Chandlers Ford Youth 3-2 Crofton Saints B
Mid Solent Under-15 B Division – 4th October 2008
Lineup: Kane Kellaway, Jake Beattie, Michael Sawbridge, Josh Harrigan ©, David Kilcoyne, Michael Wall, Tom Ashton, Ahmed Sfagsi, Alex Evens, Zak Pickett, Jozef Montigue
Subs: James Parsonage, Kelvin Bagot, Miles Hodge, Ryan Chinn, Liam Godfrey
CFY moved up to fifth place in the table with games in hand, as Ford fought their way back from a goal down to go on to secure the three points with a dramatic, last minute winner.
In the first half Chandlers Ford amounted a good deal of pressure on the Crofton goal, captain Josh Harrigan coming close from a corner early on, as well as David Kilcoyne bursting forward into the box and having a left-footed shot saved.
The one way traffic continued as the Blues dominated the opening twenty five minutes, in particular in the midfield area and a tight back line that were pushed up to the half way line to ensure even more pressure on the visitors, who were camped inside their own half.
Michael Wall played a great ball through to Zak Pickett down the right hand side. Though Pickett had timed his run extremely well, he shot across the goalkeeper from the edge of the area and fired wide of the post.
Zak also came close a while later with a lobbed effort that was not all that far away.
Finally the breakthrough came with five minutes of the half to play. Quick thinking from Wall, who had done well to win the corner in the first place, saw him play the set piece short to Michael Sawbridge who had come looking for the ball to the right of goal. The centre half cut in and got the ball on to his favoured left foot where he unleashed an unstoppable strike into the top corner. A cracking effort from Michael and a well deserved lead after a good half of football.
HALF TIME: CFY 1-0 Crofton Saints B
Crofton, who had very rarely troubled Kane up to this point and had been mere spectators at times, came out of the blocks extremely quickly and were very fired up.
Ford conceded the equaliser just a minute in, as the Saints striker was given time and space to pull the trigger in the area and despite Kane's best efforts to keep it out there was too much power on it and the ball flew into the back of the net.
Richard and Neil's side had immediately responded negatively to this set back and let in another just two minutes later. Crofton broke quickly down the left and when the cross came in the ball was turned in at the near post.
When Kelvin came on to replace Kane, he made one absolutely brilliant stop to prevent the visitors from going further ahead. When Crofton had got in behind the CFY defence, Kelvin came to the rescue with a powerful header rushing out of his area to make a vital interception.
Now a goal behind, Ford had to raise their game to try and find their rhythm once more.
It looked as though they had started well in their response when a succession of corner kicks led to a number of attempts on goal, one in particular that saw Jozef Montigue slam the ball towards goal which sparked some debate as to whether it crossed the line.
The referee could not be 100% sure and so the 'goal' did not stand – where's the goal line technology?! Play continued, as the Crofton defender quickly scrambled it away only for Joe to follow up and hit straight into the side netting.
With this decision going against them, Ford seemed to have that greater desire to do themselves justice and played with a lot more urgency, beginning to restore some of that confidence that was shown in the first half.
It paid off as substitute Liam Godfrey whipped in a good cross for Montigue to bring down, who was then pushed in the chest with both hands leaving the referee, who was two yards away from the incident, little choice but to award the penalty kick.
Keeping a very cool head, Jake Beattie stepped up and made no mistake from 12 yards firing to the keeper's right and scoring the all important equalising goal.
Just when it was looking as though the game would end in a draw, Michael Wall popped up with the winning goal as he ran through before lobbing the ball neatly over the keeper's head to wrap up a man of the match winning performance for the second week in a row and a win for the team against one of the stronger sides in this division.
Man of the match: Michael Wall
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