Chandlers Ford 2-9 Bridgemary

CHANDLERS FORD 2-9 BRIDGEMARY

19.2.05 – LEAGUE

Chandlers Ford were at the disadvantage of only having a bare eleven players to begin this league encounter against a full strength Bridgemary side. It was the visitors who were quickest out of the blocks and they found themselves 3 goals up within the first five minutes as Chandlers Ford’s defence barely had time to settle themselves into the match.

This was a heavy blow that Chandlers Ford had to struggle with but they never really recovered from conceding those early goals. However they didn’t give up, and they managed to string a few passes together and began to create chances for the front men.

Matt Lucas pulled a goal back with a good finish from a tight angle in the box, which saw the ball being nestled into the top left hand corner of the goal. It wasn’t too long before they were within one goal of Bridgemary. Jozef Montigue went on a dazzling run as he held off a number of tackles and kept his composure as he rounded the keeper and side footed the ball into an empty net.

Just before half time Bridgemary began to dominate once more as they piled on the pressure and forced two consecutive, brilliant saves out of Lee Robertson. From the resulting corner Bridgemary increased their lead with another good goal as the Chandlers Ford players failed to clear the ball.

HALF TIME – CFY 2-4 Bridgemary

Straightaway in the second half Chandlers Ford were on the attack as Sabri Elmasri ran through on goal and took the ball past the keeper but instead of shooting he spotted the run of Michael Wall and laid it off to him, giving the keeper a chance to get back on his goal line and recover from his mistake.

Having gone down to nine men there was only going to be one winner – Bridgemary. The visitors capitalised and took advantage of the extra players by making Chandlers Ford work really hard to get the ball.

Bridgemary front men Daniel Woodward and Nathan Hines helped fire in another five goals for the visitors without reply from Chandlers Ford Youth. But full credit must go to the home side for the way they never gave up and played right to the end. Despite conceding a hatful of goals they played some good football and caused problems for the Bridgemary defence and perhaps they may have scored a few more on another day but it wasn’t to be.

FULL TIME – CFY 2-9 Bridgemary