don't let anything happen the rest of the way.

Woking 3 : Cheltenham 1

We took 18 shots, 9 on target, an astounding 5 clear cut chances. They took 7 shots, 2 on target. A great performance.

Ademola scores 2 goals and is man of the match with a 9.0 rating. The other goal comes form Main, he has 1 goal/1 ast for a 7.4 rating. Other assists from Harsanyi(7.6) and Bennett (6.9).

Elsewhere: Pulis (7.0), Miquel (7.1), and Arter(7.1).



We'll play Accrington in the FA Trophy Semifinals. The draw put us at home but its a 2 leg semi, we're home for leg 1.



Injury Update

Main will be out for 4 weeks with a thigh strain he picked up in today's match. Sole has been very little used lately, he'll see more time now in rotation with Subotic and Harsanyi the rest of the way.

Two matches are re-arranged for the semis. March will be a lot busier for us now. Its pretty important to lock up this league title as early as possible.
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